In this manner do communities, like individuals, draw near their dissolution, inattentive to the symptoms of decay, until they are overtaken with that fate which finally overwhelms empires and their power in the common lot of man.

The Khilafat wrong affects the Mussalmans of India, and the Punjab calamity very nearly overwhelms the manhood of India.

" Whatever business overwhelms the counsel, no amount of it would disconcert the clerk, and it is wonderful how many briefs he can arrange in upstanding attitude along mantelpieces, tables, tops of dwarf cupboards, windowsanywhere, in fact, where there is anything to stand a brief onwithout that gentleman feeling the least exhausted.

With George Eliot law is like fate; it overwhelms personal freedom and inclination.

Each time it invariably overwhelms and astounds.

A faith in something greater, in a future though unknown destiny, beyond this life, a faith in eternity,in short, an all-absorbing larger aspiration, overwhelms that petty faith which we might term personal, that faith in the morrow, that sort of goad that spurs on irresolute minds, and that is so needful if one must struggle and exist and accomplish something in this world." [Footnote 1: Obras, vol.

Utterly unanticipated, at least in its world extent, for we had believed mankind too far advanced for such a chaos of brute force to recur, it overwhelms our vision.

LORD B. Such kind forethought, Madam, overwhelms me!

"Oh, Jane," I whispered, "my sorrow I could bear; but this strange happiness overwhelms me.

But he overwhelms all other lands of the world.

that hates without a cause, that overwhelms innocence with calamities which ought to be spared even to guilt!

A writer in the London Lancet ridicules a habit of being in great haste and terribly pressed for time which is common among all classes of commercial men, and argues that in most cases there is not the least cause for it, and that it is done to convey a notion of the tremendous volume of business which almost overwhelms the house.

The perfect idiocy of the thing overwhelms you.

So Charlotte sat alone all evening in the schoolroom at Stonegappe, a small figure hidden in pure white, billowy seas of muslin, and lamented thus: "She cares nothing in the world about me except to contrive how the greatest possible quantity of labour may be squeezed out of me, and to that end she overwhelms me with oceans of needlework, yards of cambric to hem, muslin night-caps to make, and above all things, dolls to dress."

"The worst of all the things that haunt poor mortal man," said I; "and that is, in all its nakednessFear that will not have light nor sound, that will not bear with reason, that deafens and darkens and overwhelms.

If this has come to pass she overwhelms him with caresses at the first meeting.

I have not seen and do not see here anything but what overwhelms me, and I feel still more wretched for having been the witness of it.

The central idea, then, of the sonnet is, "If the sad fate which now overwhelms me should bring a pang to your heart, do not weep, for I die a glorious death and sound the last note of my lyre to you."

When any passion violently overwhelms the soul, the person who feels it, always speaks sententiously, avoids repetitions, and is not capable of much recollection, at least of making a minute detail of circumstances.

The discouraging thing is that the public is fickle and changeable, and any temporary feeling overwhelms the patient efforts of years.

GEORGE literally overwhelms the place, breaks out everywhere; began at earliest moment with question of precedence.

The village itself is inoffensive, the country about is attractive; but the crowdthe crowd that comes in summercomes with a rush almost to the hour in July, and takes flight with a greater rush almost to the minute in August,the crowd overwhelms, submerges, ignores the natural charms of the place, and for the time being nature hides its honest head before the onrush of sham and illusion.

This river is on the borders of Paria, and descends with such force from the high mountains that it overwhelms the sea even at high tide or when it is swept by violent winds, driving back the waves before the fury and weight of its current.

On the other hand, almost all chimneys can be made to smoke by a careless nurse, who lets the fire get low and then overwhelms it with coal; not, as we verily believe, in order to spare herself trouble, (for very rare is unkindness to the sick), but from not thinking what she is about.

For one sensible person there are a thousand fools, and for one sensible word there are a thousand stupid ones; the thousand overwhelms the one, and that is why cities and villages progress so slowly.