" "The superior man," said he, "with his wide study of books, and hedging himself round by the Rules of Propriety, is not surely, after all that, capable of overstepping his bounds.

As the case stands, since he has once overstepped the limits imposed by the laws and the government and has acquired some power and authority by this action, it is not conceivable that he would change of his own free will or heed any one of our resolutions, but it is absolutely requisite that such a man should be chastised with those very weapons with which he has dared to wrong us.

Either of these suppositions would be the death of natural philosophy: the hylozoist endows matter with a property which conflicts with its nature, and the theist oversteps the boundary of possible experience.

At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires, without overstepping the lines of rectitude.

"And in saying this, I pledge you my word that I am by no means overstepping the mark.

I could not be checked by any fear of overstepping the modesty of Truth in the celebration of Virtue, so solid and so extensive, that the malevolence of Envy could not diminish its weight, the fondness of Enthusiasm could not amplify its effects.

And in their measures of precaution they are farther bound to depart from or overstep the ordinary law as little as is compatible with the attainment of their object.

The coachman frowned and hastily retreated a step; but in another moment he leaped in a rage upon Sweetwater, when the sight of the flowers he held recalled him to himself and he let his hand fall again with the quiet remark: "You're overstepping your dooty.

This measure will vary directly with the development and activity of the brain; to overstep the measure is mere waste of time, because if that is done, sleep gains only so much in length as it loses in depth.

"You let your woman's vindictiveness overstep your natural caution, my dear girl.

We must try even the inspired men, and when, overstepping their limitations, they err, we must say,

In thus developing his mastery over Nature man sometimes forgets his danger, oversteps the narrow margin of safety he has left between himself and the baffled forces of his ancient tyrants, Fire and Water, Earth and Air.

If you bore your hearers by overstepping your time politeness requires that they sit still and look pleased.

You, Sir Gendarme, are overstepping your powers.

"I have never wished to imply that Mistress Lambert was aught but my most obliging, most amiable landladynor have I, to my certain knowledge, overstepped the privileges of a lodger.

Yet I never met a woman either so clever as not to overstep the artistic proportions in her confession, or so sincere as not to tell lies in order to justify herself.

Indeed, his enthusiasm rather overstepped his prudence.

The little I Have just now granted, oversteps the right.

With a gesture of inexpressible disgust, regretted the next moment, as I reflected that, to bring me this letter, he might be overstepping common rules, I raised the envelope to the light and recognized, to my intense disappointment, the well-known characters of Bainrothe'ssmall, rigid, neat, constrained.

However, I felt fairly certain that I had rather overstepped the station, and therefore climbed down the bank into the cutting, and commenced walking towards the west.

Though on my heaving breast They lean their heads, they'll lean them uncaressed; We'll part, nor overstep the auscultation test.

If you bore your hearers by overstepping your time politeness requires that they sit still and look pleased.

And even the policeman acts at his peril, and may be sued in the ordinary courts, if he oversteps his authority.

Dear old fellow, he seems so happy and bubbling over with good temper at having overstepped the tyranny of habit, that I shall almost expect to see his gray hairs turn brown again as the wintry pelt of the weasel does in spring.

But that fact did not help any to overstep the barrier, nor did it keep the majority from being affronted.