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Definition of Oversleeping
1. oversleep [v] - See also: oversleep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oversleeping
Literary usage of Oversleeping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Amor Vitaque: A Little Book of Speculation in Lyric, Ballad and Omargram by John Baker Opdycke (1912)
"Fancy the luxury of oversleeping the rent even once in a life-time. It is said
that they are not given in marriage in heaven. ..."
2. The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1881)
"If you please, ma'am, I can't make Miss Majendie hear. She must be oversleeping
herself, and Miss Violet too." "oversleeping themselves at this time of clay ..."
3. The Gift of Sleep by Bolton Hall (1911)
"It follows that oversleeping inclines to dullness and stupidity. ... The oversleeping
may come to resemble the hibernation of some animals. ..."
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