Baber, the Great Mogul, was, for example, overrunning India at the very moment when Hernando Cortez was overrunning Mexico, and yet the two could never have heard of each other.
But this deformity, bad as it is, is not so obtrusive as the small patches and large tracts of larch-plantations that areoverrunning the hill sides.
The Turkish overrunning of Asia Minor took place after the destruction of the Byzantine army in the great battle of Manzikert, A.
When this Philip, father of Perseus, was thus overrunning Asia, being unable to get provisions for his army, he accepted a present of figs from the Magnesians, as they had no corn.
There the two consular armies, overrunning every part of the country during the space of five months, laid it entirely waste.
Instead of overrunning a territory in one vast irruption, each section seized a small district, built a city, and formed an independent people.
Soon afterward Cyrus swept onwards in the prosecution of his vast designs, overrunning Assyria, and rushing through the channels of Euphrates into the palaces of Babylon, and the halls of the scriptural Belshazzar.
Sidenote: The English settlement] Under such conditions the overrunning of Britain could not fail to be a very different matter from the rapid and easy overrunning of such countries as Gaul.
First, we learn from Babylonian annals that Kyaxares, besides overrunning all Assyria and the northern part of Babylonia after the fall of Nineveh, took and pillaged Harran and its temple in north-west Mesopotamia.
Lucius Camillus was named dictator, as the Gauls were overrunning the environs of Rome.
But when the Romans made no reply about peace, but as before bade him depart from Italy and only in that event make propositions to them, and since they kept overrunning and capturing the cities in alliance with him, [Sidenote: FRAG.
Under Mr. Hosmer's direction we boys trapped rabbits industriously, not for sport but to prevent them overrunning the place.
He was determined to retain Silesia, but he saw with apprehension great French armies overrunning the German Empire.
The French had won Fontenoy and were overrunning the Austrian Netherlands, without difficulty and almost without resistance.
On this Valentinian promoted Equitius to the command of a division, and resolved on retiring to Illyricum to prevent a rebel who was already formidable from overrunning Thrace and then carrying an hostile invasion into Pannonia.
The river, with anoverrunning flood, swept away a large portion of the walls.
The doom of Nineveh, the great rival and predecessor of Babylon, was also predicted as the result of two apparently contradictory agencies--an overrunning flood and a consuming fire.
Valerius stopped, almost in his stride, all butoverrunning her, so close upon her had he been.
Those who could afford it left their ravished homes swiftly behind by air and to these fortunate ones the way north was not closed, as it was to the earthbound, by the weed's overrunning of the highways.
The overrunningof the United States wiped out the gangs which operated so freely there, but remnants made their escape, taking with them to the older continents their philosophy of life and property.
Came home relieved of all my recent pessimism and brought my book down to theoverrunning of the United States.
All of which was a longwinded way of saying the Grass was overrunning Illinois.
The Dutch are overrunningthe fine island of Sumatra, too.
From this point it has made its way down the stream, overrunning its banks and invading meadows and cultivated fields, and proving a serious obstacle to the farmer.
The rolley horses have a peculiar kind of shafts, commonly made of iron, named limbers, the purpose of which is to prevent the carriage from overrunning them.
Want and wretchedness skulk in the shadows of our temples, ignorance and crime stalk abroad at high noon--the legions of Lucifer are overrunning the land, transforming God's beautiful world into a veritable Gehenna.
But with presence of mine enemies: thou an overrunning flood he will make anointest my head with oil; my cup.
