Example Sentences

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I pray you to open the lattice, Nigel, for the steam is overthick.

From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

"Well, Brother Wolves——" "Brother Wolves?" questioned the other with a sneer-tinge in his gruff voice; "thou art overthick in the shoulder for a Wolf."

From The Outcasts by Heming, Arthur Henry Howard