Showed overmuch affection. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
As long as the bandsmen were playing then the British Battalions were not suffering overmuch from the French bombardment. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Eagle]
"I should not have thought Brianna the kind of lass to mind her father's word overmuch, " he said. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
But, for the most part, the religiosity of your music recalls overmuch the fashionable confessor's. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
"Thou honorest my calling overmuch," said Yoomy, we minstrels but sing our lays carelessly, my lord Media. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference
The doom of these cities it was not worth while to describe overmuch. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
"Not overmuch, sir," says I; "small enough sea-room for the sky there!". From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art.] Reference
The stopping of thy words -- may arise from overmuch trouble in thy heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
But King Mark cared not overmuch whether he wedded La Belle Isoude or not. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Lancelot, though he saw how sweet and gentle she was, noted her not overmuch. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Thus will you attain the term of life without overmuch disquiet and affliction. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
It would be a pity if you gentlemen gave way to overmuch expression of optimism. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
My servants presume overmuch who do all their own will and have no care of mine. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
These, it may be thought, condescended overmuch thus to notice an humble student. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
It was well that there was not overmuch light, for they could not consume it elegantly. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
It was nine o'clock that night before the revellers, weary with overmuch cheer, returned. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
It may mean overmuch; for there are mists, and hazy weather, which forbid any observation. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
But I dislike to insist overmuch on a point apparently so foreign to the one now before us. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
We may deem that our thoughts do not matter overmuch, and that it is only deeds that count. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit and Music] Reference
Things agreeable enough in small quantities, pall and cloy if the ration be overmuch augmented. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
After a little he inquired whether her unfamiliar work of the day before had tired her overmuch. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
'Take this with thee, Bragwine, for I misdoubt this marriage overmuch, and I charge thee do this. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
It did not commend celibacy, nor excess of fasting, nor too long prayers, nor righteousness overmuch. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
A rather too common mistake is made in allowing overmuch for the creative imagination of the normal child. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
Ye shall be placed in a boat and driven out to sea, and if ye all are drowned we shall not grieve overmuch. From Wordnik.com. [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference
At sight, Sir Kay, without overmuch chivalry, expresses his disgust, and the rest are unwilling to marry her. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series] Reference
Where a child is not beaten, or bullied, or cautioned overmuch, it is almost always very courageous to begin with. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Let us not wonder overmuch: some of them have recovered again, quite recently, a part of their pristine popularity. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind these overmuch apostles, though I am nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.] Reference
They had prepared for her a scented bath, into which, in her dazed condition, she entered without overmuch persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
And upon one of them she leaned, as if for delicateness and overmuch tenderness she were not able to bear up her own body. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 19: Esther The Challoner Revision] Reference
Sir Tristram cared not overmuch to be with ladies, but was more joyful to be in hall, talking of hunting, jousting and hawking. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
"The king hath dressed them like popinjays; they drink overmuch, dice, and run after the maids, but otherwise are well-behaved.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
'Philip dear,' his watchful mother, quick to note these signs, laid her hand on his shoulder to say, 'these pupils try you overmuch. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
So that on the contrary, you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 54: 2 Corinthians The Challoner Revision] Reference
And she thought him, honestly, the handsomest and noblest in the world, though she rallied him for his overmuch sobriety of deportment. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Once, being tired with overmuch play, the child had fallen asleep against that tree, and had wakened to hear his mother's voice calling. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
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