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
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 G. Bowers
So much the preference of contrivance to labor overmaster the mastering desire to become rich.
From The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society by William Withington
He felt once more as if his fury would overmaster him.
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
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
