Lexicographical Neighbors of Overgot
Literary usage of Overgot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Railway Management at Stations by Edmund B. Ivatts (1898)
"Some companies hold their clerks responsible to account for the actual amount of
the fares on tickets sold, and ignore the question of overgot and ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"... part, overgot. Said of hay which is too much dried before being carried.
O'ER-LAY, v. to kill by lying upon, as drunken women sometimes kill their ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... six hours hard riding through wild places, I overgot them a little before
night, near an old ill-favoured castle, the place where I perceived they meant ..."
4. The Dial by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1842)
"Pain overgot gives peace, as death does Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven
speak of peace. Peace hath more might than war; high brows are calm; ..."
5. A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, John F. Addington (1855)
"Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st bo. Do my words
trouble thee ? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives ..."
6. A Treatise on Copyhold, Customary Freehold, and Ancient Demesne Tenure: With by John Scriven, Henry Stalman (1846)
"This difficulty was overgot in the above instance, by joining the trustees (the
tenants to the lord) in the lease with the tenant for life and the feme ..."
7. A history of British birds by Francis Orpen Morris (1852)
"... but in process of time, a new family arrived, and for their sakes she overgot
the injury, made up the quarrel, which, as it takes two parties to make, ..."
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