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He is foolishly oversanguine who predicts an easy victory over such a people, intrenched amidst mountains and hills.

From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by Beatty, John

The inventor, the promoter, the salesman, and the oversanguine manager do not always foresee such things.

From Industrial Progress and Human Economics by Hartness, James

Suppose you are by nature rather oversanguine or overdespondent, and you make no genuine attempt to evolve that nature into poise.

From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.

It can not be an oversanguine estimate to predict that in less than ten years, of which one-half have elapsed, the receipts will have been more than doubled.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 2, part 2: John Quincy Adams by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

She suspected that he, like all reformers, was oversanguine, demanding the work of three generations from one, and expecting a single man to give the result of a thousand.

From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne