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The captains huge hand, swinging back, overset the bottle, that gurgled out its life-blood.

With these words he left her; and, though abashed and overset, she found no sensation so powerful as joy for the safety of Edgar.

But the very theory of our Government will be overset by a reversal of the rule which I have attempted to describe.

He came, with a part of his army composed of those very Catholics, to overset the power of a Popish prince.

There was about this letter an absence of sentiment, and an absence of threat, and an absence of fuss, which almost overset her.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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