Overwhelmed

Examples

• My sweet little lady overwhelmed me with dismay; her air of native elegance froze my very marrow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We heard without sympathy the protestations with which he tried next to persuade us that the disclosure of the conspiracy had overwhelmed him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But they were overwhelmed at last, as was the whole British army by this time. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The job had overwhelmed him a little. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He had actually arrived at twelve o'clock, and appeared to be overwhelmed by the unexpected tragedy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She was overwhelmed with a sense of a heavenful of riches. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Overwhelmed by the exquisite triumph of having got him back among us, I let him do what he liked with my hands. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the changes in which they are caught and whose significance or connections they do not perceive. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The face exposed her as much as if it had been her whole person, with the soul behind it: Archer stood dumb, overwhelmed by what it suddenly told him. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It would have been a charity to the living had the river overwhelmed me and borne her up. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Poor women go, and don't care if they are seen overwhelmed with grief. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Mr. van der Luyden seemed overwhelmed by the announcement. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Some persons, hearing what I now heard, would have been probably overwhelmed with astonishment. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was a mighty fighter, but a multitude of green warriors of another horde than his overwhelmed him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• She was so completely overwhelmed, that I was obliged to take her from them, and carry her to the door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• To her eyes, to any eyes, I must have looked like a man overwhelmed by the discovery of his own guilt. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It isn't made or trimmed, sighed Meg, faintly, for a sudden recollection of the cost still to be incurred quite overwhelmed her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Once more he essayed the effort, but a qualm of nausea overwhelmed him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• They were overwhelmed by the antipathy of visible and audible death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In truth, we were almost TOO nicely off for Trousers; we were quite overwhelmed by them. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Now for the first time I saw the full extent of my task, and I was overwhelmed by what I had brought on myself. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• His army was overwhelmed by the Philistine archers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His face still betrayed plain traces of the shock that had overwhelmed him at the Opera. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The loss of the Diamond seems to have quite overwhelmed Rachel, she said, in reply to Mr. Franklin. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Plenty overwhelmed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Mr. Soames was somewhat overwhelmed by this flood of information. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Gradgrind overwhelmed him with thanks, of course; and hinted as delicately as he could, at a handsome remuneration in money. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The bare idea of such a calamity as this quite overwhelmed me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We parted, overwhelmed with grief; and I think Miss Mills enjoyed herself completely. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It would be hopeless for me, Louisa, to endeavour to tell you how overwhelmed I have been, and still am, by what broke upon me last night. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.

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