The prisoner sat with half-open mouth, overwhelmed by this flood of eloquence.
The Brenn, overwhelmed with grief at his misfortune, no sooner saw his army free from immediate danger than he put himself to death.
We very soon found ourselves quite overwhelmed by the many openings and opportunities which presented themselves on all sides.
His heart was overwhelmed by the love of God; and the beauty of Christ, after which he for so many years had blindly felt, lest haply he might find, was now revealed to him.
When his uncle died he found himself responsible for business and home, and overwhelmedby debts.
Left alone, Ragna felt overwhelmed by the unexpectedness of the turn her affairs had taken and torn with doubt as to the course to pursue.
She felt dominant within her the powerful impulse of renunciation, it overwhelmed all else.
Suddenly a gulf of realization and shame overwhelmed her.
They defeated and overwhelmed an army which was sent out against them, and put the whole country in fear.
But during the night the Indian benefactor ascended the height and overwhelmed the slumberers below with a vast mass of rocks.
Poor William Wetherell, who was quite overwhelmed by the fact that the great Mr. Duncan had actually read his letters and liked them, could scarcely utter a sensible word.
Sorrow and anger and fierce shame overwhelmed her, and she turned from him in silence and went to the door.
But Mr. Worthington had come with such praiseworthy intentions that he was disposed to believe that the girl was overwhelmedby the good fortune which had suddenly overtaken her.
The gloomy splendor of the venerable cathedraloverwhelmed me; the happy faces that met me on every side, the spontaneous rejoicing of the whole population, touched me deeply.
He is overwhelmed by the most conflicting emotions.
The horror which almost overwhelmed Nigel did not prevent him bounding forward to the rescue.
All sense of danger was now overwhelmed in Nigel's mind by that feeling of excitement and wild delight which accompanies some kinds of rapid motion.
Now, would you clearly see how the souls can at the same instant swim in a paradise of delights and yet be overwhelmed with the hellish torments of Purgatory?
Overwhelmed with the happiness of seeing herself chosen for the spouse of the God of Virgins, Catherine consecrates herself entirely to Him, and promises inviolable fidelity to Him.
Ethan, awkward and unaccustomed to good society, was overwhelmed by the kindness of what he called the "grand people.
Fanny, who felt that she must do something, or she would soon be overwhelmed by the emotions which agitated her soul.
State which was their place of refuge when German "liberty" overwhelmed them with its kindly attentions.
What brought on the horrid civil war in Spain, which for five years overwhelmed the Peninsula with horrors and cold-blooded atrocities, which throw even those consequent on the invasion of Napoleon into the shade?
She did inevitably recall the last time she had seen him, in the little Western city, and how he had overwhelmed her, invaded her with doubts and aroused the spirit which had possessed her to fight fiercely for its foothold.
Gradually she began to realize, however, that her resentment of the lack of confidence of her husband was by no means the only cause of the feeling that took possession of and overwhelmed her.
In 1371 theyoverwhelmed the Servian tsar Vukashin at the battle of Taenarus and penetrated to the heart of old Servia.
Magyar chivalry were overwhelmed by fourfold odds on Turkish soil.
Espard, in whose honor the dinner was given; both ladies overwhelmed him with flatteries.
Arrived at Stockholm, he installed his secretary and overwhelmed him with work.
David sedulously hid his embarrassment to spare Lucien; he was afraid that Lucien might be overwhelmed by the sacrifices made for his sake.
Overwhelmed with uncomprehending misery and acute shame, she heard two or three of the mistresses add each her quota, for the most part regretfully and with an evident sense of duty overcoming reluctance, to the evidence against her.
That night, however, when Alex knelt down to say her prayers, she was suddenly overwhelmed by remorse and terror.
The sense of being despised overwhelmed her, and she fretted secretly and lost some of her colour, and held herself worse than ever from the lassitude that overwhelmed her physically whenever she was bored or unhappy.
Your mother tells me that you appear to have been--er--rather suddenly overwhelmed by a fear of marrying without love.
The misery of parting for eight weeks from Queenie Torrance overwhelmed her.
When she had put on the serge skirt and white muslin shirt, the sensation had overwhelmed her, accustomed to the heavy religious habit, of being lightly, almost indecently clad.
So overwhelmed was he with horror that for a moment Browne found himself quite unable to say or do anything.
The royal party, which was at this time in a state of great destitution, was quite overwhelmed by the disaster.
Overwhelmed by regret and misery, he almost immediately sank into the grave.
Louise staggered back to her room overwhelmedwith despair.
Down in the valley were the British outpost positions which were overwhelmed and driven in.
The young messenger was overwhelmedwith regret as vain as it was agonizing.
She tried to be grateful for all these things; and when moods of lonely despair and melancholy overwhelmed her, she upbraided her own weakness, and resolved to be more thankful in the future.
As for him, he was overwhelmedwith shame, and pity, and despair.
De Witt," she said to me one day, "twice in my life I have been so overwhelmed with the love of God that I fainted away and could hardly be resuscitated.
Overwhelmed in the Red Sea of Death while they passed through dry shod.
But he is too much overwhelmed with his own sorrow to have any compassion to spare for others; besides his outward indifference gives us by no means the measure of his internal perturbation.
