1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 353 That the saidis..rebellis be nocht throw ourluking and oursycht nurissit in thair rebellioun.

1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things vi. 140 Women that haue double apples in theyr eyes, or strales: do euery where hurt with their looking (Which is called of some ouerlooking).

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. E2 ^v Suppose I loue a mans wife whose husband yet liues, and cannot enioy her for his iealous ouerlooking.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 37 His sole childe my Lord, and bequeathed to my ouer looking . View more context for this quotation

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 169. ¶10 This Part of Good-nature..which consists in the pardoning and over-looking of Faults.

1793 J. P. Kemble Shakspeare's All's Well that ends Well i. i. 2 His sole child, my lord; and bequesthed to my overlooking.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 516 The never intermitted Over-looking, By-standing, and Admonishing..enfeebled his Volition.

1883 P. L. Simmonds Commerc. Dict. Trade Products (rev. ed.) Suppl. Yard Clerk, one who has the overlooking of the yard of a brewery, builder, etc.

1961 R. B. Angus Electr. Engin. Fund. xiii. 343 The j is always placed to the left in the product. This practice helps avoid the overlooking of a j-term when real and j-terms are being grouped.

1988 J. Frame Carpathians xi. 72 I suspect there might be an overlooking, in the midst of such strength, of their natural talents for gentleness, delicacy, subtlety.

a1619 S. Daniel Philotas (1623) ii. iii. 212 That height of fortune iether is controld By some more pow'rfull ouerlooking eye.

1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer i. i I wou'd justle a proud, strutting, over-looking Coxcomb, at the head of his Sycophants.

1709 J. Dennis Appius & Virginia i. i. 3 By whom, but by the Author of all ill; By proud, presumptuous, overlooking Appius, Who sent Dentatus Legate to the Camp.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. vii. 136 Unless great Discernment be tempered with this overlooking Disposition, we ought never to contract Friendship but with a Degree of Folly which we can deceive. View more context for this quotation

1829 J. F. Cooper Wept of Wish Ton-Wish I. iv. 69 We may be brought to rely on the overlooking favor of Providence, working with the means of our own manhood, ere the sun shall arise.

1898 H. C. G. Moule Colossian Stud. ii. 22 Habituated to the scenery of its..rushing river and..overlooking hills.

1937 D. Jones In Parenthesis vi. 149 And in the afternoon rain, saw, for the first time, infantry go forward to assault. No. 7 were disposed in high overlooking ground.

1989 Derbyshire Times 8 Sept. 3/2 The thieves are believed to have spirited the ponies away overnight on Saturday without being seen by overlooking houses.