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
Thus to that extent Eustace Milne, the cool-headed, the philosophic, had allowed the impulse of his mad passion to overmaster him.
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Bertram Mitford
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
He felt once more as if his fury would overmaster him.
From The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann
Let my fate, too, be a warning to young creatures like myself, never to suffer their affection for any object to overmaster their sense and their reason.
From Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
