Lexicographical Neighbors of Overwide
Literary usage of Overwide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1904)
"Our doorways that, in time of fear, We opened overwide Shall softly close from
year to year Till all be purified; For though no fluttering fan be heard Nor ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"I. An overwide space between printed words; a PIGEON-HOLE (qv). Set also RAT, subs.
I. RATIONS, subs, (military and naval). —A flogging. ..."
3. History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour by Alfred Guy L'Estrange (1878)
"Our conclusions will thus be coextensive with our knowledge, rather than with
our wishes, incomplete and overwide rather than illogical. ..."
4. Teaching the Language-arts: Speech, Reading, Composition by Burke Aaron Hinsdale (1898)
"Nothing but fuller experience can correct the hasty and overwide generalizations
that are so characteristic of young and immature minds. But, on the whole, ..."
5. Public Utility Rates: A Discussion of the Principles and Practice Underlying by Harry Barker (1917)
"There has not been as much study of classifying water customers as there has been
in electricity supply so that some hardships of overwide averaging are ..."
6. Railroad Freight Transportation by Leonor Fresnel Loree (1922)
"... double sags frequently encountered in passing over bottoms not overwide with
a stream in the center. These are the frequent causes of "break-in-twos. ..."
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