Appearances were, and always must be,
overwhelmingly against him.
The loud gallery was
overwhelmingly with the unfortunate and the oppressed.
I am ever willing to stand and fight when the odds are not too
overwhelmingly against me, but in this instance I perceived neither glory nor profit in pitting my relatively puny strength against the iron muscles and brutal ferocity of this enraged denizen of an unknown world; in fact, the only outcome of such an encounter, so far as I might be concerned, seemed sudden death.
And Michael, by the dim glows of the pipe surveying the scene of the two old men, one squatted in the dark, the other standing, knew naught of the tragedy of age, and was only aware, and
overwhelmingly aware, of the immense likableness of this two- legged white god, who, with fingers of magic, through ear-roots and tail-roots and spinal column, had won to the heart of him.
It had come upon him
overwhelmingly that he needed tobacco.
What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and
overwhelmingly powerful?
"Sold that watercolour of the obelisk to a man from Peoria," he announced
overwhelmingly.
"That's a `label' on my `sect'," answered Laurie, quoting Amy, as he went to partake of humble pie dutifully with his grandfather, who was quite saintly in temper and
overwhelmingly respectful in manner all the rest of the day.
"A what?" Wolf Larsen asked, a peculiar softness in his voice, as though he were
overwhelmingly curious to hear the unspoken word.
She desired
overwhelmingly that he should win, that he should not be hurt, that he should sweep triumphantly over Albert Parsons as he had swept over Ted Pringle.
This argument which was not only sagacious but true,
overwhelmingly true, unanswerably true, seemed to surprise her.
"Who showed it to you?" The blood rushed back into her face--rushed
overwhelmingly, as the sense rushed upon her mind that her own words had betrayed her.