Example Sentences

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And yet the target of a man riding swiftly over uneven ground and in the moonlight is not to be found overreadily by questing lead.

From The Bells of San Juan by Gregory, Jackson

Save for her amiable weakness of yielding somewhat overreadily to the seductive embraces of whirlpools—a trait common to all square-sterned craft of inconsiderable length—she proved more than equal to the task set for her.

From Down the Columbia by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)