Verb (used with object) : The sudden impulse had quite overmastered me. From Dictionary.com.
For a moment I felt the anger at his treachery almost overmaster me. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
I held out my hand: I dared not speak lest my emotion should overmaster me. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall] Reference
I will form such an array that our enemies will not be able to overmaster it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
"But you did not let your feelings overmaster you-or we would not be here now.". From Wordnik.com. [Tran Siberian] Reference
"But you did not let your feelings overmaster you — or we would not be here now.". From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
She was, however, not one of those who fold their hands and let circumstances overmaster them. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
So much the preference of contrivance to labor overmaster the mastering desire to become rich. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society] Reference
It knew when the bird's need to fly was going to overmaster its need to stay still, in its hide. From Wordnik.com. [Blaze]
Octavius's plan to return to Rome with her as his captive is manifestly designed to overmaster the unruly woman who has enslaved. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Do good to the humble, and give not to the ungodly: hold back thy bread, and give it not to him, lest thereby he overmaster thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Only thus should Truth be followed, with an interest great enough to overmaster all fears as to whither she may lead and what she may disclose. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
As I came out of it a voice seemed constantly saying, "You are getting worse; your paroxysms are growing longer and deeper; they will overmaster you; you will die.". From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
But she was a lady of such fine principles, that she did not allow her grief to overmaster her; and an opportunity speedily arising for uniting the two best Saxon families in. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
She hated it, but she did not let it overmaster her. From Wordnik.com. [The Nine-Tenths] Reference
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She said: It is well; I will take that, lest desire overmaster thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Water of the Wondrous Isles] Reference
He would be powerless to help if he let weakness overmaster him now. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of Things] Reference
Harlson had but one thought: to overmaster in some way his assailant. From Wordnik.com. [A Man and a Woman] Reference
For a minute or two it seemed that these would overmaster the defence. From Wordnik.com. [Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest] Reference
"He has fainted," said Tom, not allowing the worse fear to overmaster him. From Wordnik.com. [We Two, a novel] Reference
He fought down the depression which threatened to overmaster him once more. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Colours]
So long as the masculine will overmaster the feminine, the feminine mind is satisfied. From Wordnik.com. [Hints for Lovers] Reference
He longed to cry to her from his soul, to crush her body against his, to overmaster her. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
The coward is not the man who is afraid, but the man who allows his fear to overmaster him. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army] Reference
His great strength must have some outlet, lest it should overmaster the gentleness of his love. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century] Reference
He was one of those unhappy creatures whom an idea has power to shake, and almost to overmaster. From Wordnik.com. [The Revolution in Tanner's Lane] Reference
The backward drag rapidly decreased as the pull of Saturn and his system began to overmaster that of Jupiter. From Wordnik.com. [A Honeymoon in Space] Reference
Though he did not touch her she felt instinctively that his personality had been put forth to overmaster her. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheel of Life] Reference
As he came near Corless's his former agitation began to overmaster him and he halted before the door in indecision. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
This was the foe -- the stealthy-footed demon, that had at last come to overmaster the brave and noble Angus Rothesay. From Wordnik.com. [Olive A Novel] Reference
They require a clear space round them, the removal of everything which may overmaster them, and constant delicate attention. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Rutherford's Deliverance] Reference
The popular influence began to overmaster the Proprietary interest, and the colony became for a short time peaceful and happy. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitutional Beginnings of North Carolina (1663-1729)] Reference
For she being so much left to solitude, she came to greet my return with an increasing fervour that came nigh to overmaster me. From Wordnik.com. [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference
It required a firm hand and a strong arm to conquer him, and I had to work hard all the forenoon before I could overmaster him. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress] Reference
His repeated promises confirm her hopes: embraces and endearments, which increase the ardour of her desires, overmaster her soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Sorrows of Young Werther] Reference
I dread it simply because I know that when the din of battle begins my body will overmaster my mind, and that I shall be as I was at. From Wordnik.com. [Rujub, the Juggler] Reference
They was certainly tokened, and if she's forgot it, he haven't; and such is the report I hear of him, that 'tis sure he'll overmaster such. From Wordnik.com. [The Torch and Other Tales] Reference
Should the foe overmaster me, not long will I endure the shame, but plunge thee straightway in my breast! ". From Wordnik.com. [With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds] Reference
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