Example Sentences

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His mistakes, if we may call them such, were not those of failing faculties, but of a man made oversecure in his own conclusions by a series of old successes.

From That Affair Next Door by Green, Anna Katharine

He who in time of peace willeth to be oversecure shall be often found in time of war overdispirited and full of fears.

From The Imitation of Christ by Benham, William