Example Sentences

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Moreover, many of the earlier Nights are overlong and not a few of the others are overshort: this, however, has the prime recommendation of variety.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Then surely the string is overshort or the stave overlong.

From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir