If the federal government should
overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.
So that, O Sancho, in what we do we must not
overpass the bounds which the Christian religion we profess has assigned to us.
Fairfax made jellies in the storeroom, I climbed the three staircases, raised the trap-door of the attic, and having reached the leads, looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim sky-line--that then I longed for a power of vision which might
overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen--that then I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.
You'll not be surprised, Ellen, at my feeling particularly cheerless, seated in worse than solitude on that inhospitable hearth, and remembering that four miles distant lay my delightful home, containing the only people I loved on earth; and there might as well be the Atlantic to part us, instead of those four miles: I could not
overpass them!
Then take the road' (it was the Grand Trunk Road he meant) 'and test each stream that it overpasses; for, as I understand, the virtue of thy River lies neither in one pool nor place, but throughout its length.
'The long Road that overpasses all the rivers of Hind,' said the lama gaily.
They got their supper and a nap, and about midnight we sallied out through a solitude so wholly vacant and complete that it quite
overpassed the required condi- tions.
Remember that Pellean conqueror, A youth, how all the beauties of the East He slightly viewed, and slightly
overpassed; How he surnamed of Africa dismissed, In his prime youth, the fair Iberian maid.
It's a delicate job, raising the height of an existing freeway
overpass by a foot.
Heavy congestion is expected this weekend at Ruaraka area section of Thika Road which will be closed to facilitate installation of
overpass concrete beams.The beams are for a planned Outer Ring Road
overpass that is poised to ease movement of traffic between the two major arteries in the east parts of the city.