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Example sentences for "overpassed"

Lexicographically close words:
overmuch; overnight; overo; overpaid; overpass; overpassing; overplus; overpopulated; overpopulation; overpower
  1. So she excelled the folk of her time and overpassed her peers;[FN#53] and the sons of the kings heard of her and all of them desired to look upon her.

  2. She was of him as tenderly loved as ever daughter of father, and knowing not, by reason of this his tender love for her, how to part with her, he married her not till she had long overpassed the age when she should have had a husband.

  3. But, in sooth, the constraint I suffered almost overpassed my strength.

  4. The grey, gaunt and haggard, but their colours with them, overpassed the dead and wounded, now choking the sunken road.

  5. The blue, checked a moment by that last volley, now poured down into the sunken road, overpassed the thick ranks of the dead and wounded, mounted, and swept on in a counter charge.

  6. The missile came toward the battery, overpassed it, and exploded above the wood.

  7. In consequence of this error, they overpassed Port Desire to the south, so as to miss the right channel, and came into a crooked channel, where they had four and a half fathoms water at full sea, and only fourteen feet at low water.

  8. He gave notice to the English admiral of a certain ship being in the harbour of St Jago, which they had overpassed six leagues.

  9. The blue overpassed the ruined, almost obliterated line of the rail fence, came on over the sedge.

  10. It overpassed the seamed floor and reached the steep other side of the excavation.

  11. Who could longer live cooped up in a static world, when the old barriers were so being overpassed and new continents were inviting adventure, settlement, and social experiment hitherto untried?

  12. Stories of old-time miracles are overpassed in our modern days.

  13. Joan and her chief captain rode on ahead, Von Orseln glancing keenly about him, and Joan riding free and careless, as in the old days when she overpassed the hills to drive a prey from the lands of her father's enemies.

  14. Then my son, whom, not knowing, you had taken pity upon and raised to honour, and who is now your faithful servant, sent a secret messenger that you would come to abide secretly with me till a certain dark day had overpassed in Kernsberg.

  15. But the men of Hohenstein being so few, and those of Courtland with their allies so many, the river was overpassed both above and below the fords.


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