In fact, the duke of Burgundy at last overreached his brother-in-law king Edward, for he concluded a truce with France for nine years, whilst that of England with France was for seven years only.
You have thwarted them, and overreached me; but I am not one to be thwarted and overreached without retaliation.
Rouser, struck by Bartle's address, and indignant at the idea of having been overreached by him.
In the deceit of them that overreached him, she stood by him, and made him honourable.
We have injured no man: we have corrupted no man: we have overreached no man.
Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.
She was only a girl, not an angel, so she could not help being pleased with the thought of the discomfiture of her scheming cousins who had so cleverly overreached themselves.
But Mrs. Ellsworth has overreached herself in her eagerness to forward the interests of Miss Peyton and Miss Craye.
But as Lewis made interest the sole test of honor, he thought that all the advantages of the treaty were on his side, and that he had overreached Edward, by sending him out of France on such easy terms.
Edward, fallen into a like snare with that which he himself had spread for the Scots, was enraged; and the more so, as he was justly ashamed of his own conduct, in being so egregiously overreached by the court of France.
But I was not only too cunning for others--I sometimes overreached myself.
Paracelsus is exposed At last; a most egregious quack he proves: And those he overreached must spit their hate On one who, utterly beneath contempt, Could yet deceive their topping wits.
The Burman had overreached Leh Shin, and now Leh Shin had begun the cycle again, and had smitten at the curio dealer through the curio dealer's boy, for whom he appeared to have a fanatical affection.
The enemy's right overreached my left and gave serious trouble.
The consciousness that he--the man of all others who prided himself upon his sagacity--had been so easily overreached was quite as humiliating as the idea of ruin itself.
There he had overreached himself; it was his own stocks which he had thrown down to the "bears.
But the agents of the policy overreached themselves.
The Irish agents of the policy of Protestant Ascendancy overreachedthemselves too.
It passed into mere cleverness, and overreached itself.
In the meantime, England has clearly overreached herself.
Littlepage, who was here as a secret agent for the King of Poland, rather overreached himself.
He had greatly prided himself on his business ability, but had signalized his entrance on his new and responsible position by being overreached and swindled in a transaction that had impoverished himself and almost ruined his partners.
He fancied in his own secret heart that Retief had at lastoverreached himself, and in thus giving away his secret he was paving the way to his own capture.
However," turning to the others, "I should not be surprised if Mr. Retief has overreached himself this time.
Our enemies had overreached themselves, and been caught in their own toils.
He had overreached himself in his career of treachery, and was now to pay the penalty of detection.
On the other side, it does not appear that Pericles was ever so overreached as Fabius was by Hannibal with his flaming oxen.
Which point of honor had like to have cost him dear; for not long after he was overreached by a stratagem, which had almost amounted to the loss of Sparta.
But, as I said, she overreachedherself with von Hillern.
In the mean time, England has clearlyoverreached herself.
We have heard indignation expressed at the way in which the natives were, in the treaty, overreached by the Government, especially in the matter of securing to the Queen the right of pre-emption in the purchase of their lands.
They had heard that a Charter had been granted to a rich Company in England, while many of them who had worked long in the land were being, as they thought, overreached by the Government.
Braved on her throne, insulted in her court, overreached in her policy, she could only sustain herself by the hope of vengeance.
It would seem, however, that the provincial henchmen of the central Government hadoverreached themselves in their eagerness to carry out the behest of "curbing the Jews.
But the Commission had evidently overreached itself.
He saw that this servant had overreached himself, and knew that he must have some motive for joining him and addressing him in so familiar a manner.
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