Example Sentences

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She climbed Popocatepetl, the mysterious "Sleeping Woman" that overhands the ancient town, and looked into its crater.

From Love Eternal by Haggard, Henry Rider

"How shall I pass her up?" says I. Just then she made a spring for that rope ladder of ours and overhands up like a trapeze star.

From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)