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He is something overmasterful, is Master Augustus, and a rub or two will do him good.

From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Trollope, Anthony

What he saw amiss in me I do not know, but to me there was about him something overmasterful which roused in me a keen desire to master it, or thwart it.

From Carette of Sark by Oxenham, John