overheard

• “But occasionally words and phrases come up so often in overheard conversations that they seep through.”

  “Mainstream” schooling and disablism « Gin&Comment

• “The second piece, Bach's motet, was ... a bit ragged in singing (and so I also overheard from a few people who thought the same).”

  DaCapo / two: a second glance

• “After my relating an experience from over the week-end, Kate and Deborah suggested that we should have a competition for the most outlandish thing overheard from a fellow audience member over the course of the next season.”

  Lunch, or

• “Simply include the word overheard in your update and share it with others.”

  Archive 2007-10-01

• “Joe will remind the whole group that he once had a phone call overheard in college so he's been the victim of warrantless wiretapping and can bring the personal touch to the hearings.”

  Hullabaloo

• “As a dot-com company, Film Threat has survived because our overheard is so low.”

  Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat

• “She saw again the Dinard letter and his furious despair at a word overheard at a wine-shop table.”

  The French Immortals Series — Complete

• “That great artist Henri Monnier devoted a long life to the study and the collection of the finest examples of human stupidity, and marvellous as are some of the specimens preserved by him in his dialogues, I hardly think that he succeeded in discovering a finer gem than the phrase overheard by me in the Dowdeswell Galleries.”

  Modern Painting

• “In spite of their strong Yorkshire accent, Robin overheard a good deal, and it sounded very fine.”

  The Peace Egg and a Christmas Mumming Play

• “Matilda; 'impressions once strongly conceived are difficult to eradicate; the conversation I overheard is ever present to my mind, and could I forget that, then my reverence for my uncle would return, and I should shudder at the idea of a nearer connexion.”

  The Castle of Wolfenbach

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