outwore
- past tense form of outwear.
Example Sentences
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Gladsome and gay forget thine every grief * Full often grief the wisest hearts outwore: Thought is but folly in the feeble slave * Shun it and so be saved evermore.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Thou sayest my faith has been forfeit, O fair in thy glittering raiment; But I wearied my steed and outwore it, And for what but the love that bare thee?
From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)
They call the days the Golden Days that 'neath that king outwore, Amid such happiness of peace o'er men-folk did he reign.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William
How the dream outwore the night and strengthened as morning broke gray and cold, and quiet with the stillness of the desert, we need not follow.
From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock
Forgive me, mother, if my whims outwore Your patient heart.
From The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman by Inchfawn, Fay
