Overseers
['ovɚ'sɪr]
Examples
- If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of church-wardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I broke a fellow in, once, said St. Clare, that all the overseers and masters had tried their hands on in vain. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Overseers of Snaily parish against Crawley, Bart. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The magistrates, and overseers, and churchwardens, are always wanting his opinion. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I don't keep none o' yer cussed overseers; I does my own overseeing; and I tell you things _is_ seen to. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He'll muster some of those old overseers on the other plantations, and have a great hunt; and they'll go over every inch of ground in that swamp. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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