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

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 Seton, Ernest Thompson

It had begun so delicately; it became in a little while so determined, it threatened to overmaster him.

From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Blackwood, Algernon

So much the preference of contrivance to labor overmaster the mastering desire to become rich.

From The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society by Withington, William

His sympathies were strongly with the South, but not so strongly as to overmaster his desire to retain his commission and its emoluments.

From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John