overmaster
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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
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
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
The men, however, again seized him, and told him his ringing would be of no use, as there were fellows inside who could overmaster any effort of his.
From Recollections of Old Liverpool by A Nonagenarian
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