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The boy oversees some fighting among the fowls of the hill-farm, where they still keep the old hawk-colored breed -- a breed that fights to the death -- not being over-partial as yet to Shanghais that won't lay and

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

His successors, envious of clerical authority and over-partial to commercial interests, obtained from the king a mitigated legislation.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

"I'm not over-partial to that form of argument," said he.

The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

He appeared to have a sort of spite against handsome men and women, as if nature had been over-partial to them in comparison with others.

Cambridge Sketches Frank Preston Stearns 1881

"I suppose because he isn't over-partial to our company."

Julian Home 1867

Nothing perhaps speaks such volumes as the _positive fact_ of her manners getting _quite changed_ within a year's time, and that to the openly pronounced satisfaction of the very fastidious and not over-partial Regent.

The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860

The atrocities committed during the fury of the French Revolution had so entirely cured him of his predilection for the popular part of our Government, that he could not resist the opportunity, however ill-timed, of casting a slur on this nobleman, who was accused of being over-partial to it.

Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846

From first to last I saw, in the friends who crowded round me in America, old readers, over-grateful and over-partial perhaps, to whom I had happily been the means of furnishing pleasure and entertainment; not a vulgar herd who would flatter and cajole a stranger into turning with closed eyes from all the blemishes of the nation, and into chaunting its praises with the discrimination of a street ballad-singer.

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844

Lest I be thought over-partial, I will quote an extract from a newspaper letter describing my cousin to the readers of the New Orleans Crescent (which gives also a fair idea of the liberality of praiseful epithet bestowed by

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

"Excuse me, Mr. Harris; I am not over-partial to this distinguished classmate of yours, and, to put it flatly, I'm no more his friend that he is yours.

Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War Charles King 1888