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
He did not look away yet, but Clare saw the blush of shame in his face, and felt that his power diminished, while hers grew all at once, to overmaster him in turn.
From Adam Johnstone's Son by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Often these are united in the same individual; or, rather, the individual appears in the first rôle, until the second comes to overmaster it.
From The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country by Ernest Thompson Seton
And there was another thing: however much he might overmaster Nature sufficiently to be able to proceed without rest, the horse could not do so.
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
Once more that unaccountable feeling of irritation seemed to overmaster her, the same sense of wrath and of injustice which had assailed her when she first spoke to him.
From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
