oversoon

Example Sentences

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It was oversoon, she thought, for her King to patronize her.

From Trusia A Princess of Krovitch by Brinton, Davis

Listen, Christian: I knew this day must come—though it seems oversoon to me—and I was resolved that so soon as you should refuse any confession to me, I—I—must make confession to you.'

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

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

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)

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