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Therewith must the little ones also kiss her hand and be courteous; and Birdalone suffered it, laughing, and then caught them up in her arms, and clipped and kissed them well-favouredly; wherewith belike they were not over-well pleased, though the boy endured it kindly.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Although Isaac was, probably, not over-well pleased at losing this chance of being father-inlaw to a royal highness, yet as he passed among his people for a very strict character, and there were in his family several rabbis of great reputation and severity of conduct, the old gentleman was silenced by this objection of

Burlesques 2006

Sir knight, said Sir Palomides, I pray you to lend me your armour and your shield, for mine is over-well known in this field, and that hath done me great damage; and ye shall have mine armour and my shield that is as sure as yours.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

I remember him at this moiment — a man of six-and-thirty — dressed in a grey travelling suit, not over-well made; light-haired, fat-faced, and clumsy; and he looked both dull and cunning, and not at all like a gentleman.

Uncle Silas 2003

The house was a trap: it was to be surrounded at night, when we had eaten and drunken over-well, and the sword was our doom arranged for.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

They are over-well fed, in order that a supernatural energy may be exerted.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 568, September 29, 1832 Various

The “executive, ” Governor Harrison, not over-well versed in matters artistic, had thought that all a sculptor could need to perform his task was a painted portrait of the model, so he ordered one from Peale, which would, he thought, enable the artist “to finish his work in the most perfect manner.

Washington and the French. III. III 1916

"A snack of ham or beef first, Perry, love letters don't go over-well on empty stomachs --" But here I caught the letter from him and sat with it in fingers that shook a little, staring at the superscription.

Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

There is nothing to boast of in the arrangement; it was built quickly and not over-well.

From the Bottom Up Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 1910

Talk about "our manifest destiny" to reach the Pacific may have been justly described by Parson Wilbur as "half on it ign'ance and t'other half rum," but it is easy to see how readily it might be taken up, and indeed many Northerners at that moment had a fancy of their own for expansion in the North-West and were not over-well pleased with

Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904