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
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
The necessity of recovering it cooled for the moment the passion which had threatened to overmaster him.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 by Various
Often these are united in the same individual; or, rather, the individual appears in the first rôle, until the second comes to overmaster it.
From The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country by Seton, Ernest Thompson
A kingdom is ruled well when the glory of ruling does not overmaster the spirit.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)
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