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Definition of Overnighted
1. overnight [v] - See also: overnight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overnighted
Literary usage of Overnighted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1903)
"In fact this chapter strikes us as by far the most lucid and informing in the book.
Elsewhere the author seems to be overnighted by his learning. ..."
2. The Addresses and Journal of Proceedings of the National Educational Association by National Educational Association (U.S.) (1881)
"No, I answer; for these changes in the eye must forever remain unchanged, but we
can correct the defect in the overnighted eye, in so far as the unpleasant ..."
3. The Woful History of the Unfortunate Eudoxia: First Consort of the Czar by Carl Theodor von Unlanski, John Kortz, K. F. W. Fleischer (1816)
"He starts his story at the municipal lodging- house, where the homeless and the
destitute are overnighted. He scans the want-ad, columns of a local daily, ..."
4. A Roumanian Diary: 1915, 1916, 1917 by Dorothy Katherine (Barclay) Kennard (1917)
"... dinner eaten off rugs spread on the snow, and danced to music made by villagers
in a wooden hut built to shelter travellers overnighted on the peak. ..."
5. Alliance Adrift by Yoichi Funabashi (1999)
"Kurt Campbell had landed at the New Kansai International Airport from Seoul,
traveled to Hiroshima by bullet train, and overnighted in Kure. ..."
6. Romantic Weekends in Texas by Mary Lu Abbott (2003)
"... this two-story Greek Revival building was the stagecoach stop where travelers
overnighted on their way between Houston and Austin or Waco. ..."
7. Vagabonding Down the Andes: Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot by Harry Alverson Franck (1917)
"At sunrise thrice a week most of the town turns out to watch the trains that
have " overnighted " here leave for Quito and Guayaquil respectively; ..."
8. How to Syndicate Manuscripts: In the Day's Work and Play of the Women and by Felix John Koch (1922)
"He starts his story at the municipal lodging- house, where the homeless and the
destitute are overnighted. He scans the want-ad, columns of a local daily, ..."
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