overwell
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3VERB + OVERWELL
don't, eyes, having, kisses, succeeded, think
OVERWELL + NOUN
hitherto, mira
PREP.
with
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adv
Overly well.
I remember my father saying that a wise man should always mistrust a girl who kisses overwell.
In my own case, as I was saying, I not only pay the fare of my clerk and his family from Colorado, but I have had an assistant with him constantly since I have been here, and a great deal of the time I have had a third assistant, and yet I have not felt myself overwell served, though I have the most efficient clerk in Congress; nor do I believe there is a Member of this House that believes he is overwell served by services he has from one clerk.
adj
Overly healthy and robust.
I don't think him overwell. He is more worried than I like to see him by his small enemies – the fleas of Farringford- Woodford.
Shankaran is not overwell. Mira seems to have become ill on the high altitude and is due in Birla House tomorrow.
verb
To overflow.
Then sit in silence down, and brooding dwell, Through the slow years, on all we loved, and tell Each tone, each look of love, each syllable, With lips that work, with eyes that overwell!
Then, after going round a little, with surprise of daylight, the water overwelled the edge, and softly went through lines of light to shadows and an untold bourne.
To experience such strong emotion that it cannot be contained.
How his heart so proudly overwells!
When he himself has stubbed a toe, The other overwells with woe.
To fill with a crescendo of sound.
The heavy-throated cannon-song of battle boomed and swelled, Roared louder, lifted mightier, overwelled!
Thorns sing a carol of Soft May-snows; The young laburnum Overwells, With peals of bloom from Inaudible bells;
To flow over; to overrun.
The flames overwelled and he made a dash for the door where this Kodizia was grunting like a pig.
The crowds on the street that night were overwelling and it was a variable sea of black and everybody was there, Red Rolly, Bertah from Biloxi, Arty Shaw, Wild Bill Latura, Chuck the Knife, Axle Concertina, Styx, Sam, all the women you ever bedded, your cousin Lampedusa, the Greenville Gang, and that Lup Garou from the Clubs, skulking around, and it was quite a site.
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6I remember my father saying that a wise man should always mistrust a girl who kisses overwell.
WiktionaryIn my own case, as I was saying, I not only pay the fare of my clerk and his family from Colorado, but I have had an assistant with him constantly since I have been here, and a great deal of the time
WiktionaryBoadicea seemed to be hesitating for a moment, whilst Sir Baldwin remained coldly neutral, determined not to interfere again in women's affairs; his interference not having succeeded overwell hitherto
WiktionaryI don't think him overwell. He is more worried than I like to see him by his small enemies – the fleas of Farringford- Woodford.
WiktionaryShankaran is not overwell. Mira seems to have become ill on the high altitude and is due in Birla House tomorrow.
WiktionaryThe GOP also devoted considerable attention to 'invalid' girls and chronic cases, those who were 'never overwell', tired, subject to low spirits, aches and pains, and who had little inclination for ex
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