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

But in the course of about two hundred days, the internal combustion was overmastered for lack of fuel; the chemical combinations, which might have gone on for ages causing weak but incessant outbreaks, were completed and their power exhausted.

The saddle nearly overmastered her; it was heavy, and she knew as little of it as did any city girl.

The startling suddenness of the proposition that Ralph was living had, for the time being, overmastered her.

Emotion had overmastered my voice.

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

At certain times his natural disposition overmastered him, especially when in his harem surrounded by his wives and servants, when he was accustomed to say openly all that was in his heart.

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

At last his appetite overmastered him and he almost rushed into a saloon, and waited impatiently till he was served.

But at length a good constitution and careful nursing overmastered disease, and she showed signs of recovery.

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 felt, as feeble natures always do in the presence of strong ones, overmastered, circumscribed, shut in, humbled; but yet it seemed as if the old Doctor did not despise him any more for what he considered weakness of mind than he used to despise him when he complained of his nerves or his digestion.

This fear so overmastered him that it led him to the gaming-table, andfor her sakehe became a professional gambler, hoping to lay by a vast fortune for her future use.

" He was almost overmastered by the temptation to forget everything except his love for her; to let himself be persuaded that his ghastly surmise was a product of his own fatigue and sleepless nights.

She stuttered and halted as she always did when overmastered by feeling, but her words were molten.

Vacillating between love for Mosby and respect for Arden, she repents, and goes on sinning; wishes to get disentangled, but is overmastered by Mosby's stronger will.

Disguised as a servant, he visited Dalgetty and M'Eagh in the dungeon, but the prisoners overmastered him, bound him fast, locked him in the dungeon, and escaped.

Soon afterwards, Brit'omart and Talus rest in Dolon's castle for the night, and Dolon, mistaking Britomart for Sir Artegal, sets upon her in the middle of the night, but is overmastered.

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.

Listen then; for though to baffle Thy desire were my intention, By my miseries overmastered, I am forced to tell my secret; Not so much have I been granted License to avow my sufferings, But I am, as 't were commanded Thus to break my painful silence, Doing honestly, though sadly, Willingly the fact disclosing, Which by force had been extracted.

A torrent of emotion overmastered him.

Sir Marmaduke already felt himself overmastered.

Beyond this, and better than all, was a tender, sympathetic sensibility; which, if it sometimes overmastered him, made him the master of others.

Command me, and I will do anything for you; I will run errands for you, black your boots, anything" he cried in the ecstasy of delight that overmastered him.

The wit, the elegance, the finely turned phrase, the shifting smilethese things are still visible there no doubt, but they are informed and overmastered by a new, an almost ominous spirit: Voltaire, for the first time in his life, is serious.