Sentence example with the word 'overmastering'

overmastering

Last update: September 3, 2015


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He inspired his preachers and his people with his own spirit and made everything subordinate to his overmastering purpose, the spread of scriptural holiness throughout the land.   [Please select]

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An overmastering sense of the ludicrous inclined him to take the world lightly.   [Please select]

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It would give Sylvia pleasure, and that had come to be the overmastering passion of the Old Lady's heart.   [Please select]

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Phil had been a drunkard; he was drunk now with the calculate madness of overmastering fear.   [Please select]

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Eponine, it must be owned, has an overmastering fondness for fish, a taste she shares in common with all her race.   [Please select]

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The offer was indeed made under a sudden and overmastering impulse.   [Please select]

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Again did the stress of overmastering emotion make of me a child, as it had done on the night of the landslip.   [Please select]

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There are passions so overmastering that they stifle speech, and man sinks back to the animal.   [Please select]

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Katherine rose to her feet, filled, for the moment, by an immense compassion for her own womanhood, by an overmastering longing for sympathy.   [Please select]

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At the sound of Toomey's voice, soothing yet overmastering, the great wolf would lie down quietly, and the ghostly summons of his far-ravaging fathers would haunt his spirit no more.   [Please select]

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