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
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
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
For a little while he could not trust himself to speak; his love threatened to overmaster his self-renunciation.
From Sister Dolorosa and Posthumous Fame by James Lane Allen
The backward drag rapidly decreased as the pull of Saturn and his system began to overmaster that of Jupiter.
From A Honeymoon in Space by George Chetwynd Griffith
