brim over

At times like these you must be careful not to brim over with elation-into-crashing-despair.

I don't like people who brim over with facts—who lead facts about, as Holmes says, like a bull-dog to leap at our throat.

They were nice black eyes, the sort that brim over with humor, yet way at the back of them I caught a glimpse of something else.

Kate, looking up, saw above her the young perplexity of her boy's face, the suspended happiness waiting to brim over.

Here is a pool by the bank under an ash—a deep green pool inclosed by massive rocks, which the stream has to brim over.

This painful episode was the last drop which made the cup brim over; it strengthened Metchnikoff in his resolve to leave Russia.