What does overbrimming mean?
Overbrimming means present participle and gerund of overbrim.
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/əʊvəˈbɹɪmɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of overbrim.
The fisherman who takes two little orphans into his already overbrimming family belongs fortunately to a world not altogether of legend.
His face, which would otherwise have been very handsome, had a sickly, pallid, sodden look that told its own story; and his movements, so far from having anything of the elastic spring given by constant exercise and overbrimming vitality to the English boy, were heavy and languid, as if any exertion were an effort to him.
The flavor of nights about the campfire and other nights spent in driving sleet, also days when the first flowers come and the wide beds of the desert rivers are swollen with overbrimming floods; the cruel exposure of winter, the thrilling balminess of early spring — all spoke to him again from that motionless figure.
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Overbrimming means present participle and gerund of overbrim.
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The fisherman who takes two little orphans into his already overbrimming family belongs fortunately to a world not altogether of legend.
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