overbrim

Example Sentences

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Speak on!" she bade, "my thirsty heart is held To catch your words, as lillies catch the dew— So eager that it fain would overbrim With the fresh gathering.

From The Arctic Queen by Unknown

It seemed as if he held his heart in his hands, like a full cup that the least motion might overbrim.

From The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith

He talks of his old friends who have taken their departure before him with a perfect simplicity, while I have seen the tears gather and suddenly overbrim his eyes.

From The Silent Isle by Benson, Arthur Christopher

The task of keeping it all from her mother was a great daily strain, and the secret had to overbrim for the edification of Lazarus.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

And hath children given: When the soft heads overbrim The brown nests; then thank ye Him In the clouds of heaven.

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)