"Overest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... husband died, anon she went into the overest part of her house in which she made a privy bed, which she and her servants closed, and having on her body a hair [hair cloth], had fasted all the days of her life save Sabbaths and new moons, and the feasts of the house of Israel. ...
— Bible Stories and Religious Classics • Philip P. Wells
... households appear to have had their regular staff of musicians, at the head being the "Overest of Musicians," whose tombs still furnish some of the most instructive information upon this part of the ancient life. People of lower social grade had to be content with the temporary services of the street musicians, such as those represented in Fig. ...
— A Popular History of the Art of Music - From the Earliest Times Until the Present • W. S. B. Mathews |
