But the wretched chaplain was impervious even to this humiliation, so abject, so overmastering was his terror.
His appearance was generally that of a person struggling with pain and overmastering illness.
Desnoyers instantly felt the most overmastering desire to see his boy, since, for so many months, he had had to content himself with reading his letters and studying the snap shot which one of his comrades had made of his soldier son.
And all those who felt the overmastering ambition for absolute command knew the same thing .
Then she yielded it to him, and the sense of her touch stole through his veins with a sort of dreamy fascination, to give place in a moment to the overmastering fire of his great passion.
For with something of the overmastering suddenness with which his passion had found expression, there swept back into his heart all the still cold flow of icy reminiscence.
Had he been right to yield to his overmastering hunger of the night before, and break down the resistance which he had suffered now too long from this woman who was his lawful and solemnly constituted helpmate?
A little later the young poet had recovered sufficiently from hisovermastering attachment to Mary Evans to become engaged to Sarah Fricker, Southey's sister-in-law.
And there came to her suddenly the true, the overmastering longing of mountain tops.
His face, though unweathered and unseamed, and much too fine and thin in texture, had a curious affinity to the faces of old sailors or fishermen who have lived a simple, practical life in the light of an overmastering tradition.
Arden noted the look, that there was in it fear, overmastering ancient kindness, and withal a curiosity as ignoble as it was keen.
A sudden gust stirred the pine tops, and a sudden, overmasteringpanic filled her soul.
Of course you will consent," West said, sweeping down her half-offered resistance with sheer, overmastering strength.
That some of the noblest and best of men and women are giving their lives in wise and loving ministration to these least among the children of men is proof of the overmastering power of human sympathy.
It only needs that the great consuming public, the final and the worst sufferer when labor wars are waged, shall understand and use its overmastering social power to bring order out of the chaos of opposing interests.
The very notion of it was, in his time, a convention; a series of sonnets bound together by an argument; a Vita nova without its overmastering occasion.
Ulphilas immediately retired to his cell, and from that hour the castellan discharged his official duties evidently under the control of some overmastering influence or apprehension.
Lord William was silent; but the beautiful form of the maiden seemed to pass before him, and he loved her with such overmastering vehemence that if Satan himself had stood in the gap he would not have shrunk from his purpose.
To concentrate attention on any overmastering thought or purpose, even if our object is to destroy it, is but too apt to strengthen it.
Love in Lucretius is something deeper, larger, and more elemental than the Greeks conceived; a fierce and overmastering force, a natural impulse which men share in common with the world of things.
But no country is more liable than our own to great overmastering calamities, various, widespread and terrible.
This overmastering sense of the cause breathes through all his numerous references to himself.
There was something so ominous and threatening in all the unexpectedness of these things that Griscombe felt his spirits becoming overshadowed by an overmasteringsense of impending evil.
It all means work, overmastering habits of thought and action, lifting the soul from the grooves of heredity, and in all ways making aspiration attract the inspiration that sustains the soul.
She inspires the minds of men with an overmastering desire for possessions.
She was a woman too, and delighted to serve an overmastering will.
There was anovermastering enchantment in these tones,--in these looks of love, because Liana fancied she was mourning over some eclipsed star or other of her life.
Then the child, with overmastering bliss and love, sank on his father's heart, and wept, and was silent.
But there grew up in Owen's silent, lonely breast a great and overmastering desire to make this grey-eyed girl his wife.
But the maritime severance, sufficient to prevent accurate and familiar knowledge, was not enough to bar the effective exercise of overmastering power.
Writing, as usual to this correspondent, with absolute openness, Keats shows that he is suffering from one of his moods of overmastering depression.
The age inclined with overmastering bias toward a practical materialism.
That without the excuse of passion, without satirical motive or overmastering personal proclivity, he should have penned the Capitolo a M.
Yet he can produce passages of almost equal poignancy, prolonged situations of overmastering emotion, worthy to be set side by side with the Euripidean pictures of Polyxena, Alcestis, or Iphigenia.
