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Definition of Overslaughs
1. overslaugh [v] - See also: overslaugh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overslaughs
Literary usage of Overslaughs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1904)
"... the age of thirteen or fourteen; but then there comes a diminution often a
cessation of their mental development. The physical overslaughs the psychical ..."
2. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"... to white children 'up to the teen or fourteen ; but then there comes on, often
a cessation, of their mental t. The physical overslaughs the psychi- ey ..."
3. Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel Garrison Brinton (1890)
"The physical overslaughs the psychical, and they turn away from the pursuit ot
culture. They are unwilling to undertake, they arc unequal to, ..."
4. The Methodist Review (1877)
"And thus at the present moment it is popery and whisky, Kome and rum, which
overslaughs the temperate, intelligent native population of the great State of ..."
5. The Annals of Albany by Joel Munsell (1852)
"There are a variety of channels among those beds of sand called the overslaughs,
and the main channel shifts almost every year. The remedy is easy: block up ..."
6. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct by Charles King (1843)
"... all overslaughs and bars will be removed by the down current, and any vessel
capable of entering the harbor of New York, may proceed to Albany and Troy ..."
7. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct by Charles King (1843)
"That by raising the water in the city above said dam to the height he proposes,
all overslaughs and bars will be removed by the down current, and any vessel ..."
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