He believed Hill to be a cunning scoundrel who had overreached the police for some purpose of his own by accusing Birchill, and who, to make his story more probable, had even implicated himself in the supposed burglary as a terrorised accomplice.

But Louis thought that all the advantages of the treaty were on his side, and that he had overreached Edward by sending him out of France on such easy terms.

In his anticipation the young man had overreached the necessities of the situation.

But how has he overreached himself in his machinations!

Well, it is time, I daresay, when I permit myself to be duped and overreached by police spies like your persevering father and lover.

In nominating the members of the two councils, he had overreached himself in his plan for silently sapping the liberty that was so obnoxious to his designs.

But Theophilus Clamp was not born to be overreached by one of the weaker sex.

In his eagerness to make Queen Elizabeth a monster of treacherous rapacity, Froude has completely overreached himself, He says that 'she permitted some miserable scoundrel to lay a plan before her for saving expense, by cutting down the seamen's diet.'

The propagandists of Slavery overreached themselves when they compelled the people of the North to be their accomplices.

He had, in fact, been overreached by a noted commercial house, who dealt heavily in Indian goods in New York, who sold him the goods on credit; but who actually collected the specie from the western land offices, on public drafts, before the year expired.

And he has overreached himself at last.

"What the devil can have made you so forward, if you had not some sly purpose to answer, by which I am to be overreached?" "My purpose," replied Mr. Falkland, "is a manly and an honest purpose.

He had no desire of any reputation but that of an acute prognosticator of the changes in the funds; nor had any means of raising merriment, but by telling how somebody was overreached in a bargain by his father.

" As in New York, the police here overreached themselves in their zeal, and arrested a well-known society girl, whom they caught walking arm-in-arm with a striking waist-maker.

"The ancient cipher has overreached himself.

However, it seems he overreached himself."

How do you mean he overreached himself?" "Haven't you seen the afternoon papers?

He who had fasted, prayed, and endured, waiting for his Witness, for the spreading of the heavens and the glory of the open vision, had overreached himself and was cast down.

Count Achrenthal had overreached himself, and moreover the wind had already been taken out of his sails by the public recantation on Serbia's part of its pretensions to Bosnia, which, as already mentioned, took place at the end of March 1909, and by the simultaneous termination of the international crisis marked by Russia's acquiescence in the fait accompli of the annexation.

He was overreached by his own shrewdness; and the hitherto unlucky "bulls," who had had small cause to laugh, thought that it was "sport to see the engineer Hoist with his own petard," better even than to have tossed him on their own horns.

The consciousness that hethe man of all others who prided himself upon his sagacityhad been so easily overreached was quite as humiliating as the idea of ruin itself.

There he had overreached himself; it was his own stocks which he had thrown down to the "bears."

They are not easily overreached.

When Banker went back to the prison cell, he was still firmly convinced that he had been overreached by his former captain, Raminez; and, although he knew it not, there were good reasons for his convictions.

It may, indeed, be wondered at that he and his Janissaries should be allowed to retain all their ill-gotten booty, under the name of private property; but Count de Bourmont, though not without talent, was essentially a weak man, and was in this instance overreached by the wily Moor.