Ay, but you may over-act your part, and spoil allBut, Sir, I hope you'll use a Christian Conscience in this business.

He has been long a riddle himself, but at last finds OEdipuses; for his over-acted dissimulation discovers him, and men do with him as they would with Hebrew letters, spell him backwards and read him.

But perhaps you would say that his adulatory manner was originally adopted under strong promptings of self-interest, and that his absurdly over-acted deference to persons from whom he expects no patronage is the unreflecting persistence of habitjust as those who live with the deaf will shout to everybody else.

And so with Hinze's deferential bearing, complimentary parentheses, and worshipful tones, which seem to some like the over-acting of a part in a comedy.

After the usual string of pleasantries he became suddenly confidential, over-acting the part a little, as a man does who has something rather disagreeable up his sleeve that he means to spring on you presently.

If I mistake not, fellow, you over-acted your own part to-day, and were a little too forward in leading on the trouble.

Yet tell me, if I over-act my mirth. (Being but a novice, I may fall into that error,)

" Raoul delighted in playing the part he was now performing, but he was a little addicted to over-acting it.

Perhaps it may be true, that his pulpit gesticulations were too violent, yet they bore strong expressions of sincerity, and the side on which he erred, was the most favourable to the audience; as the extreme of over-acting any part, is not half so intolerable as a languid indifference, whether what the preacher is then uttering, is true or false, is worth attention or no.

He meant to speak cheerfully, but over-acted, and was hilarious instead.

The young man's natural imperturbability, always exasperating to Wynn, seemed accented that morning by contrast with his own over-acted animation.