They tried to repeat their maneuver of August, endeavoring to overwhelm the French left; while the French, on their side, tried to overwhelm the German right.
Strassburg had hoisted the white flag a month earlier; and the besiegers of these fortresses were free to march westwards and overwhelm the new levies.
Masses of men led by the Khalifa's son, the Sheikh ed Din, rushed down the Kerreri slopes and threatened to overwhelm the brigade.
Everywhere on his route he was welcomed with fetes and congratulations, with which all were eager to overwhelmhim on account of the miraculous manner in which he had escaped the plots of his enemies.
A truth, which was well proved by succeeding events, is that the Emperor became more popular among that part of the inhabitants called the people when misfortunes began to overwhelm him.
If he cannot destroy her by fire, he aims to overwhelm her with water.
His countenance as the sun shining in his strength," disclosed to the beloved disciple such splendor as to overwhelm him.
The Serb peoples, divided into many small rival principalities, fought each other continuously, though the enemy which was to overwhelm them all was already advancing upon them.
If another war took place now the Slavs wouldoverwhelm us.
AKMOS If he but eat of our offering he cannot overwhelm us.
In the intensity of her father's pietistic views the very shadow of shame would overwhelm his household, overthrow his sect, and uproot his religious pretensions.
The prospect did not appal her; it did not overwhelm her with confusion or oppress her with shame; it did not threaten to fall like a thunderbolt; the thought of it came down like an angel's whisper.
Each mighty sea, all phosphorescent and glowing with the tiny lights of myriads of animalculae, threatened to overwhelm us with a deluge of fire.
Effort toOverwhelm the Church By Falsehood--Sundry Revelations Leading to Doctrinal Development.
Effort toOverwhelm the Church by Falsehood--Sundry Revelations Leading to Doctrinal Development.
O thou of eyes like lotus-petals, without thee, from this day, mental agonies will overwhelm me and eat into my heart.
If I break my vow, sin will overwhelm and kill me.
And those above us stand up high, as though they would overwhelm us; these are the horrors and apparitions of the other world, which at the hour of death terrify us.
To prove this point we must have a clear, strong text, and although there are many such in the Bible I will not overwhelm you with them, but ask you to note just this one, "We are all the children of wrath.
A desperate contest ensued, in which every Christian exerted his remaining strength, and their present position was so far favorable, that the Moors were not able to overwhelmthem with numbers.
Spare my guessing," returned the valet, "and with respect to your confusion, I dare say it will not overwhelm you.
Thinking to overwhelm the Saxons by the impetuosity of their assault, they had rushed upon the Saxon war-hedges in wildest disorder; only to be caught by the crafty Wittikind as Herman, his great predecessor, had trapped the Roman Varus.
They 'll board on either quarter, andoverwhelm us.
If, on the other hand, they were to multiply in a progressively higher rate so as to overwhelm the white population, it would certainly be serious both for California and for the United States.
It is the fear based upon conjecture that the Japanese will soon control the entire agricultural industry of California and that they will ere long overwhelm the white population in that State.
I vow, sir, you overwhelm a simple country-bred woman with your flattery," said she.
If you cared ever so little for me you would not overwhelm me with terror.
Every time that you speak to me as you have just spoken, you overwhelm me with remorse.
Dear sir, I protest that you overwhelm me with your compliments," she cried.
The Villerbach flows at a much more elevated level than that of the market-place of Neumarkt and Vill, and threatens to overwhelm both of them with its waters.
Footnote: In parts of the Algerian desert, some efforts are made to retard the advance of sand dunes which threaten to overwhelm villages.
Loftus considers this sand-flood as the "vanguard of those vast drifts which advancing from the south-east, threaten eventually to overwhelm Babylon and Baghdad.
At the onslaught the primitive passions flared, and it was with the impulse of the homicide that he determined to seek and overwhelm this woman who accepted men and matters with such entire sans-gêne.
It was the crowning infamy of this marriage which, in renewing the primitive passions, aroused in Verplank a determination not merely to seek and overwhelm the woman, but to seek and destroy the man.
Had he not encouraged him to take this bold step, in the sure belief that it would overwhelm him, and bring him an ignominious death, embittered by total failure of all he had tried to do?
When he gives himself up to your mercy, offering you hostages, wholly to overwhelm him would be a sin.
Germany, in one way or another, strongly united in her armies, would have tried, as in 1813, to overwhelm the Empire.
She saw the storm approaching, and was sure it would overwhelm the one she loved.
In the last days he had often felt confused, beset, had often felt that he was struggling in a sea of complications which threatened to overwhelm him.
Might not his terrible sincerity perhaps overwhelm her doubts?
This scheme of hers is the original source of all the misfortunes which overwhelm the heroine.
He ought to be able to overwhelm his opponents, and bury them under mountains of the bones of intermediate species.
