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  • But Lessard's a overbearin 'son-of-a-gun all round, and he's always breakin' out in a new place.

    Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • "'Cause here y're gittin 'a man o' y'r own size, y 'great, big, overbearin' lummox!"

    The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

  • S-some overbearin 'g-guy will start runnin' on you, knowin 'it'll be safe.

    The Fighting Edge William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • You won't find nuther one of us the overbearin 'sort.

    Northern Georgia sketches, 1900

  • Just as soon as they git to be as overbearin 'an' as incontrollable as we are, then there's goin 'to be thunder to pay.

    Anderson Crow, Detective George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • Saxham -- that goes without sayin '-- though I don't like his overbearin' scientific side and his sledge-hammer manner.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • No; I've tried, I've kept my lips closed, I've prayed, I've done all that a man can do, and it's no good; I shall never be able to rest until I've seen them cruel, haughty, overbearin 'wretches brought low.

    The Log of a Privateersman Harry Collingwood 1886

  • And he said the men jeered at it, and throwed it round the room, and called it all to nort, and made the meanest speeches about it you ever heard, talked nasty, and finally threw it under the table, and acted so haughty and overbearin 'towards it, that Bub said he was afraid to tackle

    Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881

  • She was a affectionate, tenderhearted woman; and her husband wus kinder overbearin ', and stern always.

    Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881

  • She wuz a affectionate, tenderhearted woman and her husband wuz overbearin 'and stern always.

    Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

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