Despite its superior weapons and mode of warfare, the German east Baltic colony was constantly in danger of being overborne by the endless assaults of the dogged aborigines, whose hatred of the religion of the Cross as preached by the knights is very intelligible; and in 1218 Bishop Albert of Riga was driven to appeal for assistance to King Valdemar. [Please select]
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Colonel Butler and the few who stood with him were overborne. [Please select]
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John was overborne. [Please select]
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Thus overborne, the boat-builder took the envelope, though his pride revolted. [Please select]
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For a time I refused, but I was overborne. [Please select]
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Overborne by strain, fatigue, and the weight beyond his years, Kim broke down and sobbed at the lama's feet. [Please select]
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Turkey seemed almost to have weathered the storm when she was suddenly overborne by further intervention on the other side. [Please select]
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Cranmer would have modified it, if he could; but, being overborne by the Romish party, had not the power. [Please select]
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In every vigorous measure that he proposed Dinwiddie backed him, and the other governors, overborne by their will, gave their consent. [Please select]
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The captain killed several of the Indians with his knife, and was the last to fall, overborne in the end by numbers. [Please select]
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Your husband has made a scene, and overborne you, and is trying to force you back into the hen-yard of domestic virtue. [Please select]
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