Canst thou forget thy habits; overstep the diffidence of thy years and condition; stand and speak fearlessly in the presence of the great and dreaded?" "Reverend Carmelite, I speak daily without fear, though not without awe, to one more to be dreaded than any in Venice.

Their rationalism cannot prove anything else, and if it did, it would be with too much zeal, it would overstep the limits.

Each plane had its regular orbit of action, and must not overstep the bounds on penalty of the commander's displeasure.

But if every man know his place and his duty, and none overstep it, there will come thereof successful and happy voyages.

"You let your woman's vindictiveness overstep your natural caution, my dear girl.

And in their measures of precaution they are farther bound to depart from or overstep the ordinary law as little as is compatible with the attainment of their object.

But actions or courses of action which, even if they may be thought to overstep the law, transgress it so narrowly as to elude conviction, can only be reached by enactments which also go in some degree beyond the ordinary law; and, so going beyond it, are to that extent encroachments on the ordinary privileges and rights of the subject, and suspensions of the constitution.

Although the subject has reached the limits we have by the very nature of this work assigned to it, we think it well to overstep them somewhat, in order briefly to indicate the last connecting link between modern fashions and those of former periods.

I will only venture to repeat the statement which I made at starting; that if the whole of the Christian literature for the first three quarters of the second century could be blotted out, and Irenaeus and Tertullian alone remained, as well as the later manuscripts with which to compare them, there would still be ample proof that the latest of our Gospels cannot overstep the bounds of the first century.

The same consideration applies with augmented force to a class of appropriations which are in their nature peculiarly prone to run to excess, and which, being made in the exercise of incidental powers, have intrinsic tendency to overstep the bounds of constitutionality.

It is well known that there have always been those amongst us who wish to enlarge the powers of the General Government, and experience would seem to indicate that there is a tendency on the part of this Government to overstep the boundaries marked out for it by the Constitution.

Some time they will overstep the mark.

Fearful lest our young sailors should go too far, he instructed the Commodore not to overstep the strict line of defence.

Though on my heaving breast They lean their heads, they'll lean them uncaressed; We'll part, nor overstep the auscultation test.

Yet I never met a woman either so clever as not to overstep the artistic proportions in her confession, or so sincere as not to tell lies in order to justify herself.

It is true she does not give me any encouragement, but now and then I kiss her hands, her feet; she is compelled to listen to words of love, obliged to have secrets from her husband and her mother, and always control herself and me lest I might overstep the boundary.

I have no right to overstep the boundary, and I am afraid to do so; suppose she too thought the same?

He appears to think himself justified in taking these liberties with the Muse of History by his anxiety to construct a narrative that should not overstep the bounds of probability.

But he was not to be deterred from his purpose, and he went on: "Pardon me, if I seem to overstep the bounds of courtesy; but I cannot let you go in this way, Alice,for so I must call you.

"Very well," replied Friend Hopper, "thou art at liberty to proceed according to law; but be careful not to overstep that boundary.

The thing can be overdone, though, and both the wasps and the rats of Harwan were inclined to overstep the bounds of decorum.

It seems to me that to deny His existence is to overstep the boundaries of our thought-power almost as much as to try and define it.

I don't think I overstep the mark when I say some of 'em smiled a kindly smile.

He had never known his master so far overstep his usual caution, as to quit the dwelling, during the occasional visits of the free-trader; and yet he had now gone as it were into the very jaws of the lion, accompanied by the commander of a royal cruiser himself.

While the General Government should abstain from the exercise of authority not clearly delegated to it, the States should be equally careful that in the maintenance of their rights they do not overstep the limits of powers reserved to them.