oversoon

Example Sentences

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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

The youth and vigour of his body set him on his feet oversoon, while all the soundness his spirit had gained was trembling for its weakness, fear for its cowardice, shame for its shame.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

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

From Trusia A Princess of Krovitch by Brinton, Davis

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

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