"Overestimate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the region, for a long way inland Mr. Weaver and others described it as of the like good quality as at the Mission, but with much muskeg. It is difficult to estimate the extent of the latter, for, being more noticeable than good land, the tendency is to overestimate. Its proportion to arable land is generally put at about 50 per cent., which may be over or under the truth, for only actual township or ...
— Through the Mackenzie Basin - A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 • Charles Mair
... coming here at this hour?" he demanded savagely. "You came here to warn me!—really, you overestimate ...
— The Substitute Prisoner • Max Marcin
... more than this it would be hard to overestimate its value, or to praise as it deserves the merit ...
— The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases • Charles West, M.D.
... box, the theater and social frivolities aggregate no inconsiderable sum, which I will not overestimate at thirty-five hundred dollars. ...
— The "Goldfish" • Arthur Train
... United States, after other men had tried and failed, to that great but ill-starred revolt against Victorian pedantry, formalism and sentimentality which began in the early 90's. It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the practical value to all the arts in America of his intellectual alertness, his catholic hospitality to ideas, his artistic courage, and above all, his powers of persuasion. It was not alone that he saw clearly what was sound and significant; it was that he managed, ...
— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken
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