overmaster
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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
As I came out of it a voice seemed constantly saying, "You are getting worse; your paroxysms are growing longer and deeper; they will overmaster you; you will die."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various
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 Emma Marshall
And there was another thing: however much he might overmaster Nature sufficiently to be able to proceed without rest, the horse could not do so.
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
For a little while he could not trust himself to speak; his love threatened to overmaster his self-renunciation.
From Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame by James Lane Allen
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