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
The necessity of recovering it cooled for the moment the passion which had threatened to overmaster him.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 by Various
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
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
Her form was shaken with emotion so strong as to almost overmaster her.
From Out of a Labyrinth by Lawrence L. Lynch
