I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess to be a little wilderness. From LearnThat.org. [Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), English poet and satirist.]
Verb (used without object) : When the vegetable overgrows, it tends to be woody. ,An untended garden will quickly overgrow. From Dictionary.com.
Most of these drives took place in overgrown thickets, swamps, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Very Little Drops Dead] Reference
The lions too may be called overgrown feals; for they are all of the fame fpecics. From Wordnik.com. [A New, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by royal authority [microform] : containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third and last voyages, undertaken by order of his present Majesty, for making discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c. in the southern and northern hemispheres & c. &c. &c. ... the whole comprehending a full account, from the earliest period to the present time ...] Reference
Mr Cotterell bred Chihuahua dogs of which there must have been about 50 or 60 of what Henry called overgrown rats. From Wordnik.com. [Eastman War | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
A corral outside the quadrangle held four-footed beasts, and nearby stood a row of what Turekian, pointing, called overgrown birdhouses. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
BUREL: ... huge, you know, then you've kind of -- kind of overgrown your garden already. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2002] Reference
However, we should get it out of our heads that a government budget is a kind of overgrown household budget. From Wordnik.com. [A $2.4 Trillion Figure of Speech] Reference
Complaints used to be about smaller issues such as overgrown lawns. From Wordnik.com. [Paul & Matt's Sports Attack] Reference
I also told you that these birds were a kind of overgrown Wren; and before we call upon. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference
Municipalities charge fines for code violations such as overgrown lawns or unshoveled snow. From Wordnik.com. [lsj.com - News] Reference
It was overgrown and smelled like things were festering. From Wordnik.com. [Mutterings] Reference
Surely she could forgive, forgive a hurting overgrown child. From Wordnik.com. [Intangible Vectors of Influence (from "Emergency: Three Romances")] Reference
In the moonlight, it isn't the overgrown wreck it is in the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Five of Cups] Reference
Mary might be played as an overgrown convent girl with a drug problem. From Wordnik.com. [Theater Review: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'] Reference
After a few years the memory faded, overgrown by a new town, new families. From Wordnik.com. [Rain] Reference
I had to call him "father" to remind myself that he wasn't actually an overgrown peer. From Wordnik.com. [Blackballed] Reference
The backyard was overgrown and strewn with rusting plows and other green chunks of metal. From Wordnik.com. [The Fergus Incident] Reference
Not even a remnant of wall is standing; the lanes are overgrown with grass and wild wheat. From Wordnik.com. [Saddam's Secret War] Reference
Once those overgrown beds or foundation plantings are cleared, however, is it OK to plant?. From Wordnik.com. [Water into late fall to grow hardy plants in the Northeast] Reference
Bruno called Spitzer an "overgrown, rich spoiled brat who has tantrums all over the place.". From Wordnik.com. [His Dark Journey] Reference
I was standing in an overgrown yard with filled labyrinthine ivy and overgrown fruit trees. From Wordnik.com. [She Sank Into the Sand] Reference
And it sat, just a small circular brick building in the midst of a giant, overgrown courtyard. From Wordnik.com. [Magic X] Reference
Her fork clinked the empty plate, and Lydia giggled to herself and patted her overgrown stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Community Pool Advisor] Reference
At 38, behind wire-rimmed glasses and in a black T shirt, he looks like an overgrown college kid. From Wordnik.com. [Is Magical Realism Dead?] Reference
Finally, the set gets overgrown with weeds and grass and people themselves start turning into shrubs. From Wordnik.com. [Bjork Icon] Reference
Beyond The GrayLatin America's premier business destination is overgrown with big, boring luxury hotels. From Wordnik.com. [TIP SHEET] Reference
At Vukovar's 18th-century baroque Franciscan monastery, red roof tiles lie shattered in the overgrown courtyard. From Wordnik.com. [Vukovar: Now It's Serb City] Reference
We sweated through the steaming jungle on a path that was so overgrown it disappeared as soon as we walked through it. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 42: The Sumatra Story] Reference
I imagined capering bullmen and I was disappointed to learn that all we had in the garden were overgrown "baby tears.". From Wordnik.com. [Hearing the Sweetest Songs] Reference
In the dappled, overgrown town, everyone is so interconnected that a fracture in one household causes a break in another. From Wordnik.com. [The Corpses Of Summer] Reference
But PERI posits: what's more pathetic, lying in bed with a hangover or lying in bed gulping on an overgrown thermos of air?. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
The massive forest fires that we've seen in recent years are from millions of acres of unhealthy, overgrown national forests. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
For nearly a decade, the entrance to the city of Compton, Calif., just off the 91 Freeway, was a huge, vacant lot, overgrown by weeds. From Wordnik.com. [Straight Into Compton] Reference
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