o'ergrown

Vienna has strict statutes against fornication and adultery, but those statutes have been allowed to atrophy 'like an o'ergrown lion in a cave/That goes not out to prey'.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

And yonder, "sitting upon the river-bank o'ergrown," with questioning eyes, was another shade, more habituated to these haunts -- the shade known so well to bathers "in the abandoned lasher," and to dancers

Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

One day, in their rovings through the park, they came by chance upon a door in the hill-side, but so o'ergrown with creeping vines that, had not the little lord stumbled upon it, 'twas very like it had been there to this day without discovery.

A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

Arbours o'ergrown with woodbines, caves and dells;

The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

In the first two divisions of the poem the story does, in some sort, get forward; but in the continuation, by George Chapman (who wrote the last four "sestiads"), [21] the path is utterly lost, "with woodbine and the gadding vine o'ergrown."

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, 40

Lycidas 1875

It may be said in excuse that Celia had heard the piteous story of his conversion, how he had become 'a wretched ragged man o'ergrown with hair, 'and what is more to the point, she had heard of Orlando's noble kindness to him.

More Pages from a Journal Mark Rutherford 1872

And its leathern sheath lie o'ergrown with a blue crust,

An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869

And its leathern sheath lie o'ergrown with a blue crust,

Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850

And its leathern sheath lie o'ergrown with a blue crust,

Dramatic Romances Robert Browning 1850