While yet men grind the sickle, by the wind-streak overborne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

But millions, like this little one, are crushed and overborne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

Some there were who deemed already that the Queen was overborne.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference

On the Contrary it has always overborne them all and carried its.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778] Reference

Nevertheless, Jefferson Davis, already overborne by pressure from.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

Secretary of the Navy, until he was overborne by the feeling that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain and the American Civil War] Reference

The boy at one moment, thinking him overborne, 'cried out for fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

But some day Mr. Birrell may be overborne or may intervene too late.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics] Reference

If the North are overborne in this contest, they must and will submit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference

The accusers pressed on the prosecution; the influence of his friends was overborne, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

He sent messages to his wife, that he was returning to his house, but weary and overborne.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference

I made an effort not to seem quite overborne, and told him that I was entirely at his service.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference

Stanhope, overborne with the burden of his seventy-one years, had peacefully breathed his last.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference

His successor Xerxes was disinclined to invade Europe, but was overborne by Mardonius his cousin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

But what they did to serve the American doughboys was overborne by the mistreatment of the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

He hurried me on; and it was sweet to be overborne, for love makes a man so strong and a woman so weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Cuthbert's] Reference

So at the end, outwearied and overborne by her importunity, he could no longer refrain, but told her all.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference

And, overborne by his naughtiness, I purpose to break his ill-sounding arrows and his bow in his very sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Argonautica] Reference

Several of the German firing squad went down at the first volley and the rest were overborne in the mad rush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference

She seized his hand as she spoke, and set off, and Sammy, overborne by the stronger will, kept pace with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

It is bad enough to be his wife, without being overborne with the additional burden of her own personal foibles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

They were the wild shrieks of a proud man dying hard, and he was quickly overborne, and left helpless and dying!.    From Wordnik.com.  [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference

Such a gathering was simply unheard-of — and a gathering where they had all been so overborne was unthinkable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]

Asenath's gentle resistance was overborne by his arbitrary force of will, and her protestations were of no avail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference

One overborne physically, the other mentally, and — he had to face it — both beyond hope of rescue or recovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]

Years ago, when it was but a ripple on the surface, it had overborne Benton, with all his fame of thirty years 'growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The particle at m is urged by a greater force than n; consequently the particle at n is overborne by the pressure at m.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference

And she ` s going to have one tough defense to argue that her will was overborne or she was tricked into this situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2009] Reference

Hence, benevolence must be systematic in its operations, or it will be overborne by the ever-stirring energies of its opponent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character] Reference

But he was easily overborne by numbers, and when he found himself defeated in council, he shed actual tears of grief and mortification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference

The Confessor, surprised, but not displeased, felt some compunction as he saw the father's affection overborne by the judge's severity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race] Reference

French alliance he urged delay, but was overborne by the impetuous patriotism of the younger nobles, whose voice was, as ever, for war.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)] Reference

With thee it began; overborne by my tears, thou, O my sister, dost load me with this madness and agony, and layest me open to the enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

Why should any one devote his time and effort to secure a political result which those overborne by it will set at defiance the next hour?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

At that moment a fierce burst of line firing arose in front, followed and almost overborne by a long-drawn yell, the scream of charging men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brigade Commander] Reference

The suggestions of the Huguenot lords, backed by the entreaties of Beza, were, however, overborne by the secret insinuations of his treacherous counsellors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference