I think you will now allow that I did not overstate my case when I asserted that we have as strong grounds for believing that all the vast area of dry land, at present occupied by the chalk, was once at the bottom of the sea, as we have for any matter of history whatever; while there is no justification for any other belief.

Still, when he found out that dogs were not so dangerous, he began to think his mother might have overstated the man question, too.

" It was impossible to doubt that he said this judiciously and not with a desire to overstate his powers.

His confessions are dwelt upon, stated and overstated, as you will recollect.

"Ladies and gentlemen," said Joe, as he advanced to the edge of the stage, "I am afraid our genial manager has rather overstated my powers.

It might well be said that 'the evils of this illegal, connived at, and corrupting traffic could hardly be overstated; that it was degrading alike to the producer, the importer, the official, whether foreign or Chinese, and the purchaser.' To remedy these evils two courses were open.

V. exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify &c (expand) 194; overestimate &c 482; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous.

Possibly my informant overstated the case; but in any event I would trust the major to bear himself like a philosopher.

The last sentence is, in my view, the gist of the matter; the preceding sentences greatly overstate the case.

Sheila had not overstated the unhappiness that Mrs. Hudson's evident dislike had caused her.

Aren't the probabilities that they will always overstate the caseas far as possible? DIST.

We have attacked Rome too often on shallow grounds, and finding our arguments weak, have found it necessary to overstate them.

The philosophy of the syntax I did not in any respect overstate, but merely recognized or discovered.

We think we cannot overstate the wisdom and benefit of this act of the Government.

It would be easy to overstate the efflorescence of distinctively feminine emotion, dressiness, mysticism, and vanity upon the suffrage movement.

It is so frequently under or overstated by most persons in this country who speak and write, according to the side they have espoused, or the inclinations and political principles of those by whom they are likely to be read or heard, that they at last persuade themselves there is a sort of impropriety in presenting facts in their proper colours.

There was a gleam of battle satisfaction in the editorial eye when Hildreth faced the last sheet down upon the accumulation of evidence, saying: "You didn't overstate the fact in your brag about the political graves.

These facts may be overstated, but they are at least as good as those which they answer.

That is the due of boys who overstate, and men who understate, their age in order to serve their country in the field.

To say that the boy was consummate in the limited way of a ship's cook does not overstate his effectiveness.

All this was grossly overstated.

Undoubtedly it is scarcely possible to overstate the all-grasping despotism of Henry VIII., and if a precedent for anything reckless of all separate rights and independence should be wanted, it would never be sought in vain if looked for in the policy and legislation of that reign.

There is really no question as to the American numbers; yet a variety of reasons have conspired to cause them to be generally greatly overstated, even by American historians.

And even now, when I reread my record, I feel that I cannot overstate the pleasure I found in surrendering myself completely to that controlling impulse.

By the one side the distinction was strongly insisted on between mere instruction and education, the distinctly religious character of the University education was not perhaps overstated in its theory, but portrayed in stronger colours than was everywhere the fact; and assertions were made, which sound strange in their boldness now, of the independent and constitutional right to self-government in the great University corporations.