"Overfond" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have been thought about it if such had been the case. My mother is not overfond of such strict principles ...
— The Home in the Valley • Emilie F. Carlen
... practice of the capital and the country within sixty miles of it was the standard of correct diction, the jus et norma loquendi. Already Spenser had almost re-created English poetry,—and it is interesting to observe, that, scholar as he was, the archaic words which he was at first overfond of introducing are often provincialisms of purely English original. Already Marlowe had brought the English unrhymed pentameter (which had hitherto justified but half its name, by being always blank and never verse) to a perfection ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... "I'm not overfond," said he, "me lord, av state etiquette, though our ancistors were divils av fellers at it. What I loike is a good dinner, an' a glass av somethin' warrum, an' a pipe afther all. Ye've heard ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille |
