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overstep Verb [-stepping, -stepped] 1. to go beyond the limits of what is thought acceptable: he had overstepped his authority by acting without consulting his superiors 2. overstep the mark to go too far and behave in an unacceptable way
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and if you overstep it, maybe you will be still unhappier. The undertaker, instructed to spare no expense, provided long-tailed black horses, with black palls on their backs and black plumes upon their foreheads; coachmen decorated with scarves and jack-boots, black hammercloths, cloaks, and gloves, with many hired mourners, who, however, would have been instantly discharged had they presumed to betray emotion, or in any way overstep their function of walking beside the hearse with brass-tipped batons in their hands. "Pardon me, Miss Henley," he cried, and the apology was unconsciously paid to the commanding purity and dignity of her air, "if I overstep the rules of decorum, and hasten to declare that which I know years of trial would hardly justify my saying; but your beauty, your grace, your----your----where shall I find words to express it? |
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