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  • adjective Contraction of overhead.

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Examples

  • And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe,

    literature 2007

  • Now there was a dell walled in by rocks, with rills to water it, and shady pines o'erhead; there were the Maenads seated, busied with joyous toils.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • Now there was a dell walled in by rocks, with rills to water it, and shady pines o'erhead; there were the Maenads seated, busied with joyous toils.

    The Bacchantes 2008

  • SIMON: And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow, and the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe, he turned to me, and, Cap, says he, I'll cash in this trip, I guess.

    'The Cremation of Sam McGee' 2006

  • While the lark with joyous music filled the spreading dome o'erhead.

    Molly Doyle, the Heroine of Ross 1999

  • And while o'erhead the plaining wood-dove grieves,

    The Path of Dreams Poems Leigh Gordon Giltner

  • He took the morning paper then, which reeked with thrilling things, with tales of fighting modern men; the strife of money kings; the eager, busy, human streams throughout this mundane hive; the struggle of the baseball teams, which for the pennant strive; the polar hero and his sled; the race of motor cars; the flight of aernauts o'erhead, outlined against the stars.

    Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason

  • Almost had I written "B," seeing the perfect filmy blue all around the horizon; but a seaman's scrutiny showed me faint fluffy wisps o'erhead, luminous and marged with palest gold; and ever must a sailor be suspicious of the treacherous weather-god.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917 Various

  • Act, act in the living Present, Heart within and God o'erhead! '

    Three Men and a Maid 1928

  • Act, act, in the living present, Heart within and God o'erhead! '

    The Girl on the Boat 1928

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