Even then, this is an overcareful precaution rather than a necessity. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
Because they successfully invite revision after revision by overcareful supervisors and clients. From Wordnik.com. [Technology and the Future of the Overstressed Society « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website] Reference
Michael of the crossing was so overcareful sometimes that it became trying. From Wordnik.com. [The Search] Reference
"You are a cunning one, captain, but I really think you are overcareful sometimes.". From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
Money was to be made in many ways, and consciences were not overcareful as to the ways. From Wordnik.com. [Historic Boyhoods] Reference
He was always overcareful about money, and in old age this tendency developed into parsimony. From Wordnik.com. [The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration] Reference
She was not really angry with this overcareful gentleman; she would only have been grieved had he proved the man to serve her well. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel] Reference
"He always was overcareful of you, erring on the right side, I suppose, if that be an allowable expression," laughed Lora, as she and. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands"] Reference
Losing a sense of large significances, they become overcareful, saving, sometimes penurious, while in matters of feeling they lavish sentiment and sympathy on unimportant pets and movements. From Wordnik.com. [Woman in Modern Society] Reference
Kirk had hard work to refrain from shaving himself twice that evening, so overcareful was he about his toilet, yet his excitement was as nothing compared to that of Allan, who looked on with admiration tempered by anxious criticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Ne'er-Do-Well] Reference
"As he is overcareful that will not put on his clothes for fear of wearing them out, or use his axe for fear of hurting it, so he gives but an ill account of a healthy body that dares not employ it in a suitable occupation for fear of hurting his health.". From Wordnik.com. [From Farm House to the White House The life of George Washington, his boyhood, youth, manhood, public and private life and services] Reference
He was not overcareful of his dignity, feeling assured that his dignity could take care of itself, and consenting to rend the web of official formalities, and to waive all ceremony and precedence which might bar his passage to a good deed by the most expeditious route. From Wordnik.com. [Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
"My dear, dear anxious friend," -- said she, in mental soliloquy, while walking downstairs from her own room, "always overcareful for every body's comfort but your own; I see you now in all your little fidgets, going again and again into his room, to be sure that all is right.". From Wordnik.com. [Emma] Reference
Meanwhile, Neergard had almost finished with Gerald -- he had only one further use for him; and as his social success became more pronounced with the people he had crowded in among, he became bolder and more insolent, no longer at pains to mole-tunnel toward the object desired, no longer overcareful about his mask. From Wordnik.com. [The Younger Set] Reference
" It was an indirect and overcareful question, but even so it disturbed Caliban that the notion of Prospero being involved should even have occurred to him. From Wordnik.com. [Roger MacBride]
“My dear, dear anxious friend,” — said she, in mental soliloquy, while walking downstairs from her own room, “always overcareful for every body’s comfort but your own; I see you now in all your little fidgets, going again and again into his room, to be sure that all is right.”. From Wordnik.com. [Emma] Reference
She had a very sweet voice, and before she had been singing long we had the crew of a "dust express" -- as we jokingly call a gravel train -- standing about, and they were speedily reinforced by many cowboys, who deserted the medley of cracked pianos or accordions of the Western saloons to listen to her, and who, not being overcareful in the terms with which they expressed their approval, finally by their riotous admiration drove us inside. From Wordnik.com. [Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3] Reference
A bit overcareful on the part of the editors. From Wordnik.com. [My Wikipedia Article is Perfectly Cromulent, Thank You Very Much « Whatever] Reference
Just overcareful. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
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