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
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 William Withington
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
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
His heart beat nervously, the task before him seemed to overmaster him, and he shrank from it; with one hand he felt Jack’s letter, lying like an asp in his breast coat pocket.
From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice
