overmasters

So when he is brought suddenly to the strong light of the sun the effulgence overmasters him, and he is blind as a bat.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

So when he is brought suddenly to the strong light of the sun the effulgence overmasters him, and he is blind as a bat.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

So when he is brought suddenly to the strong light of the sun the effulgence overmasters him, and he is blind as a bat.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

So when he is brought suddenly to the strong light of the sun the effulgence overmasters him, and he is blind as a bat.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

So when he is brought suddenly to the strong light of the sun the effulgence overmasters him, and he is blind as a bat.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

Love overmasters the thoughts of his youth, and he becomes in sober reality the monster that he was sometimes in sleep.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

The ruin of oligarchy is the ruin of democracy; the same disease magnified and intensified by liberty overmasters democracy — the truth being that the excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction; and this is the case not only in the seasons and in vegetable and animal life, but above all in forms of government.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

I am obeying a passion, an impulse perhaps, because I have but one aim, one that overmasters all else.

The Idiot 2002

When, on the other hand, the tempest in his mind overmasters his sanity, a remarkable tiling begins to happen.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002