It was-well, hard work; but my love overmastered her.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
His reason, his intellect, always overmastered him in the end; and what was there in this bewitching child to satisfy either?
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell
She had liked his company; she had accepted his attentions, not once had she repulsed him; and the consequence was his attachment had grown and increased in intensity day by day, until it had overmastered him.
"Lover or Friend"
Rosa Nouchette Carey