22 collocations for overreaches

He believed that God was helping him; therefore he had no need to oppress or overreach any man.

" Overreaching tyranny; the temper which fawns, and clings, and plays the parasite as long as it is down, and when it has risen, fattens on its patron's blood and lifethese, and the other works of the flesh, are the works of average plants and animals, as far as they can practise them.

Where you find an overseer endeavoring in every way to overreach the apprentices, taking away the privileges which they enjoyed during slavery, and exacting from them the utmost minute and mite of labor, there you will find abundant complaints both against the master and the apprentice.

Traveling expenses to Kansas, and the tracts, make the debtor column overreach the creditor some two thousand dollars.

And Mr. Chetwood adds: "Thus woman's wit (tho' some account it evil) With artful wiles can overreach the Devil.

Traveling expenses to Kansas, and the tracts, make the debtor column overreach the creditor some two thousand dollars.

But Louis thought that all the advantages of the treaty were on his side, and that he had overreached Edward by sending him out of France on such easy terms.

But the somewhat equivocal attitude of her statesmen has been determined not merely by an astute desire to win the spoils of war without making the necessary sacrificea policy which is apt to overreach itselfbut also by a very pardonable anxiety as to the attitude of Bulgaria and Turkey.

It is a piece quite unworthy of Butler's powers, and its sting lies principally in charging Denham with plagiarising "Cooper's Hill" and "Sophy," with gambling, and with overreaching the King as Surveyor of the Public Buildings, and with an overbearing and quarrelsome

[Footnote A: Here in the Quarto: Whether ought to vs vnknowne afflicts him thus,] [Footnote 1: 'to be overwiseto overreach ourselves' 'ambition, which o'erleaps itself,' Macbeth, act i. sc.

He has one happiness above all the rest of the serving-men, for when he most overreaches his master he is best thought of.

I presume you have at last made up your mind that there is no such thing as overreaching the Minister?" "Confound him, say Iyes; I made the re-examination, however, as Dupin suggestedbut it was all labor lost, as I knew it would be.

In his anticipation the young man had overreached the necessities of the situation.

In the troublous times about the middle of the fourteenth century, when every petty prince in Europe was trying to overreach his immediate neighbor and grasp his lands, and when ties of blood seemed only to intensify feuds, there arose two claimants for the principality of Brittany.

how art thou fallen an everlasting example of overreaching oppression.

He believed Hill to be a cunning scoundrel who had overreached the police for some purpose of his own by accusing Birchill, and who, to make his story more probable, had even implicated himself in the supposed burglary as a terrorised accomplice.

"But," she insisted, "you must shed a few entrance tears to" Before she finished her sentence, and without thinking that it would be overreaching a stranger's privilege, I impulsively threw my arms around her neck, laid my cheek against hers, and whispered, "Please don't make me cry.

Not since our short attendance at the pioneer school in Sonoma had Georgia and I been schoolmates, and never before had we three sisters started out together with books in hand; nor did our expectations overreach the sum of happiness which the day had in store for us.

The alcaldes were said to influence the commanders of the cruisers, and the latter to overreach the alcaldes; but both usually made common cause.

A winding river flowed down through the midst of this valley, very quiet and smooth, and brimming its grassy banks, where were alder and sedge and long rows of pollard willows overreaching the water.

[Footnote A: Here in the Quarto: Whether ought to vs vnknowne afflicts him thus,] [Footnote 1: 'to be overwiseto overreach ourselves' 'ambition, which o'erleaps itself,' Macbeth, act i. sc.

" "Thou hast overreached artifice, Janet, and gone back to Bible days and corrupted them by borrowing parabolic speech to waste upon deaf-eared seventeenth century maid.

22 collocations for  overreaches