overmaster

Example Sentences

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It was a welcome reminder that even in the rankly toxic House of Representatives, sometimes the personal transcends the ideological and that civility and empathy can overmaster appearances.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2012

Well," she said, "yet this is best; and of this I am sure, that, however they wrong me, they cannot overmaster God.

From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma

If one idea occupies the mind all them more for being great and just, it will be likely to overmaster that mind, so as not to be produced in its fair proportions, or rightly applied.

From The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society by Withington, William

This was the foe—the stealthy-footed demon, that had at last come to overmaster the brave and noble Angus Rothesay.

From Olive A Novel by Bowers, G.

His sympathies were strongly with the South, but not so strongly as to overmaster his desire to retain his commission and its emoluments.

From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John