That is the profound mathematical mystery, that is the riddle beyond the wit of Westminster, which overpowers these fine intelligences and sets them babbling of "senior wranglers."

Oh change and time are storms For lives so thin and frail as ours; For change the work of grace deforms With love that soils, and help that overpowers; And time is strong, and, like some chafing sea, It seems to fret the shores of Thine eternity.

Unfortunately for others who might stray across our borders, the smell overpowers them in seconds, rendering any potential invader helpless.

It degrades the mind, tramples upon the morals, overpowers the will, and destroys life itself. 304.

See how the sun-god Overpowers The summer lying Deep in flowers; With burning kisses Of bright gold Fills her young womb With joy untold; And all the world Is lad and lass, A blue sky And a couch of grass.

The impressive earnestness which overpowers the mind when eternal and momentous truths are the subjects of discourse binds people together with a force of sympathy which cannot be produced by the sublimity of a mountain or the beauty of a picture.

She had yet to learn that at such times violence always overpowers moderation, and that the worse men are, the more certain are they to obtain the upper hand.

How says Medea? "'Tis true I know what evil I shall do, But passion overpowers the better counsel.

But show me that he who has the inferior principles overpowers him who is superior in principles.

Such works of art as it has are not very noticeable, or at any rate do not insist upon being seen; but in its vastness it overpowers.

The Palazzo Vecchio, for example, so overpowers the Loggia de' Lanzi in size as to draw the eye from that perfect structure.

As soon as he could find words, he said, "Your goodness completely overpowers me, dearest Amabel.

For slavery overpowers the disgust of the moral sentiment only through immemorial usage.

While the existence of these offences overpowers them with grief and confusion, they never permit themselves to feel the smallest indignation or dislike towards the offenders.

And so with men, with or without their will, their mercifulness overpowers their logic.

id. "As Sisyphus uprols a rock, which constantly overpowers him at the summit.

The last phrase, "without the solemn impression," &c., which is subjoined by "without" to "cannot look," embraces likewise a subordinate, relative clause,"that fixes and overpowers him,"which has two verbs; the whole, antecedent and all, being but an adjunct of an adjunct, yet an essential element of the sentence.

I know it is not to be accounted for physically, but I do actually see it, though my lids are dosed, and so it rocks my mind, as it were, and overpowers me, and I am obliged to rise from my knees.

Yonder green is the swede, or turnip, or mangold; but frequent as are the fields of roots, the golden tint overpowers the green.

It is the beauty and strangeness of life that overpowers the artist.

Not by some irresistible impulse, which overpowers the action of human will, or by some new revelation, which would render unnecessary the ordinary means of religious instruction; but by the lessons of His holy word, which is brought to the mind in the moment of requirement; for the Holy Spirit brings to our remembrance whatsoever is there revealed for our comfort and instruction.

We see every hour those in whom the desire of present indulgence overpowers all sense of past and all foresight of future misery.

The mere antiquity of Asiatic things, of their institutions, histories, modes of faith, etc., is so impressive that, to me, the vast age of the race and name overpowers the sense of youth in the individual.

He sweeps me off my feet with his love, his vivid personality overpowers my more commonplace self, but through all the bewildering intoxication of my engagement and marriage a little mocking devil, a cool, cynical, little devil, is constantly whispering in my ear: "You fool, you fool, to imagine you can escape unhappiness!

There is a power in a saint, because Christ is in him, that overpowers all the powers of darkness without, and all the power of indwelling corruption within, so that when the poor weak creature is ready to despond; within sight of his duty, and say, because of difficulty, what is my strength that I should hope?