Deacon Pratt was known to be wealthy in a small way; was thought to possess his thirty or forty thousand dollars, which was regarded as wealth among the east-enders thirty years since; and every human being in Old Suffolk, whether of its overwhelming majority or of its more select and wiser minority, who could by legal possibility claim any right to be remembered by the dying man, crowded around his bed-side.

She, therefore, gazed at Verty with more overwhelming dignity than ever, and not deigning to make any reply to his rhapsody, sailed by with a stiff inclination of the head, toward the door.

This was Redbud's Bibleand she had been reading it; and had raised her happy eyes from the black heavy letters, to the waving variegated trees and the bright sunrise, overwhelming them with its flush of gold.

Alphonso Jinks made overwhelming efforts to get at his enemy.

Verty seemed to feel great respect for this overwhelming grief; at least he did not utter any commonplace consolations.

The deputies of the Third Estate were bent on the destruction of feudalism, as the only way to remedy the national evils, which were so glaring and overwhelming.

But Napoleon was more adroit; he appealed to the people themselves, recognizing them as the source of power, and they confirmed his usurpation by an overwhelming majority.

Ay, Heaven heard,the God whom he ignored,and sent a retribution as signal and as prompt and as awful as his victories had been overwhelming.

But amid all the reforms which took place in England, in France, in Belgium, in Piedmont, Austria remained stationary, so cemented was the power of Metternich, so overwhelming was his influence,the one central figure in Germany for eighteen years longer.

In Russia, Prussia, and Austria an overwhelming army, bound together by the mechanism which absolutism for centuries had perfected, could repress disorder; but in a country where the army was comparatively small, enlightened by the ideas of the Revolution and fraternizing with the people, this was not possible.

The contest was like that of the Maccabees against the overwhelming armies of Syria.

In the presidential election of 1840 Mr. Van Buren was defeated by an overwhelming majority, and the Whigs came into power under the presidency of General Harrison, chosen not for talents or services, but for his availability.

The physical effect of it on Hilda was nearly overwhelming.

Yet nearly every correspondent in Petrograd sent the most confident news of an overwhelming victory.

Such are the results of the overwhelming preponderance of Russia, imposed upon Europe by its interference in Hungary.

He dared not face the obloquy consequent on withdrawal from an enterprise on which the popular hopes had been fixed; and therefore he allowed a reverse to be converted into an overwhelming disaster.

The victories which the British fleet was to gain were generally to be overwhelming; if not, they were looked upon as almost defeats.

Yet so overwhelming was the strength of Great Britain and France on the sea that Russia never attempted to employ her navy against them.

A few years later it suffered an overwhelming disaster.

When it swelled into that vast strife and agony, as one may call it, that boils along the tortured streets of modern London or other capitals, men began to see the necessity of an adequate counterforce to push against this overwhelming torrent, and thus maintain the equilibrium.

I have found then and at other times that in such moments, though the mind be occupied entirely by one overwhelming thought, yet the eyes take in, as it were unwittingly, all that lies before them, so that we can afterwards recall a face or landscape of which at the time we took no note.

The heat is overwhelming between the Tuileries and the Hôtel de Villethat is, over the space of about a mile.

In overwhelming grief at this Gallus committed suicide before the decrees took effect.

That he authorized these provisions not in anger but as really conducive to the public good he gave overwhelming evidence.

In the dark reaches beyond the orbit of Pluto, in the near-absolute zero of space, the Starmen will finally encounter the overwhelming power of the true enemies of Earth.