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
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 John McElroy
She was, however, not one of those who fold their hands and let circumstances overmaster them.
From The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France by Alfred H. Engelbach
Illusions which, though now in some measure dispelled, were long powerful enough to overmaster the mind of every politician, both speculative and practical, in Europe.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
I was unreasonably angry with Neville that day, but I never guessed that my passion would overmaster me to that extent.
From Our Bessie by Rosa Nouchette Carey
