243 collocations for overwhelming

Sorrow had overwhelmed his soul.

For we are face to face with a peril greater than plagues, greater than influenza, greater than earthquakes and mighty floods, which sometimes overwhelm this land.

They little knew how cruel was the test, or what a storm of realisation might have overwhelmed her mind as her eye fell on those accursed walls, peering from their bower of snow-laden, pines.

Nothing impresses the visitor to Holland more than the vast dikes or dams which restrain the sea from overwhelming the country.

With large levies of Iberian mercenaries she then meant to overwhelm her Peloponnesian enemies.

As Lawgiver did he create a system tenfold more grinding than that for which he had just hurled Pharaoh headlong, and overwhelmed his princes, and his hosts, till "hell was moved to meet them at their coming?"

The famine in Ireland had caused the people of that island to migrate to ours in swarms like those which the populous North poured from her frozen loins to overwhelm the Roman Empire.

Such a vast misfortune, overwhelming a man at the age of fifty-five, might well crush out all life and hope and send him into helpless bankruptcy, with the poor consolation that, though legally responsible, he was not morally bound to pay other people's debts.

Helen had refused to go, and had given her place to poor Conrad, thereby overwhelming his brother and comrades with gratitude.

Viewed only as a military exploit, it remains unparalleled save by Marlborough's bold march from Flanders to the Danube in the campaign of Blenheim, and perhaps also by the Archduke Charles' lateral march in 1796, by which he overwhelmed the French under Jourdan, and then, driving Moreau through the Black Forest and across the Rhine, for a while freed Germany from her invaders.

"On necessary and inevitable evils, which overwhelm kingdoms at once, all disputation is vain: when they happen they must be endured.

Their cause and their name have protected them from dangers which might ere this have overwhelmed any other people.

Against any case of hypocrisy or injustice he sets up a remedy of precisely the same kind, only more atrocious, and defends his plan with such seriousness that the satire overwhelms the reader with a sense of monstrous falsity.

THE CURRENT OF THE REVOLUTIONTHE SOUTHERN BACKWOODSMEN OVERWHELM THE CHEROKEES, 1776 XII.GROWTH AND CIVIL ORGANIZATION OF KENTUCKY, 1776 APPENDICES: APPENDIX ATO CHAPTER IV.

Pope could now have retired to Washington without a battle, but he decided to overwhelm Jackson before Longstreet could reach the field, and attacked hotly on the Confederate left.

Through the same gate we pass both to glory and to tragic suffering, each of which heightens and measures the other; and it is only so that we can understand the function of sorrow in the Providence of God, or interpret the sudden calamities which sometimes overwhelm human hopes at their highest aspiration,which from the most serene and cloudless sky evoke storms which leave not even a wreck from their vast ruin.

he screamed, "I would overwhelm the place in an hour.

All these phenomena were indicative of an imminent eruption, and there was no spot at the base of the mountain that could afford any protection from the rivers of lava that would inevitably pour down its smooth, steep slopes and overwhelm the village in their boiling flood.

" Whilst all the constituted bodies of the third estate, municipalities, corporations, commissions of provincial assemblies, were overwhelming the king with their addresses in favor of the people's rights, the Prince of Conti, whose character always bore him into reaction against the current of public opinion, had put himself at the head of the opposition of the courtiers.

" The singing was frequently interrupted with the tears and sobbings of the melted people, until finally it was wholly arrested, and a tumult of emotion overwhelmed the congregation.

It would overwhelm some women; but it won't younot if you're the same Honora I played with when I was a boy.

Is it a Christian duty to permit an avalanche of evils to overwhelm the Church on the plea of toleration?

The mighty wall enclosing them faces the city wall of Rabat, looking at it across one of those great red powdery wastes which seem, in this strange land, like death and the desert forever creeping up to overwhelm the puny works of man.

Crag on crag rises the vast pilesuch jagged and pointed rocks as never man found on earth, or, if he found, could climbtopped with a peak that towers to the heavens, and leansvisibly leansand threatens to fall and overwhelm the weak world at its feet.

Were the great waters of the Adriatic uprising in vengeance to overwhelm this city in her sin?

243 collocations for  overwhelming