Sale, a big man with a loud voice, impressive tones, and masterful ways, overpowered me.
He made a desperate resistance, but was soon overpowered and left handcuffed, hobbled, and strapped down, more helpless than a swaddled infant.
They were at once overpowered with curiosity and sympathy, and had to shake a hundred hands.
With a countenance alternately pallid with surprise and burning with affection, Jabaster embraced his brother, and, overpowered with emotion, hid his face on his shoulder.
For a moment she leant against the wall, overpowered by her emotions.
A portion of Landrum's force, posted north of the town, wasoverpowered and forced to surrender.
In a few moments all Memphis was in an uproar; and the raiders, moving in five isolated bodies, were overpowered in detail and compelled to unite before they could cut their way out.
Foster's men fought gallantly for four hours, and were not overpowered until they had lost 160 men, the loss of the guerillas being about equal.
The one hundred overpowered the pickets, sent them to the rear, rushed through the gap made by the axemen up the slope of Fort Steadman, and it was ours without the firing of a single gun, and with the loss of but one man.
Gradually the regular forces overpowered the National Guards of Paris, drove them from the southern forts, and finally (May 21) gained a lodgment within the walls of Paris at the Auteuil gate.
Already they had overpowered and slaughtered two Egyptian forces; and on February 22 news reached Cairo of the fall of Tokar before the valiant swordsmen of Osman Digna.
The little kingdom was speedily overpowered by Turks and Albanians; and despite the recall of their troops from Crete, the Hellenes were unable to hold Phersala and other positions in the middle of Thessaly.
The Mahdists were pressing on the siege of Khartum, and had overpowered and slaughtered faithful tribes farther down the river.
At this my bile overpowered me, and I was going to seize him anti throw him out of the window, when Don Antonio Grimaldi came in.
Lancelot Vane's unexpected appearance and the story of his persecution strove for mastery with the recollection of her triumph at the concert and hadoverpowered it.
The other excitement to which I referred was the coming of two new guests from New York, elegant ladies, whose appearance and manners quite overpowered me in the few minutes of conversation I held with them when they first entered my house.
Then an opened door, and Widow Thrale herself, not too much overpowered by her obligations to leave the dog's explanations and apologies unacknowledged.
My role was a domestic one, and I had a high moral standpoint; which I would gladly have dispensed with, but the force of family tradition overpowered me.
For, you see, he was all on end to know how this prisoner, who had been put in irons for violence, and somehow got free and overpowered a gaoler who came alone into his cell, had contrived his final escape from the prison.
The night before the battle Gustavus had dreamt that he was wrestling with Tilly, and that Tilly bit him in the left arm, but that he overpowered Tilly with his right arm.
Ultimately, however, Black Hawk was overpowered and most of his men met their doom in attempting to retreat across the Mississippi.
My mother is perfectly convinced now that she shall not be overpowered by her cleft-wood, and I believe would rather have more than less.
Does she feel you to be a comfort to her, or is she too much overpowered for anything but solitude?
Now I hope you are not overpowered with letter-writing, as Henry[180] and John can ease you of many of your correspondents.
Either of these two could have overpowered him singly.
The least rustle near at hand overpowered it, and yet it was always there--an unceasing throb to be felt as much as heard.
Furnished with slippers and dry garments, and overpowered by the warmth and comfort of the room and the fatigue they had undergone, Nelly and the old man had not long taken seats in the warm chimney-corner when they fell asleep.
But the longing so overpowered her that she consulted Miss Nipper as to the possibility of gratifying it, and that young woman, eager herself for an expedition, urged Polly to visit her home.
They were doubtless overpowered and killed, with twenty-nine others, who lost their lives on this occasion.
The krisses were given up, and the bargain was complete, when the four executioners threw themselves on the unarmed men, and, assisted by others, overpowered and secured them.
Both dogs instantly flew at the animal, and though she fought desperately, quickly overpowered and throttled her.
The mask of her brazen audacity remained, but some feeling had overpowered her, and she began to weep like any woman in silent humiliation.
The instinct of the wild beast, to worry the living game, overpowered her.
My rage then grew so dreadful, that it overpowered hers.
But now her nearness overpowered him entirely, and he had no longer the strength to struggle against anything.
The joy she felt almost overpowered her; her cheeks were wet with the tears of sweet exhaustion that comes when every nerve has been strained.
A deadly fear overpowered her; she would not stand that, she had better run downstairs.
A feeling of bitterness overpowered the lonely woman; without knowing it hot tears ran down her cold face, that was already wet with dew.
But here the feelings of the old manoverpowered him.
At night, when we retired to rest, and, untiloverpowered by fatigue and sleep, we talked of nothing but plans of escape.
Had I known what bliss was awaiting me, I should have perhaps run away overpowered by its greatness.
She could not answer him; this unlooked for aid in her direst distress overpowered her.
This recollection so overpowered him that the tears streamed from his eyes, and he let his grief take its course without trying to check it.
I clearly felt that my fate was sealed, and for the first time in my life I surrendered myself to the sensations which overpowered and ensnared me.
At last he stood still, and began in his deep and mellow voice: "I never told you this because the remembrance of it has always overpowered me, and the mere recalling of these events caused me a fever which laid me prostrate for a week.
It was one of the hottest days in midsummer, and though I am generally little affected by any temperature, yet the suffocating air on that occasion completely overpowered and exhausted me.
Yesterday I wrote that life was hard to bear; but hardest of all for a poor weak heart to bear, is great happiness when it has never before tasted it from youth upwards, and is then suddenly crushed and overpowered by its weight.
It seemed to me that a constant twilight surrounded me, a sweet lethargyoverpowered me, and a celestial harmony filled my soul.
The brute was then, after a short struggle, overpowered and captured.
Defeated commanders have not, however, always seen this, or, seeing it, they have allowed prudence to be overpowered by other considerations.
Her solicitude overpowered her discretion, and her manner proclaimed to every one within hearing that the nestlings were out.
It was too good a situation to leave and he seemed to have settled for life; but his wings overpowered his inertia or greed, about four o'clock in the afternoon.
Her terrible fire speedily overpowered the languid answer of the Ville de Paris, whose crew, diminished by a half, were fighting hopelessly in the dark of the smoke with guns which they could only slowly feed with powder.
The course he took can only be made intelligible by supposing that his hatred of the rebels, combined with the prospect of escaping for ever from poverty, overpowered his common sense.
