oversoon

Example Sentences

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Alan did not mean to be oversoon in going back to Four Winds, but three days later a book came to him which Captain Anthony had expressed a wish to see.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

PRE-ISLAMIC POETRY116 Full-armed against me stood One feared of fighting men: He fled not oversoon Nor let himself be ta'en.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold

What sylvan this, and what the stranger whim  That lured him here this golden afternoon;  Ways where the dusk has fallen oversoon In the deep canyon, torrentless and grim?

From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

One golden day when dawn shall blush to noon And noon incline to dark, and, oversoon, My joy lie buried ’neath a rounded moon.

From Fires of Driftwood by Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Not there doth Ayesha linger,—rune by rune Spelling the scriptures of a people banned,— The world is disenchanted! oversoon Shall Europe send her spies through all the land!

From He by Pollock, Walter Herries