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• There is a gloomy and solemn might in his despair; though over [45] whelmed, he seems invincible: his enemies have blinded and imprisoned him in their deceptions; but only that, like Samson, he may overturn his prison-house, and bury himself, and all that have wronged him, in its ruins. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life of Friedrich Schiller, by Thomas Carlyle
• Even I was almost carried away by the enthusiasm with which the town was over-whelmed, into forgetting the boyish impressions which Signor Sassaroli had stamped upon my mind, when another miracle—which also came to us from Dresden—suddenly gave a new direction to my artistic feelings and exercised a decisive influence over my whole life. —  My Life, Volume I
• The vagueness which hangs over the places in which Tom Jones was written, the certainty that in all of them poverty was constantly present, is in perfect accord with the power of detachment manifested in this book from circumstances that would surely have tinged, if not over-whelmed, a weaker genius. —  Henry Fielding: A Memoir
• After seeing Wanted and being … not disappointed, but under-whelmed, I suppose … I went back and re-read the comic book. —  The Documentary Blog
• Morganne seemed a bit under whelmed - I on the other hand loved them. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates

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