Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlet
Literary usage of Overlet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland: Adapted to the New Poor-law (1846)
"Taking a circle of 10 or 12 miles round Waterford," says Mr. Inglis, "the large
properties are not so much overlet as the smaller. ..."
2. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"... three of my best featherbeds with their bolsters; 2d, the best pair of blankets
of fustian, my best ••overlet of tapestry, and my quilt of yellow Turkey ..."
3. Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1885)
"... for this coppice might be a mile cross; and though the bottom was sound enough,
being a overlet of flints upon a bed of chalk, the underwood was too igh ..."
4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1800)
"... was overlet near the mouth of the harbour, by which the rowers, confiding of
four men, were precipitated into the ..."
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