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Overreach (Sir Giles)

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The counterpart of Sir Giles Mompesson, a noted usurer outlawed for his misdeeds. He is an unscrupulous, grasping, proud, hard-hearted rascal in A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by Massinger.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Outworks
Ouzel
Ovation
Over
Over
Over and Over Again
Over Edom will I cast my Shoe (Psalm lx. 8; cviii. 9)
Over the Left
Overdo (Justice)
Overreach (Sir Giles)
Overture
Overy
Ovid
Owain (Sir)
Owen Meredith
Owl
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Owl-light
Owl in an Ivy Bush (Like an)
Owl was a Baker’s Daughter (The)