Dictionary Entry
A removal, especially of a ruler or government, by force or threat of force.
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Poetry examples for “overthrow”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And whereas he shall live and be beloved,
'Tis hard for us to work his overthrow.
265 War. Mark you but that, my lord of Lancaster.
Read full poem →The fall of money,[490] and burning of Paul's steeple,[491]
The blazing star,[492] and Spaniards' overthrow:[493]
By these events, notorious to the people,
Read full poem →And next the heart that trembled for its sake
Lies the queen-heart in sovereign overthrow.
Read full poem →That flourish through neglect, and soon must send
Perfume too sweet upon us and overthrow
Our steady senses; how such matters go
Read full poem →"What unrecorded overthrow
Of all the world has ever known,
Read full poem →His triumph and his enemies unseen,
For them to undermine and overthrow;
And it was his no longer to forego
Read full poem →Or if we know, or if we think we know.
The call is on him for his overthrow,
Say we; so let him rise, or let him drown.
Read full poem →Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go,
All whom the flood did, and fire shall, overthrow,
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies,
Read full poem →Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
