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Overbrim, ō-vėr-brim′, v.t. to fill to overflowing.—v.i. to be so full as to overflow.—adj.

And hath children given: When the soft heads overbrim The brown nests; then thank ye Him In the clouds of heaven.

The task of keeping it all from her mother was a great daily strain, and the secret had to overbrim for the edification of Lazarus.

A gentle rivulet carries the overbrim away.

Overbrim and overflow, If your own heart you would know; For the spirit born to bless Lives but in its own excess.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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