Either Kelpie had waked too soon, or he had overslept himself: she was kicking furiously.
Hence it came that he was weary, and overslept himself the next day--but it was no great matter; he had yet time enough.
It was exactly what he would have liked to have done himself, if only he had thought of it first, and hadn't gone and overslept himself.
Well, I overslept myself, and it was nearly half-past four before I awoke.
He waved aside her timid excuse that she had oversleptherself after a sleepless night, and had finished dressing but the moment before he found her in the garden.
Florian now received so many orders that he found no rest by day or night, and when the day of the bel-wether dance came he overslept the morning service.
I said, "I got frightened with a horrible dream, and lay awake so long afterwards that when I did sleep, I overslept myself.
So run downstairs, and tell them why I had overslept myself, but not a word to anyone about what I have told you.
The first night after I sent him to his own bed, he overslept himself.
I laid my head down sidewise on the palm of my hand, shut my eyes, snored vociferously, and explained to him in Russian that I had overslept myself.
Ever since I have been here we have been like the man, who, with a long day's work before him, overslept himself and so was late for everything all day.
Forestier-Walker on 20th November that "Ever since I have been here we have been like the man who, with a long day's work before him, overslept himself and so was late for everything all day.
For the first time in I know not how many years, she overslept the hour of mass.
You can imagine how glad I should have been to hear something more about yesterday evening, but I made no objection when she wished to go to the chapel at once, because she had overslept the hour of mass.
Felix and Lance had just come downstairs, rather ashamed of having overslept themselves, and Mr. Audley came in and begged for a cup of tea.
I quite overslept myself," I replied; then I remembered my thought of the last night.
I asked if it was late--if I had overslept myself.
But it was some time before Mrs. Drabdump was sufficiently calm to explain that, though she had overslept herself, and though it would have been all the same anyhow, she had come up to time.
I overslept myself, and the train had left when I reached the depot.
Nan overslept herself, and was rather late the next morning; but as she entered the parlor, with an exclamation of penitence for her tardiness, she found her little speech was addressed to the empty walls.
But Dulce was an unselfish little soul, and kept all these thoughts to herself, and dressed herself quickly; for she had overslept herself, and Phillis had long been downstairs.
Somehow or other, that night the potter and his wife overslept themselves.
In these circumstances he overslept himself, and it was eleven o'clock before he found himself in the hotel coffee-room, waiting for his breakfast.
It was late when Mr. Brudenell fell asleep--so late that he overslept himself in the morning.
He went home, but overslept himself, and had to dress in a hurry.
They had retired late and weary the night before, and as a natural consequence had overslept their usual time for rising.
He was still striding up and down the room, when Harry, who had overslept himself as usual, came down to breakfast.
He had never forgotten a morning on which he had overslept himself, and the mortification he had felt at the Doctor's blandly polite but cutting reception of his apologies.
But it was some time before Mrs. Drabdump was sufficiently calm to explain that though she had overslept herself, and though it would have been all the same anyhow, she had come up to time.
And perhaps he might have overslept now and then had he not had a never-failing alarm clock to arouse him.
He reflected that since it was long past corn-planting time, it really made no difference to him whether Farmer Green overslept or not.
The next morning Joanna overslept herself, in consequence of a restless hour during the first part of the night.
Bertie was late for breakfast, and came down apologising for having overslept himself.
The dog began barking again, and seemed anxious to get out of the courtyard to which he was confined; but the servant gradually appeased him--went to bed, and somewhat overslept himself.
Sophy overslept herself: her room was to the west; the morning beams did not reach its windows; and the cottage without children woke up to labour noiseless and still.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overslept" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
