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National pride and oversanguine expectations prevented a calm judgment on the existing state of Europe, and on the impossibility of Holland, in its ancient limits, maintaining the influence which it was hoped it would acquire.

From Holland The History of the Netherlands by Grattan, Thomas Colley

Alan was not oversanguine, although Fred Skane declared Bandmaster's task was easier than The Duke's.

From The Rider in Khaki A Novel by Gould, Nat

There is one thing of which the young or oversanguine or heedless should be warned.

From The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Leland, Charles Godfrey

It can not be an oversanguine estimate to predict that in less than ten years, of which one-half have elapsed, the receipts will have been more than doubled.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 2, part 2: John Quincy Adams by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

Suppose you are by nature rather oversanguine or overdespondent, and you make no genuine attempt to evolve that nature into poise.

From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Porter, Mary F.