Talent is elicited by the efforts required to overcome difficulties and hardships; and their natural birth-place is a country of frost and snowof tempestsof sterility enough to give a spur to exertion, but not enough to extinguish hope.

Were it ever necessary to make this part of the river navigable it will be no easy task to overcome the obstacles at this point; but a tram or railway could, with very little difficulty, be constructed along the east side of the river past the cañon.

They were unable, therefore, to overcome the resistance of the guard before the noise of the conflict had aroused the camp.

I gradually overcame the prejudices of the students, and gained their good will, while he was always giving offence by his meddlesome disposition and overbearing manners: yet his talents and force of character always procured him a few followers, whom he managed as he pleased.

For in no other world, though they are so vast, is it given to any to know the Lord in the darkness, and follow him groping, and make way through sin and death, and overcome the evil, and conquer in his name."

But perceiving that both the latter and his cousin were quietly waiting to hear it, he was fain to overcome his scruples.

This news, it appears, so excited the curiosity of the villagers, that they overcame their fears, and marched en masse to the place.

I subsequently did my best to overcome this feeling, but never quite succeeded.

From the earliest recorded periods of the world, men have gone forth to war, for the purpose of destroying or overcoming their enemies, and with the chance of being themselves destroyed or overthrown.

But all the esteem inspired by the personal character of Ernest could not overcome the repugnance of the United Provinces to trust to the apparent sincerity of the tyrant in whose name he made his overtures for peace.

Louise, the eldest, was now twentyentirely too young to be a bride; but having decided to marry Arthur Weldon, the girl would brook no interference and, having a will of her own, overcame all opposition.

60 Where those great warriors, which did overcome The world with conquest of their might and maine, And made one meare* of th'earth and of their raine?

" On the 11th of November, 1853, he left Linyante, having overcome Sekeletu's objection to let him go, and arrived at Loando, on the West Coast, on 31st May, 1854, after a variety of adventures, and being reduced by fever to a mere skeleton.

Rising of the gladiators; Spartacus collects, on Mount Vesuvius, a numerous army of slaves and gladiators; they overcome the forces sent against them and ravage Southern Italy.

Yet by confession will I come Into the conquest: though I can do nought Against thee, in thee I will overcome The man who once against thee fought.

To accept in her presence a second bride, by the same ceremonial act which had so lately asserted my claim to herself, was intensely repugnant to my feelings, and only her own self-sacrificing influence could have overcome my reluctance.

It was near midnight before the manifest fatigue of the ladies overcame my selfish desire to prolong as much as possible this most interesting visit.

He could not overcome the drink habit, and probably did not try very hard to overcome it.

Of course the wee Mumbles was in Patsy's lap, and he seemed to have overcome his first aversion of Wampus and accepted the little chauffeur into the circle of his favored acquaintances.

There was a pretty full attendance at the council; but a large portion of the sachems adhered faithfully to their covenant of neutrality made with General Schuyler, until the appeals of the British commissioners to their avarice overcame their sense of honor.

It is possible that, had it not been for the effects of the knife wounds, Harris, in the end, would have overcome these foes, for he was a powerful man.

In thrusting one thing under another, you have not only to move weight, but to overcome friction.

When a minister can help a soul to overcome temptation, and a parent to bring up a child, he is in touch with two final human problems.

As for Joe and Fuz, they were compelled to overcome a strong inward inclination to cast the boat loose.

So agitated, indeed, had my frame of mind become by this time that I thought at first it was Aunt Agatha, and only when reason and reflection told me how alien to her habits it would be to climb signposts and sit on them, could I pull myself together and overcome the weakness.