That's something that isn't overdone.

If overdone, the birds will lose their flavour.

This was the Boab's account, but I think he has overdone the harshness and injustice of the Mohammedan law of marriage in relating it to our tourists.

The moment passed, but her enthusiasm, as she raised her glass, was a little overdone, her gaiety too easily assumed.

And all these rudenesses she performed with a successful air of genuine abstraction; they never failed of their intention by being overdone, or by being too directly directed at him.

it's struck twelve more 'n two minutes ago, 'n' everything 's gittin' overdone!'

If my host had been suspicious and cold at our first meeting he was now atoning for his inhospitality by an overdone cordiality even harder for me to explain.

Always remember, that the larger the loaves the slower must be the baking, otherwise they will be overdone on the outside and underdone in the middle.

Granting that the Roman Catholic poet intended to honour the fallen angel with no sublimity, but to render him an object of mere hate and dread, he has overdone and degraded the picture into caricature.

His modesty tried to say that this was slightly overdone; but his impartiality asked, "Really, what could they say against me?"

" "Ah, you are overdone," said I. "Leave it all to me, Jones.

" Altogether the picture presented in these last years of Crabbe's personality is that of a pious and benevolent old man, endearing himself to old and new friends, and with manners somewhat formal and overdone, representing perhaps what in his humbler Aldeburgh days he had imagined to be those of the upper circles, rather than what he had found them to be in his prosperous later days in London.

That the precautions taken against Zeppelins were by no means overdone was proved by the total failure of the second aerial raid on Antwerp, in the latter part of September, when a dirigible again sailed over the city under cover of darkness.

I say, old man, it was jolly good of you to wait for me, but I'm afraid you've overdone it.

The Barrier, five geographical miles from Cape Armitage, now looked very close, but Lashly had overdone matters a bit, run out of lubricant and got his engine too hot.

After one has formed a taste for his books, Dickens's sentiment will seem overdone, and much of his humor will have the air of buffoonery.

It is a paper you cannot make head nor tail of, and at the end come five or six long folded diagrams that open out and show peculiar zigzag tracings, flashes of lightning overdone, or sinuous inexplicable things called "smoothed curves" set up on ordinates and rooting in abscissaeand things like that.

This was partly owing to his carelessness of those formulae, the familiarity with which gives even second-rate lecturers a position of superiority which is less visible in those who, like their pupils, are themselves always struggling with principlesand partly to an effort, perhaps sometimes overdone, not to put himself above the level of others.

If this were so, however, it could have been only momentary, for the next minute Jack, with what seemed very much overdone cordiality, came forward with: "Why, hullo, boys.

rendus: knocked up, overdone. arbalètes, crossbows.

I have told it in the plainest, briefest way, with nothing exaggerated or overdone.

If the heat be too great, the bread will be baked before it has perfectly risen, or a thick, burned crust will be produced, forming a non-conducting covering to the loaf, which will prevent the heat from permeating the interior, and thus the loaf will have an overdone exterior, but will be raw and doughy within.

"The composure," thought the investigator, as he sat down, "is somewhat overdone.

" "She is quite herself now; but you look overdone, Raymond.

Dr. Worth said the great point was to keep strong, and not be overdone, nor to go into infected air tired and hungry.