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De Lorge's love o'erheard the King, a beauteous, lively dame,
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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De Lorge's love o'erheard the King, a beauteous, lively dame,
The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty
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De Lorge's love o'erheard the King, a beauteous, lively dame,
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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De Lorge's love o'erheard the king, a beauteous lively dame,
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A listening maiden fair, o'erheard with heart resistless throbbing;
Russian Lyrics Martha Dickinson Bianchi 1904
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De Lorge's love o'erheard the King, -- a beauteous lively dame
Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library 1884
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I o'erheard Cousin _Bess_ say to _Mother_ that the sun should scant seem to shine till I came back: the which dear _Mother_ did heartily echo, saying she wist not at all what had come o'er me, but it was her good hope that a southward winter should make me as an other maid.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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He o'erheard the child, and stayed him to pat her on the head.
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Or is it that one would not show ignorance or mistakings afore them one loves, nor have them hereafter cast in one's teeth, as might be if one were o'erheard of one's sist -- Good lack! but methought I were bettered of saying unkindly things.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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But I o'erheard their words and held them fast in memory * And hoped for fortune fair and weal and blessings infinite:
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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