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He looked like an overblown schoolboy, and though I felt so sorry for him, I could hardly help laughing.

He had most of Horace by heart, and had got into the habit of connecting this particular walk with certain odes which he repeated duly, at the same time noting the condition of his flowers, and stooping now and again to pick any that were withered or overblown. On wet days, such was the power of habit over him, he rose from his chair at the same hour, and paced his study for the same length of time, pausing now and then to straighten some book in the bookcase, or alter the position of the two brass crucifixes standing upon cairns of serpentine stone upon the mantelpiece.

He met new groups of his countrymen, who had all a straggling air of having at one time overblown themselves, like certain uncomfortable kinds of flowers, and of being now mere weeds.

The Mercuries, exhausted by looking out of window, are reposing in the hall and hang their heavy heads, the gorgeous creatures, like overblown sunflowers.

ally doesn't cooperate on border issues, while some of his Democratic challengers for the White House said the last-minute deal to avert trade penalties was overblown.

Further, Kallo continues to think concerns over Tesla demand are overblown and he remains a buyer of the stock at current levels.

It's all been overblown. Because it's just this, it's part of just what we had fun with.

Both sides have overblown the effects of migration on this country.

WITH more finely dressed hams on display than a Parisian charcuterie's window, BBC2's Versailles is overblown nonsense for sure - but it is proving to be highly addictive overblown nonsense.

NEW Englanders hit by a blizzard packing knee-high snowfall and hurricane-force winds have begun digging themselves out - as some New Yorkers and others spared its full fury questioned whether forecasts were overblown.