overcome

• The accompanying sketch shows how this difficulty may be overcome, and at the same time make the screw hold firmly. —  Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2
• This King Marsile in war Is overcome, his strongholds all pulled down By warlike engines are his walls destroyed His cities burned, his men subdued;--when now He for your mercy prays, foul sin it were To press him harder. —  La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier
• By this diet bilious and inflammatory conditions are overcome, the development of bone in the foetus lessened, and muscles necessary in labor nourished and strengthened 23. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
• Each time the temptation is overcome, the power to resist becomes stronger, and the fierce fire declines. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
• If we entertain and live in the belief that they cannot be overcome, then the chances are that they will always remain. —  In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty

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