overplied

Lady Shaftesbury describes "the great, though unhappy, Handel, dejected, wan and dark, sitting by, not playing on, the harpsichord," and adds that "his light had been spent in being overplied in music's cause."

Handel Edward J. Dent 1916

The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied

Milton John Cann Bailey 1897

The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied

Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied

Life of John Milton Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 1890

The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied

Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881

The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied

The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation Various 1878

The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied

Life of John Milton Richard Garnett 1870

Strange sounds, too, were heard, or were thought to be, by those whom anxious watching might not have left mentally undisturbed -- sounds, not only of some ringing implement, but also -- so they said -- half-suppressed screams and plainings, such as might have issued from some ghostly engine, overplied.

The Piazza Tales Herman Melville 1855

I'm pretty happy with the finished product (130m, 12wpi), but I overplied in a few places (it got away from me) and it's a bit less lofty that I hoped for.

And She Knits Too! 2010