Sentence example with the word 'overbore'

overbore

Last update: October 10, 2015


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" He never justified a prejudice; he never misdirected our admiration; he never hurt an innocent feeling or overbore a serious judgment; and he set up within us a standard of Christian scholarship to which it must ever exalt us to aspire."   [Please select]

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They that lagged behind the scent--they that ran before, They that shunned the level horn--they that overbore.   [Please select]

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This so tickled Long Jack that he overbore Tom Platt, and the two went out together.   [Please select]

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He was armed, and they were not, but they overbore him and locked him up in the closet.   [Please select]

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He was the impersonation of intellect,--like Newton, Leibnitz, Spinoza, and Kant,--which overbore the impulses of his heart.   [Please select]

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The argument was horribly convincing, and yet, somehow, the desire to save Long-Hair overbore everything else in his mind.   [Please select]

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He pleaded so long and so hard, and so determinedly that he overbore the other man, and finally wrung from him a grudging assent to his request.   [Please select]

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