oversoon

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Trusia A Princess of Krovitch by Brinton, Davis

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