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Short sentences using overcame

Shame and grief overcame her. [4]
Curiosity overcame him. [9]

More example sentences with the word overcame in them

What we wanted we got not by defying the world, but by conforming to it: we were ready to defy only when our desires overcame the resistance of our synapses, and even then not until we should have exhausted every legal and conventional means. [9]
Sir Ozana's saddle was hung about with leather hat boxes, and every time he overcame a wandering knight he swore him into my service and fitted him with a plug and made him wear it. [5]
Sellers was conducted to this cell by the matron and looked in, his emotions quite overcame him, the tears rolled down his cheeks and his voice trembled so that he could hardly speak. [5]
She was about to make a quiet, severe reply, but something overcame her, and her eyes, her face, suddenly glowed. [11]
As the heavy time wore on, exhaustion overcame us, and we slept in our saddles. [5]
For the first time in his life that knowledge overcame him which masters us all sometimes. [11]
For the fiftieth time he had waited supper for you two in vain, and in the twilight, when he had done work, his grief overcame him, and to see him weep is quite heartbreaking! [10]
He overcame it this time for fear of betraying his secret to his young wife, and retired to his own apartment early. [10]
So strong was this thing that it overcame and drove off the evil spirits of that darkened house as she descended the stairs to join Mr. Tiernan, who opened the door for her to pass out. [9]
For a moment they confronted each other without speaking, then Rosalie's natural courtesy, her instinctive good-heartedness, overcame her irritation, and she said quietly: "Good-evening, Madame. [11]
He soon overcame the trivial objections made by the philosopher and, fifteen minutes after they had left the Corner of the Muses, he was permitted to open the door of his house to his guests, and he did so with genuine pleasure. [10]
Paradoxically, I saw the human side of her, the yielding gentleness that always amazed me, yet I never overcame my awe of the divine; she was a being sacrosanct. [9]
Momentarily he overcame the feeling of superiority with which I had entered his presence; neutralized the sense I had of being associated now with the higher powers which had put him where he was. [9]
When I overcame the Bashaw of Nalbrits in Tartaria, the charitable Lady Callamata supplyed my necessities. [4]
For an instant she seemed not to comprehend, and then a flood of motherly feeling overcame her. [4]
Yet once again she said the word scarcely above a whisper, for the look of rapt wonder and apprehension in his manner overcame her. [11]
At last, however, she overcame her emotion and said: "So it was when M'sieu' Felix Marchand came up from the Sagalac. [11]
She became a regular attendant on the ministrations of a very worthy clergyman, having been attracted to his meetin' by witnessing a marriage ceremony in which he called a man and a woman a "gentleman" and a "lady,"--a stroke of gentility which quite overcame her. [6]
Nicholas immediately recognized Princess Mary not so much by the profile he saw under her bonnet as by the feeling of solicitude, timidity, and pity that immediately overcame him. [2]
With the earliest pipe of dawn he sought his patch, and when the curtaining night drove him from it he shut himself up with his books and garnered statistics till sleep overcame him. [5]
Its master quite overcame us with thanks when we gave him a few centimes on leaving. [4]
Gradually her confidence overcame his backwardness, and he had the temerity to stroke her golden curls with a great hand. [13]
At last sleep overcame him too, and a sweet dream showed him pretty little Arsinoe, who but for him must infallibly have been killed by the Numidian's restive horse, taking away her sister Selene's almond-cake and giving it to him. [10]
Whenever my missionaries overcame a knight errant on the road they washed him, and when he got well they swore him to go and get a bulletin-board and disseminate soap and civilization the rest of his days. [5]
And presently, when my father went out to attend a trustee's meeting, the impulse to confide in her almost overcame me; I loved her with that affection which goes out to those whom we feel understand us, but I was learning to restrain my feelings. [9]
Was it because Love was greater than all, deeper than all, overcame all, forgave all? [11]
At this time Laflamme was stealing watchfully through the tropical scrub, where hanging vines tore his hands, and the sickening perfume of jungle flowers overcame him more than the hard journey which he had undergone during the past twelve hours. [11]
Venters saw, and knew that Lassiter saw, how Jane Withersteen's tortured soul wrestled with hate and threw it--with scorn doubt, suspicion, and overcame all. [13]
His regard for Kit, however, overcame every other consideration. [12]
The Call filled it, drained through it, wrapped it, overcame it; so that it sank away at last like the outwash of an exhausted tide: the weft of battle stayed unfinished in the loom. [11]
At last, as if the memories of France, "beloved and incomparable," overcame him, he dwelt upon the bitter glory of the Revolution. [11]
This day the horrible appearance of the battlefield overcame that strength of mind which he thought constituted his merit and his greatness. [2]
Gradually, but surely, he overcame the level ground. [5]
Ruth could have had no such thought, for with a pity in her sweet face, that for the moment overcame fear and disgust, she reverently replaced the covering, and went away to her own table, as her companion did to hers. [5]
As the one great passion went out like smoke, the woman he loved, whom he had given to the lions, the memory of her, some haunting part of her, possessed him, overcame him. [11]
I cannot forbear giving a specimen of the way in which he overcame difficulties. [5]
He overcame his four tiger whelps with ease, and with no other hurt than the loss of a portion of his scalp. [5]
She despised herself for being so agitated, and for the furtive feeling that overcame her as she glanced about to be sure that she was alone, and then she ran up stairs to her room and locked the document in her own writing-desk. [4]
No wonder she felt out of place among them, and once more the longing to fly away to Coniston almost overcame her. [9]
At this thought fear overcame her for the first time. [10]
We overcame by degrees the distastefulness of the discussion of ways and means.... We spent an unforgettable Sunday among the distant high hills, beside a little lake of our own discovery, its glinting waters sapphire and chrysoprase. [9]
The wilful, splendid character of the youth overcame the insistence in the other's nature. [11]
But when he came to pronounce the vote, shame and sorrow and mortification overcame him. [9]
That he overcame by appointing senior midshipmen before the Ariadne was out of the Channel. [11]
He had white blood in his veins--fighting Irish blood--which sometimes overcame his smooth, Oriental secretiveness and cautious duplicity; and this was one of those occasions. [11]
By and by a drowsiness overcame him, and Venters began to nod, half asleep, with his back against a spruce. [13]

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