"O'er" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Vainly they sought her, Wild rang the mother's screams O'er the gray water: 'Where is my lovely one? Where ...
— The Fitz-Boodle Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
... country whence I fled? None but a lover may its beauty know, None but a poet can its rapture sing; And e'en his muse, upborne on Fancy's wing, Will grieve o'er beauties still unnoticed, O'er raptures language is too poor ...
— Across the Sea and Other Poems. • Thomas S. Chard
... Judean bond United then dispart no more— Pierce through the veil; the rind beyond Lies hid the legend's deeper lore. Therein the mystery lies expressed Of power transferred, yet ever one; Of Rome—the Salem of the West— Of Sion, built o'er Babylon." ...
— The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI - The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I • Thomas W. (Thomas William) Allies
... On flaky cod the flavoured shower. Thee above all, I much regard, Flatter than Longman's flattest bard, Much-honour'd turbot! sore I grieve Thee and thy dainty friends to leave. Far from ye all, in snuggest corner, I go to dine with little Horner; He who with philosophic eye Sat brooding o'er his Christmas pie; Then firm resolved, with either thumb, Tore forth the crust-enveloped plum; And mad with youthful dreams of deathless fame, Proclaimed the deathless glories ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 2 • Grace & Philip Wharton
... of joy! Or mirth repeat the jocund tale; Let Love his wanton wiles employ, And o'er the ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
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