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Brim over   /brɪm ˈoʊvər/   Listen
Brim over

verb
1.
Flow or run over (a limit or brim).  Synonyms: overflow, overrun, run over, well over.






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"Brim over" Quotes from Famous Books



... The world seems to be in the melting-pot at present, and there are many strange prophecies about the future. Black and yellow races are increasing and growing so rapidly that they may be ready to brim over their boundaries some day and swamp the white civilizations. Anglo-Saxons ought to be prepared, and to stand hand in hand to help one another. I've been reading some queer things lately. One is that a new continent is slowly rising out of the Pacific Ocean—Lemuria ...
— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil

... and sensible. Sometimes the tears would brim over at some suggestion of what her boy was soon to bear or do, but she wore a smile as courageous and sweet as any saint could wear. The boy saw and grew tender over it. A bird came and sang over their heads, and the moment was sweet with springing things and ...
— The Search • Grace Livingston Hill

... me! I won't be a bother!" Bobby's eyes were beginning to brim over with tears. His face ...
— Stories Worth Rereading • Various

... full of such anxieties; and, indeed, his epistles themselves are the best monument of his pastoral care; for they were written to ask after the welfare of those whom he had left behind, or to give counsel on points about which they had consulted him. They brim over with the expressions of a tender and heartfelt love. He is able to assure those to whom he is writing that he is praying for them, and that not only in the mass but one by one. He kept their faces and names alive in his memory by thus recalling ...
— The Preacher and His Models - The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 • James Stalker



Words linked to "Brim over" :   geyser, run, well over, flow, feed, course, run out, spill



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