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Wee are in the wrong, to thinke her incommodities serve her as a provocation and seasoning to her sweetness, as in nature one contrarie is vivified by another contrarie: and to say, when we come to vertue, that like successes and difficulties overwhelme it, and yeeld it austere and inaccessible.

That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die. 1909

She's gonna be overwhelme ­d with the debt that she can't pay and the "united" states would fizzle as a result.

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These kind of pictures and stories put extra pressure on a new mom already overwhelme ­d with the big change in life and body!

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The Israelis regularly claim that they would be overwhelme

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ben S. Cohen 2010

Wee are in the wrong, to thinke her incommodities serve her as a provocation and seasoning to her sweetnes, as in nature one contrarie is vivified by another contrarie: and to say, when we come to vertue, that like successes and difficulties overwhelme it, and yeeld it austere and inaccessible.

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

In the Moneth of March take Toades, as many as you will, alive; putt them into an Earthen pott, so yt it be halfe full; Cover it with a broad tyle or Iron plate, then overwhelme the pott, so yt ye bottome may be uppermost; putt charcoals round about it and over it and in the open ayre not in an house; sett it on fire and lett it burne out and extinguish of itself; when it is cold take out the toades; and in an Iron morter pound them very well; and searce them; then in a Crucible calcine them; So againe; pound them & searce them again.

Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881