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Désirée eat like a raven, gambolled day and night in her bed, pitched tents with the sheets and blankets, lounged like a Turk amidst pillows and bolsters, diverted herself with throwing her shoes at her bonne and grimacing at her sisters — over-flowed, in short, with unmerited health and evil spirits; only languishing when her mamma and the physician paid their diurnal visit.
Villette 2003
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As hard as it was to face, maybe all the pressure and tension he had locked up in some secret place in his heart over-flowed finally and he exploded.
Rose V.C. Andrews 2001
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His anger and his anxiety over-flowed the inadequate vessel into which he placed it.
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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Of the herd of camp-followers who over-flowed the hotels and filled the streets, little note was taken.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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The old lady fairly over-flowed with the milk of human kindness, and allowed me to put her things in disorder as often as I chose.
A Grandmother's Recollections Ella Rodman Church
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Her lip quivered like a little child's, her blue eyes filled with tears and over-flowed -- she began softly to sob.
Polly and the Princess Emma C. Dowd
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Mr. Woodruff noted that when the railway trains pass through the over-flowed districts about Galveston, the birds fly up along the track in large multitudes.
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When I said "high land" I meant land that wasn't over-flowed.
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He stared at her curiously, his mind projecting against hers, feeling of the gentle pulsing of overtones, the strange half friendliness that was in her voice and over-flowed from her mind.
Slan Van Vogt, A. E. 1946
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His tenderness was beyond everything now; it over-flowed expression.
The Dark Tower Phyllis Bottome 1923
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