"Overpeer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tossing on the ocean; There, where your argosies, with portly sail,— Like signiors and rich burghers of the flood, Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,— Do overpeer the petty traffickers That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with ...
— An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway • Martin Brown Ruud
... bright green lizards, And the springing bustard-fowl, The track, a straight black line, Furrows the rich soil; here and there Clusters of lonely mounds Topp'd with rough-hewn, Grey, rain-blear'd statues, overpeer The sunny waste. ...
— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold |
