Citations:crow over

English citations of crow ouer, crow over, crowed over, and crew over

• 1588 June, John Udall (author), Edward Arber (editor), A Demonstration of the truth of that Discipline, which Christ hath prescribed in His Word, for the government of his Church, in all times and places, until the end of the world. (The English Scholar’s Library of Old and Modern Works. № 9, 2nd August 1880), chapter 6: “No man to be admitted to Church Office until by sufficient trial and due examination he is found by the Eldership to be fit”, ¶ ii: ‘The Churche ought not to be gouerned by Commissaries, and officialls, and Chauncellors.’, § 4, page 40:

  They that being inferiours, doe proudly tyrannize ouer their superiours, ought not to rule the Church of God, for it is meet it should be ruled by modest, humble and orderly men: But such are they (for being inferiors to the ministers of the word, as our aduersaries doe confesse, and is plaine also by the cannon lawe they crow ouer them as if they wer their slaues:) and if they doe not so, they can doe nothing: Therefore they ought not to rule the Churche of God.

• 1658, William Gurnall, The Chriſtian in Compleat Armour, or, A Treatiſe of the Saints War againſt the Devil, wherin a Diſcovery is made of that grand enemy of God and his People, in his Policies, Power, Seat of his Empire, Wickedneſſe, and chief deſign he hath againſt the Saints. A Magazin open’d from whence the Chriſtian is furniſhed with Spiritual Armes for the battel, help’t on with his Armour, and taught the uſe of his Weapon, together with the happy iſſue of the whole Warre. The Second Part. (second edition, 1659), verse 14: “And having on the breaſt-plate of righteouſneſſe.”, chapter viii: ‘A third inſtance wherein the power of holineſs muſt appear, and that is in the Chriſtians worldly employments.’, point 5, page 252:

  The world is of an encroaching nature; hard it is to converſe with it, and not come into bondage to it; as Hagar (when Abraham ſhew’d her ſome reſpect more then ordinary) began to conteſt with, yea, crow over her Miſtreſſe; ſo will our worldly employments juſtle with our heavenly, if we keep not a ſtrict hand over them.

• 1843, Charles John Huffam Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), chapter xx: “Is a Chapter of Love”, page 250:

  “Don’t talk to me about tender strings,” said Jonas, wiping his forehead with the cuff of his coat. “I’m not going to be crowed over by you, because I don’t like dead company.”

• 1893, James Augustus Henry Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume II: “C”, page 1,207/1, s.v. ‘Crow, v.’ 3, example sentence:

  Mod.   He crowed over them.

• 1900 December 26th, Viator (pseudonym?), “The Polish Danger” (Letter to the Editor) in The Times, № 36,342 (Thursday 3rd January 1901), page 5/6:

  The heads of the other movement for cutting up large estates into small on purely economic, non-political lines, practically, to use a vulgar expression, “crowed over them.” They sold their newly-formed small holdings by preference to Poles, finding them the better settlers, equally thrifty, equally painstaking, equally good husbandmen, and more easily contented at the outset. The “Colonization Commission” must sell only to Germans — good settlers, if possible, but in any case Germans.

• 1939, William Dunbar, “The Two Married Women and the Widow” in Mediaeval Pageant, ed. John Revell Reinhard, J.M. Dent & Sons, SBN 838311660, short story 85, 401:

  “When I had got the full power, and had fully overcome him, I crew over that craven like a victorious cock.[”]