113 examples of overreach in sentences

For thus men sometimes overreach themselves through greed and guile.

" "Just so; his readers soon overreach themselves.

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

He believed that God's eye was on him; therefore he dared not oppress or overreach any man.

The more laughable blunders a man shall commit in your company, the more tests he giveth you, that he will not betray or overreach you.

That cunning, as has just been observed, is apt to overreach itself, has passed into a proverb; and the case of Jacopo and his employers was one in point to prove its truth.

Thus men too much practised in the interests of life, constantly overreach themselves when brought in contact with the simple and intelligent; and the experience of every day proves that, as there is no fame permanent which is not founded on virtue, so there is no policy secure which is not bottomed on the good of the whole.

[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.

In his best comedy, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, he achieved great popularity and gave us one figure, Sir Giles Overreach, which is one of the typical characters of the English stage.

reculer pour mieux sauter [Fr.], circumvent, steal a march upon; overreach &c 545; throw off one's guard; surprise &c 508; snatch a verdict; waylay, undermine, introduce the thin end of the wedge; play a deep game, play tricks with; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces

It is like overreach of language, when every thin tinder-cloaked quack must be called a doctor; when a clumsy cobbler usurps the attribute of our English peers, and is vamped a translator.

There cannot be a doubt that each party sought to overreach the other.

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.

Sir Giles Overreach thought she would marry his nephew Wellborn, but she married lord Lovel.

Tom Allworth, stepson of lady Allworth, in love with Margaret Overreach, whom he marries.

Whom did I overreach in business yesterday?

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.

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

My experience is that it's hard to overreach a man that isn't on the hog himself.

In this society each person is either totally indifferent to his neighbour or secretly endeavouring to injure or overreach him.

He was therefore extremely indignant at this apparent discovery of an attempt to overreach him in a boy so promising and so much of a favorite as Eric Williams.

I knew, however, that presently he must overreach himself, so of set purpose I kept my blade short, and let him approach nearer.

Although they would scorn to commit a robbery, yet they think it only fair to deceive or overreach in a bargain.

I never thought of it until I was living there face to face with the old fool I was intending to overreach.

"As the seed time, so the reaping, Shame on us who overreach, While our eyes yet smart with weeping, Hearts so all our own to teach, Better they and we lay sleeping where the darkness hath no speech!"

113 examples of  overreach  in sentences