o'erwhelm

• “Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes”

  Time for the House of Lords to Rescue FOI

• “Is thy hand set against us, O Ares, in ruin and wrath to o'erwhelm”

  The Seven against Thebes

• “And the shadows of darkness her lover o'erwhelm --”

  The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century

• “_ Dear _Charles, _ don't o'erwhelm a Man -- already under insupportable Affliction.”

  The Busie Body

• “No tempest could shake us, no wave could o'erwhelm.”

  Our Profession and Other Poems

• “Let nations grapple, let Mammon triumph, let pestilence o'erwhelm; what matter, we love, we love.”

  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance

• “Paraphrasing the copy-book, suppressed desires will arise, though all the world o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.”

  All About Coffee

• “Though all the earth o'erwhelm them to men's eyes.”

  Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

• “Queen, may it be done for all thy magic, and if perchance she answereth thee, it may well be that the terror of her words shall utterly o'erwhelm us. ”

  The World's Desire

• “The flower of thy might lasts now a while: but erelong it shall be that sickness or sword thy strength shall minish, or fang of fire, or flooding billow, or bite of blade, or brandished spear, or odious age; or the eyes 'clear beam wax dull and darken: Death even thee in haste shall o'erwhelm, thou hero of war!”

  Beowulf

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