| 1. | And overwhelm thir Warr the Race elec. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | And here the whole thing seemed to overwhelm me in a rush. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 3. | "Oh, count, you overwhelm me with that coolness. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 4. | Thou seek'st the greatness that will overwhelm thee. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | "Oh, then I'll keep him here all the summer, and will overwhelm him with civility," said Levin, kissing her hands. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 6. | Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. - from The King James Bible |
| 7. | Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 8. | Do you play whist you will overwhelm my grandfather with delight if you play whist. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 9. | But I scarcely observed this rage and hatred had at first deprived me of utterance, and I recovered only to overwhelm him with words expressive of furious detestation and contempt. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 10. | Its effusion of strength and will overwhelms law and mocks al. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | Higelac overwhelms the conqueror with gifts. - from Beowulf by |
| 12. | The wind blows in gusts all the foam overwhelms him. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 13. | "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the very earth. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 14. | With George Eliot law is like fate it overwhelms personal freedom and inclination. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 15. | The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms as with lightning. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 16. | The evening had that serenity which overwhelms the troubles of man beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 17. | And who knows Did he steal Has it been proved The name of Jean Valjean overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 18. | Against any case of hypocrisy or injustice he sets up a remedy of precisely the same kind, only more atrocious, and defends his plan with such seriousness that the satire overwhelms the reader with a sense of monstrous falsity. - from English Literature by William J. Long |