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o'er - 1 dictionary results

  1. 1. A contr. of Over.

o'er - examples of usage

  1. To walk as spirits do, in brakes all day, And, when the darkness comes, to glide in paths That lead to graves; and in the silent vault, Where lies your own pale shroud, to hover o'er it, Striving to enter your forbidden corpse. - "Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists", Washington Irving.
  2. Sae now he's o'er the floods sae gray. - "Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)", Walter Scott.
  3. Then Hobbie had but a laddie's sword; But he did mair than a laddie's deed; For that sword had clear'd Conscouthart green, Had it not broke o'er Jerswigham's head. - "Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)", Walter Scott.
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