Example Sentences

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"What can it be?" she cried, filial love returning overmasteringly.

From Old Man Savarin and Other Stories by Thomson, Edward William

He had come to talk of Ernestine and the future; the things about him drew him overmasteringly to Karl and the past.

From The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love by Glaspell, Susan

He himself felt a certain kittenishness sporting within him; but it was, like all his emotions, rather a theoretical feeling; it did not overmasteringly seek to express itself in a practical demonstration of kittenishness.

From Crome Yellow by Huxley, Aldous

But this that had come so suddenly and overmasteringly over John Willie was a different thing altogether.

From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver