Overcame

Examples

• Fear overcame me; I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I neither spoke or looked, but sat motionless, bewildered by the multitude of miseries that overcame me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Fred Lamb was waiting at the door, and his joy, on perceiving my carriage, overcame all his late vexation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But when he was summoned to surrender by a band of guerillas, his constitutional weakness overcame him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The name re-pronounced by his lips overcame me unaccountably. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was as if some subterranean dislike overcame them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Yet, as I drew nearer home, grief and fear again overcame me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This I overcame with my loop-setter invention. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A terrible weariness overcame him, he felt he must lie on the floor. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• An unutterable suspicion that his mind is prying into mine overcomes me at these times, and it overcame me now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• That let all the fumes and chemicals out and overcame the firemen; and there was the devil to pay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• By degrees, though very slowly, I at last overcame my strange emotion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He, who had always inspired in herself a respect which almost overcame her affection, she now saw the object of open pleasantry. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I saw you matched against an Apollyon of a predilection; you fought a good fight, and you overcame! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The Feeder invention overcame this trouble, and made it possible to use conductors ONLY ONE-EIGHTH THE SIZE that would otherwise have been necessary to produce the same results. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Richard's eyes sparkled with indignation, but his better nature overcame it. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But gravitation overcame momentum. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The guards quickly overcame and killed the majority of us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But the agony of my wound overcame me; my pulses paused, and I fainted. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He overcame his four tiger whelps with ease, and with no other hurt than the loss of a portion of his scalp. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Yeobright overcame his repugnance, for Susan had at least borne his mother no ill-will. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The heat overcame me. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It seemed as if the thought of him upset all her composure, destroyed the calm, overcame the exhaustion. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• This last blow overcame her; and she knelt by Beaufort's coffin, weeping bitterly, when my father entered the chamber. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Ah, cried one, so this is the creature who overcame the great Xodar bare-handed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Walking, riding, the common occupations of life, overcame him: he felt no pain, but seemed to tremble for ever on the verge of annihilation. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• A terrible desire for pure love overcame her again. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Gradually, but surely, he overcame the level ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It ain't no fault of ours, neither, but---- At this point Lily's impatience overcame her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But after a moment the sense of waste and ruin overcame him. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

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