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  • Let our hearts and eyes, like civil war, be blind with tears, and break, o'ercharged with grief.

    Bloody times Burke's Corner 2007

  • Let our hearts and eyes, like civil war, be blind with tears, and break, o'ercharged with grief.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Burke's Corner 2007

  • To leave thy native land, o'ercharged with strife,

    Home Lyrics

  • You respect their feelings, smile and smile, and are villain enough to be civil with your lips, and hide the poison of asps under your tongue, till you have a chance to relieve your o'ercharged heart by shaking your fist in impotent wrath at his retreating form.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

  • You respect their feelings, smile and smile, and are villain enough to be civil with your lips, and hide the poison of asps under your tongue, till you have a chance to relieve your o'ercharged heart by shaking your fist in impotent wrath at his retreating form.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Various 1887

  • Oh! who can describe what the o'ercharged spirit feels at this sacred hour, when we almost lose the consciousness of existence, and our souls seem to struggle to pierce futurity!

    Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • Break, break my heart, o'ercharged with bursting woe

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • His gulphs o'ercharged their opening sides display,

    The Columbiad Joel Barlow 1783

  • -- I could behold a field of battle, and survey the devastations of the Devil, without a tear -- but a heart o'ercharged with gratitude, or a deed begotten by sacred pity -- as thine of this day -- would melt me, altho 'unused to the melting mood.

    Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life, Vol. 1 1780

  • Be blind with tears, and break o'ercharged with grief.

    The Third Part of King Henry VI 1590

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