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The Tiloeans took no chances, and had overbound the shaggy mountain just to be sure.
A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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We have heard of severall ungodlie carriadges in that ship, as, first, in their way overbound they wld. constantlie jeere at ye holy brethren of New England, & some of ye marineer's would in a scoffe ask when they should come to ye holie Land?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various
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Dearest Sir, — The bearer heereof Francis Felming - ham, being husband to the eldest daughter of Beniamyn Cooper deceased, who (as you haue already beene in - formed) dyed intestate in the way overbound to this place, doeth in the right of his wiefe & sonne, clajme his right in the goods & chattells of the said Beniamyn; the rather for that the said Beniamyn gaue him no portion with his daughter.
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