over-calculate

Updated: April 30, 2025

At any rate, I did over-calculate the amount of peas I should gather. But my game was only half played. In another part of the garden were other peas, growing and blowing. To-these I took good care not to attract the attention of the bird by any scarecrow whatever!

Charles Dudley Warner - My Summer in a Garden

I see his clothes!” cried the indignant Natty: “and if he’ll only show so much flesh as will bury a rifle bullet, thirty to the pound, I’ll make him feel me. Go away, Billy, I bid ye; you know my aim, and I bear you no malice.” “You over-calculate your aim, Natty,” said the other, as he stepped behind a pine that stood near him, “if you think to shoot a man through a tree with a three-foot butt.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Pioneers

At any rate, I did over-calculate the amount of peas I should gather. But my game was only half played. In another part of the garden were other peas, growing and blowing. To-these I took good care not to attract the attention of the bird by any scarecrow whatever!

Charles Dudley Warner - The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1

At any rate, I did over-calculate the amount of peas I should gather. But my game was only half played. In another part of the garden were other peas, growing and blowing. To-these I took good care not to attract the attention of the bird by any scarecrow whatever!

Charles Dudley Warner - The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner