Lexicographical Neighbors of Overfrank
Literary usage of Overfrank
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... and her efforts to acclimatize herself in the fashionable atmosphere of London
explain, without justifying, the overfrank avowal of Lady Cork : " I like ..."
2. La Follette's Autobiography: A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences by Robert Marion La Follette (1913)
"A limited number of the volumes giving these proceedings were issued, but, since Mr.
Reynolds' overfrank statement has been quoted publicly, I am informed ..."
3. Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life by George Gordon Byron Byron, Thomas Moore (1833)
"... there was still, in the openness and overfrank- ness of his nature, and that
indulgence of impulse with which he gave utterance to, if not acted upon, ..."
4. Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys (1905)
"... the book a joy to the lovers o( facetiae have assumed an exaggerated importance
in nearly all the attempts towards a psychology of the overfrank author. ..."
5. Volleys from a Non-combatant by William Roscoe Thayer (1919)
"Now, just as in a family feud, perhaps overfrank criticisms wound the sensitive
members without causing overt hostility, so this attitude of the people of ..."
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