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Sentences starting with overcome

Overcome as she was, she went and brought me a peasant's hat and coat. [11]
Overcome by a sudden rush of emotion, she fell on her knees at his side, bursting into noiseless sobs, which shook her from head to foot. [11]
Overcome by shyness, she drew away from him. [9]
Overcome by the scene, we all raised a triumphant, tremendous shout, in unison. [5]
Overcome by an impulse he could not control, he got up and went toward her, but she avoided him. [9]
Overcome by chagrin, I turned and flew into the house and upstairs into my room, locking the door behind me. [9]
Overcome with fatigue, I must have slept soundly. [4]
Overcome by his exertions, he wheezed so tremendously that great billows of excitement raised his waistcoat, and a perspiration broke out upon his mealy face, making a paste which the sun, through the open doorway, immediately began to bake into a crust. [11]

Sentences ending with overcome

And as he wiped away her tears with his handkerchief he could scarcely believe his senses that this was the woman whose resistance had demanded all his force to overcome. [9]
It is something which others believe, and perhaps he himself thinks, he might overcome. [6]
Judge, you thought there was a passage between Scylla and Charybdis which your craftiness might overcome. [9]
The effects of the panic of the year before could not be overcome. [5]
When she read the letter, she sank to the floor, overcome. [11]
There was no seizure, but there was a certain dread and aversion, nothing more than a feeling which it might be hoped that time would overcome. [6]
He feared a repulse which could never be overcome. [11]
Under the tree Orlando listened with strained attention, absorbed and, at times, almost overcome. [11]
The universal sense of mankind on any subject is an argument, or at least an influence, not easily overcome. [7]
There were many objections to be overcome. [6]

Short sentences using overcome

Overcome, by his estimable lady. [6]
I was overcome. [11]

Sentences containing overcome two or more times

I have told you that I have just finished a long memoir, and that it has cost me no little labor to overcome some of its difficulties,--if I have overcome them, which others must decide. [6]

More example sentences with the word overcome in them

Endue him plenteously with Heavenly gifts; grant him in health and wealth long to live; strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies; and, finally, after this life, he may attain everlasting joy and felicity. [11]
The Widow smiled with a feeling of triumph at having overcome her difficulties and arranged her party,--arose and stood before her glass, three-quarters front, one-quarter profile, so as to show the whites of the eyes and the down of the upper lip. [6]
Now ye shall wit that that very duke and his six sons are they whom but few days past you also did overcome and send to Arthur's court! [5]
And no stone will be left unturned to discourage and overcome you. [9]
He had something which he thought would overcome us. [5]
He watched her when the baker, at last, overcome by his own feelings--and ashamed of them--got up and stole swiftly out of the garden. [11]
There were moments when I was almost overcome by surges of self-commiseration and of impotent anger: for instance, I was once driven out of a shop by an incensed German grocer whom I had asked to settle a long-standing account. [9]
Martina's eyes, too, were fixed on Orion; she saw how pale he turned at seeing the young widow, she saw him start as though suddenly overcome by some emotion--what, she could not guess--and shrink back from the sunlit vision in the window. [10]
If any one were fitted to overcome this prejudice, it was Mrs. Cooke. [9]
It may be well to mention that the Merrill relations, like Sally Broke, had overcome their dislike for Cynthia. [9]
He behaved very well in the regiment but was not liked; Rostov especially detested him and was unable to overcome or conceal his groundless antipathy to the man. [2]
With certain persons we are lifted up, inspired to face the battle of life and overcome its difficulties. [9]
Priest as he was, it is possible that De Casson shared the young man's feeling, though chastening years had overcome impulses of youth. [11]
Then the shade was pulled down, abruptly; and Janet, overcome by a sense of horror at her position, took to flight.... [9]
An external shock was needed to overcome that shame, and this shock came in due time. [2]
Not even money-necessity was able to overcome me on a couple of occasions when perhaps I ought to have allowed it to succeed. [5]
My father, unable to overcome his fatal shyness by any effort of will, had not the courage to withstand this unfairness until he was called home by his mother for his twenty-fifth birthday, and made use of the elixir. [10]
She listened attentively to every breath, and looked as if spell-bound into his face, until she was quite sure that sleep had completely overcome Caesar. [10]
It was not to be expected that these habits would be overcome without a long struggle and many back-slidings. [4]
In the mean time he felt the need of some present solace, such as only unqualified worship could give him; a cruel wish to feel his power in some direction where, even if it were resisted, it could not be overcome, drove him on. [8]
For a long time Fleda sat stunned and overcome by the side of the couch, her brain tortured by a thousand thoughts. [11]
I had never thought that wild Miriam could speak so sweetly, I was overcome with terrible grief, and kissed her eyes and her lips. [10]
She would have thought it more natural if she had found Melissa overcome by the horrors she had witnessed, half distraught or paralyzed by distress and rage. [10]
He was not thoroughly up in the backhanded stroke, but it was very gratifying to his numerous friends to know that, in time, practice would have overcome this defect. [5]
Fair knight, said they, that were we loath to do; for as for Sir Kay we chased him hither, and had overcome him had ye not been; therefore, to yield us unto him it were no reason. [5]
You fancy that there may be in heaven a place of glory for such as have never been overcome, and you would fain have seen Hermas among them. [10]
Among other witnesses, there is one who had a 'jumping toothache,' which several times tempted her to 'believe that there was sensation in matter, but each time it was overcome by the power of Truth. [5]
Among other witnesses there is one who had a "jumping toothache," which several times tempted her to "believe that there was sensation in matter, but each time it was overcome by the power of Truth. [5]
Having thus overcome their pursuer, they returned to the lodge. [5]
I was resisting the soft influences of the climate as well as I could, and endeavoring to overcome the desire to be indolent and happy. [5]
The genius of the great portrait-painter may to some extent overcome the disadvantages of contemporary costume, but if the costume of his period is hideous and lacks the essential lines of beauty, his work is liable to need the apology of quaintness. [4]
He struggled against the confession of his weakness but dimly felt that he could not overcome it and that his former gloomy frame of mind, concerning vengeance, killing, and self-sacrifice, had been dispersed like dust by contact with the first man he met. [2]
When Hermas had swung himself up into her room, she had started back in alarm; he had seized her hand and pressed his burning lips to her arm, and she let him do it, for she was overcome with strange bewilderment. [10]
It was so strong in this case that it alone could have overcome the Norman caution of Jean Jacques, and all his worldly wisdom (so much in his own eyes). [11]
He felt her stagger like a drunken creature, and he led her not into the fountain-room but to her bed-chamber, where she only begged to lie down; and hardly had she done so when she was again overcome by sleep. [10]
The cripples were speedily healed, and the four went their way, leaving the benevolent physician more overcome by pious wonder than ever. [5]
A noxious agent should never be employed in sickness unless there is ample evidence in the particular case to overcome the general presumption against all such agents, and the evidence is very apt to be defective. [6]
Even the fearful shock which their nerves had sustained was not sufficient to overcome their coolness and courage. [5]
Pale as death, she threw up her arms to protect herself, and then, overcome with terror and fatigue, with a faint cry of anguish she lost consciousness. [10]
And Honora, as she stood on the deck of the ferry-boat, approaching New York for the second time in her life, could not overcome a sense of oppression. [9]
I love, love..." she said, convulsively pressing her hands and setting her teeth with a desperate effort... She was overcome by sweet sorrow and tears were already rising in her eyes; then she suddenly asked herself to whom she was saying this. [2]
Startled and overcome, she had swayed, and would have fallen, but that with an effort of the will she had caught at the table and saved herself. [11]
Returning down the rocky steep, I descried, solitary in that great waste of rock and snow, the form of a lady whom I supposed I had left sleeping at the inn, overcome with the fatigue of yesterday's tramp. [4]
It is a river of desolation; and instead of reminding you, like other beautiful rivers, of an angel which has descended for the benefit of man, you imagine it a devil, whose energies have been only overcome by the wonderful power of steam. [5]
At last his resistance was overcome, and he consented to allow his name to be used. [9]
It shows how racial characteristics may clash, disturb, and destroy, and yet how wisdom, tact, and lucky incident may overcome almost impossible situations. [11]
But I was quite overcome at his suggestion. [9]
Partisanship must be overcome, and patriotism instilled in its place. [9]
Poor Susan was overcome, and gave herself up to weeping and sobbing. [6]
She was quite overcome with the startling horror, and Heliodora, who could herself scarcely stand, had to support her, for she tottered and would have fallen. [10]
Hastings was suddenly overcome with the shyness of youth. [9]
A young flute-player, overcome with sleep and wine, still sat in one corner. [10]
He was so overcome with gratitude that it seemed as if his very coattails wagged with his emotion. [6]
He was quite overcome by this treatment of a penniless young Yankee. [9]
If we are overcome by the heathen, ungodliness and brute force will boast themselves as though they had won the victory over righteousness and truth! [10]
There had been other ways to overcome this crisis, but he had rejected them for a course fantastic and fatal when looked at in the light of ordinary reason. [11]
I had several opportunities of perceiving how this nervousness was ingrained in her constitution, and how acutely she suffered in striving to overcome it. [14]
The spectacle of one, ordinarily so statue-like, thus trembling, stirred, and overcome, gave me a strange shock. [14]
I had something of this feeling, but at another hour I might perhaps be overcome by emotion, and weep, as my fellow-countryman did at the grave of the earliest of his ancestors. [6]
But America, youngest of the nations, was born when modern science was gathering the momentum which since has enabled it to overcome, with a bewildering rapidity, many evils previously held by superstition to be ineradicable. [9]
At length some of the courtiers forsook the hall, their grave demeanor being somewhat overcome by intoxication. [10]
After the death of her best-beloved lord the young widow was overcome with brooding melancholy from which nothing could rouse her. [10]
Presumptions are strong obstacles against any result we wish to attain, but half our work in life is to overcome them. [6]
But he had not reckoned on the warlike spirit of these men, who had overcome far greater difficulties in twenty fights ere this. [10]
Yet she could not overcome an emotion of rare pleasure when Frau Sabina, after beckoning to her husband, took her hand and led her into the reception room. [10]
There would be no strength in the world if there were no obstacles, and no man would know that he was strong if he could meet with no resistance to overcome. [10]
She could see no one, hear no one, but she began to tremble, and, overcome, she fell on her knees before the door, and, with her fingers on the foot of the little cross, prayed passionately; for herself, for Monsieur. [11]
I might get Nancy yet, beat down her resistance, overcome her, if only I could be near her and see her. [9]
I said to myself, Why should not I overcome this dread of woman as Peter the Great fought down his dread of wheels rolling over a bridge? [6]
It must slowly mould a public for itself; and the resistance of the early thoughtless judgments must be overcome by a counter-resistance to itself, in a better audience slowly mustering against the first. [6]
At this distressful moment a message came from the General, and I went to his tent, trying to calm myself, but overcome with apprehension. [11]
Many of these miserable men had passed forty years in this place, but most died soon, overcome by the hard work and the fearful extremes of heat and cold to which they were exposed on entering and leaving the mine. [10]
The same experiment might be tried at a dinner-party, namely, to ascertain if the total hum of low voices in the natural key would not be less for the individual voice to overcome than the total scream of all the voices raised to a shriek. [4]
It was all mechanical, vague, almost numb, this effort to overcome a mountain. [11]
Mr. Carvel himself lifted her out and kissed her, and handed her to her mother at the gate, who was vastly overcome by the circumstance. [9]
We cannot, as life is arranged, be perfectly happy, but we can be true to ourselves, and there is scarcely anything that resolution and patience cannot overcome. [4]
And suddenly, overcome less by the physical power than by the aspect of the clergyman, an expression of bewilderment came into his eyes, and he was quiet. [9]
And though he knew that many clergymen read these books, Hodder found it impossible to overcome a nervous sense of adventure,--nay (knowing his resolution), of apostasy, almost of clandestine guilt when he mentioned them. [9]
As he said it his face looked, in truth, overcome by some deep inward care; so that there came a sort of feeling she had never had so far for any man--that he ought to have someone to look after him. [11]
He had hid it from every one, until, at last, distress and pain had overcome him. [11]
So she laid it down on the workbench, and, overcome by a sudden shyness, retreated toward the door. [9]
Truth to say, Irene was so overcome by these greetings that she had not the strength to take a step forward when King at length approached her. [4]
Once or twice, indeed, I had imagined I was in love with the sisters of Boston classmates whose dances I attended; to these parties Tom, not having overcome his diffidence in respect to what he called "social life," never could be induced to go. [9]
It looked as if it would be impossible for the rear boat to overcome the odds against it. [6]
It is here, however, partially overcome by the fact that the inmates are kept so busy in the variety of discipline applied to them that they have little or no time for anything else. [4]
Whether he suspected his project or not Dick did not feel sure; but it was something to have got a foothold in the house, and to have overcome any prepossession against him which his uncle might have entertained. [6]
This had been his mood, but he was still irresolute, and it needed some outside suggestion to push him forward to overcome his lingering reluctance to go home. [4]
Often she saw him standing on such high scaffolding that he seemed to be perched between heaven and earth, and she would be overcome by giddiness, though he seemed proof against it. [10]
William's affliction grieved him as sorely as if it had fallen upon himself, and the blow that had struck the cause of freedom was a heavy one, perhaps never to be overcome. [10]
Carnac, overcome by her sadness, put his arms round her and kissed her mouth, her eyes, her neck ravenously. [11]
This difficulty overcome, he took his seat at the desk. [12]
He perceived that he must overcome his objection to giving his daughter to the man whose birth he scorned, much as he liked and esteemed his character. [10]
His Lordship--if Lordship he is --is stranded in an inn, overcome with ennui, and must be amused. [9]
The apparent pleasure he had taken in the present situation, once his amazement had been overcome, profoundly puzzled her. [9]
You would not have been condemned, and then--" She paused overcome, and his self-control almost deserted him. [11]
I caught myself harboring a feeling of hatred toward him which I vainly tried to overcome. [2]
Within the past half-hour she had overcome herself; she had fought down the blind, wild rebellion that, for one moment as it were, had surged up in her heart. [11]
The little one had defended himself bravely, but was at last overcome by numbers. [10]
He stood there greatly overcome, his hands clasped together, holding his breath till his mouth was dry, and swallowing his tears to keep them from falling. [10]
But though he gave the trio an awkward five minutes he was at last entirely overcome, and was carried away in triumph through the woods. [11]

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