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Definition of Overstrides
1. overstride [v] - See also: overstride
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overstrides
Literary usage of Overstrides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"And the Great Protector, instead of his vast bulk lying upon the earth, overstrides
others, and stands like a ..."
2. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato (1871)
"And the Great Protector, instead of his vast bulk lying upon the earth, overstrides
others, and stands like a colossus in the chariot of State, a full-blown ..."
3. The Dialogues of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1907)
"And the Great Protector, instead of his vast bulk ying upon the earth, overstrides
others, and stands like a colossus in the chariot of State, a full-blown ..."
4. The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next: With Illustrative Narrations by Robert Dale Owen (1872)
"... could have been one of the elect; but Calvin overstrides the difficulty,
telling us : "It ought not to be doubted that Jacob was ing-rafted, ..."
5. Classic Tales by Famous Authors by Frederick Brigham De Berard (1905)
"... and o'er him clashed his gear, And dying there his bloody mouth sought out
the foeman's sod: Whom Turnus overstrides and says: "Harken, Arcadians, ..."
6. Dialogues of Plato by Plato (1899)
"And the Great Protector, instead of his vast bulk lying upon the earth, overstrides
others, and stands like a colossus in the chariot of State, a full-blown ..."
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