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So my search was carried now to Geneva, and it might be possible to come upon my people there, although I was not oversanguine.

From The Passenger from Calais by Griffiths, Arthur

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

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

The inventor, the promoter, the salesman, and the oversanguine manager do not always foresee such things.

From Industrial Progress and Human Economics by Hartness, James

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