During the civil troubles he took no very decided part until after the misfortunes of Charles I., when his loyalty overmastered all other feelings.

By and by he would be thankful for his deliverance but just now there was room only in his chivalrous boy's heart for one overmastering emotion, pity for the girl and her needlessly wrecked life.

The ascendency that Slavery has acquired, and exercises, in the administration of the government, and the apprehension now prevailing among the sober and intelligent, irrespective of party, that it will soon overmaster the Constitution itself, may be ranked among the events of the last two or three years that affect the course of abolitionists.

He belonged to a class of men who seem to be chosen of Heaven to illustrate the sublime possibilities of Christian attainmentmen of seraphic fervor of devotion, and whose one overmastering passion is to win souls for Christ and to become wholly like Him themselves.

His was rather the sombre fury of the Covenantersan intense conviction that his way was the only way of gracea conviction that transcended reason and took flight into the realm of overmastering emotionthe only overmastering emotion, by the way, that he had ever experienced.

The shock of grief had evidently overmastered his facultiessomething, too, besides affliction, seemed to worry and distress himsomething of which he wished to unbosom himself, but that yet he could not make up his mind to reveal.

He had seen what few men are vouchsafed, the material fulfilment of his year-long dreams, and knew it was by his own tireless energy and overmastering faith that they had been wrought upon the soil of his native land.

They themselves made no one formidable attack, sent no one overmastering force against the whites.

There was no thought for the cruel cowardice of his act but only overmastering gratitude that the enemy should be thus delivered helpless into his hand.

In many cases lassitude supplanted vigor, and sickness overmastered health.

Something of her little-girl, overmastering horror of things, rough, outspoken, disagreeable, swept over her.

But he had that overmastering impulse which lives in every gentle-blooded horsethe great desire to serve.

And when Nur Jahan became queen she was ruler indeed, "the one overmastering influence in his life."

Once seen, this vision changes for us the whole of life; it reveals unity in what to our every-day sight appears to be diversity, harmony where ordinarily we hear but discord, and joy, overmastering joy, instead of sorrow.

" These tactics overmastered Nick.

Let it not overmaster her patience; let it not be too much for her.

The gratification of his selfish ambition overmastered patriotism and real fame, and prepared the way for his fall and the ignominy which accompanied it.

Force of character, overmastering personality, emanation of sheer will, she could not say in what terms it should be described.

Without overmastering purpose outside of art itself, his is the poetry of luxury rather than of deep passion or conviction; yet, with the freshness of bud and tint in springtime, it still always relates itself effectively to human experience.

Unlike Burke, who was the god of his political idolatry, his sensibility never overmastered his reasoning.

The possibility of a separation of the two wills lies in the divine ground (it is "permitted" in order that by overmastering the self-will the will of love may approve itself), the actuality of evil is the free act of the creature.

and, for the moment, overmastering sensation.

He, nevertheless, took this mortifying stepactuated entirely by that sense of duty which remained with him to the last, overmastering every other sentiment of his nature.

She had only just lost her husband Piso, who had gallantly maintained her father's cause throughout, but she was the first to welcome him with tears of joy which overmastered her sorrow.

For an hour or more the old wolf sat there, challenging his degenerate mates in every silence, calling the tame to be wild, the bound to be free again, and listening gravely to the wailing answer of the dogs, which refused with groanings, as if dragging themselves away from overmastering temptation.