over-mastering

There was one great, over-mastering feeling in her.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

There was one great, over-mastering feeling in her.

Sheldonism 2008

So far, on my rather different path, I find it doesn't stop, it just gets gentler and less over-mastering, & more intermittent. & doing it, accepting the limitations of now only the real ones, of course, *does seem to have its reward in peace, even joy.

a short squirrel interlude: being home Elizabeth McClung 2009

Wherefore, although the over-mastering love of books has possessed our mind from boyhood, and to rejoice in their delights has been our only pleasure, yet the appetite for the books of the civil law took less hold of our affections, and we have spent but little labour and expense in acquiring volumes of this kind.

The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

Dixon's rebellion arises from two simple elements of the servile condition: "real, over-mastering, orgiastic boredom, and its companion, real hatred."

The Man of Feeling 2002

Stanley Hopkins had laid his hand upon her arm and claimed her as his prisoner, but she waved him aside gently, and yet with an over-mastering dignity which compelled obedience.

The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez. 2004

Her feet lost the ground; her head hung back; he showered kisses on her face with a silent and over-mastering ardour, as if in haste to get at her very soul.

To-morrow, by Joseph Conrad 2004

Dixon's rebellion arises from two simple elements of the servile condition: "real, over-mastering, orgiastic boredom, and its companion, real hatred."

The Man of Feeling 2002

These passionate words, wrung from him by over-mastering feeling, I note particularly, in view of what followed.

A Raw Youth 2003

The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.

Lord of the Flies Golding, William, 1911- 1954