o'erflows

_Shoots_ through the Dykes, and all the Banks _o'erflows_;

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley

When Wealth o'erflows, Restlessness, as a near neighbor with only a wall between, presses it on with perpetual desire for more, till Prosperity strikes suddenly on an unseen rock -- yet even then, by sacrificing a portion of the cargo, the rest may be saved; so by plenteous harvests sent from Zeus, hunger and pestilence may be allayed: {986} _Antistrophe II: back to Altar.

Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy Richard Green Moulton 1886

Which here o'erflows our hearts to make them smile

A Wreath of Virginia Bay Leaves Poems of James Barron Hope James Barron Hope 1858

Now with sweet milk o'erflows, whose raptured breast

Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles 1852

No fermenting must fills and o'erflows the deep vats.

The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844

The scales have fallen from my sealed eyes, and the fountain of my heart o'erflows.

The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

Our thoughts hark back to the cover-side, and our heart o'erflows with recollections of the past, when life rode the pace through our veins, and the bark of the veriest mongrel, or the bray of the sorriest costermonger's sorriest "Jerusalem," were far more musical sounds than

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833

They rest them, while each heart o'erflows with joy.

The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan William Lisle Bowles 1806

Hulls heave in sight and blood the decks o'erflows;

The Columbiad Joel Barlow 1783

IV. iii.29 (99,2) [he, that in this action contrives against his own nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself] That is, _betrays his own secrets in his own talk_.

Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746