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Definition of Overflies
1. overfly [v] - See also: overfly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overflies
Literary usage of Overflies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"overflies ["The Bard"] all other English lyrics like an eagle. ... It was the
prevailing blast of Gray's trumpet that more than anything else called men ..."
2. My Study Windows by James Russell Lowell (1913)
"... debt as the inspirer of Gray, whose " Progress of Poesy," in reach, variety,
and loftiness of poise, overflies all other English lyrics like an eagle. ..."
3. My Study Windows by James Russell Lowell (1876)
"... debt as the inspirer of Gray, whose " Progress of Poesy," in reach, variety,
and loftiness of poise, overflies all other English lyrics like an eagle. ..."
4. English Lyrical Poetry from Its Origins to the Present Time by Edward Bliss Reed (1912)
"... remote from life and it is difficult to understand how Lowell could assert
that "The Progress of Poesy overflies all other English lyrics like an eagle. ..."
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