When some of her ships take to flight, he immediately believes in an alliance between her and the enemy, and heaps the coarsest invectives upon her, almost worse than those with which Othello overwhelms Desdemona.
It is in the third book of the Metamorphoses that Ulysses, fighting with Ajax for Achilles' weapon, overwhelms his opponent with biting sarcasms.
Nay, it is gone, And I am left as far without a bound As the wide ocean that obeys the winds; Each sudden passion throws me where it lists, And overwhelms all that oppose my will.
Thou art guarded by thy foes: in a few hours The tempest may break out which overwhelms thee, And thine and mine; and in another day What is shall be the past of Belus' race.
I will read it over when the sense of my deficiencies overwhelms me, while I ask God why He has given me such a patient, forbearing husband.
I wonder at myself that I do not enter more into her sorrows, but though at times the remembrance of our loss overwhelms me, my natural elasticity soon makes me rise above and forget it.
This future universal inundation of books, this superfluity of knowledge, in billions and trillions, overwhelms the imaginnation!
If this has come to pass she overwhelms him with caresses at the first meeting.
And, with all this, may we not expect that fierce instinct of selfishness which overwhelms every other impulse, and breaks out in crime?
As for Monsieur d'Alencon I will not answer; but the queen mother overwhelms you with attentions.
The case of Michael Angelo seems to me decisive, for he is the superhuman master, the monster who overwhelms all others, precisely because he brought forth that magnificent living flesh which offends your sense of delicacy.
There is nothing, I tried to learn all, and only found the atrocious grief born of the nothingness that overwhelms me.
Whereupon they drove at the unbelievers and overwhelmed them, as the torrent overwhelms the plains, shouting out their war-cries, till the stoutest champions were affrighted and the mountains were cloven by the noise.
By Allah," replied the stoker, "the master overwhelms us with his favours!
Your majesty overwhelms me with honor and delight!
Sire," objected Fouquet, with a grace of manner peculiarly his own, "your majesty overwhelms M.
How does it happen that the presence of a woman overwhelms us so?
The tragedy of their certain extinction overwhelmsme at times.
In return Satan terms Abdiel a common deserter, and overwhelms him with scorn, to which this angel pays little heed, realizing that by serving a divine master he is freer than independent Satan.
When Telemachus admits his identity, Menelaus and Helen mingle their tears with his, for the memory of the past overwhelms them with sorrow.
For my part, I say, with all truth, that his loss overwhelms me, and it also overwhelms this Parliament, as if indeed one of the institutions of the land had given way.
That sinoverwhelms the perpetrator after consuming his roots and branches.
The Rajas (productive of only sorrow and evil of every kind) that is in the understanding then overwhelms the Soul itself that lies over the Rajas-stained understanding like an image upon a mirror.
MEAD It is a great mistake to think, as many are apt to do when some terrible waroverwhelms some part of the world, that war is on the increase among men and that we are probably on the eve of a portentous new era of it.
I will obey your sainted daughter's injunctions; I will struggle against the grief that overwhelms me, and will try to hope that her words may be fulfilled.
The baleful forces that lurk in the depths of the Kurt temperament rise to the surface; the whole terrible heritage of savagery overwhelms the feeble civilization which the last scion has acquired.
How stupendous is this sacrifice, which baffles the mind and overwhelms the heart!
Heirs of God, joint-heirs with Christ"--a destiny like this overwhelms thought and makes hope a rapture.
Such a decree overwhelms us with joy; how different to the edict, which bade us muster with provisions for three days.
For a moment a wave of thankfulness overwhelms me: I long to embrace him.
For a moment I hold it indifferently; then a great joy overwhelms me.
II Humiliation overwhelmsme as I don the loathed suit of striped black and gray.
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