| 1. | As he said this, Ahab advanced upon him with such overbearing terrors in his aspect, that Stubb involuntarily retreated. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 2. | His bullying, overbearing manner was all gone too, and he cringed along at my companion's side like a dog with its master. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 3. | And not only that, but moody stricken Ahab stood before them with a crucifixion in his face in all the nameless regal overbearing dignity of some mighty woe. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | Maria did not understand why Joe laughed so much over the answer he had made but she said that the manager must have been a very overbearing person to deal with. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 5. | He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic but had more mischief than ill-will in his composition and with all his overbearing roughness, there was a strong dash of waggish good humor at bottom. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |