He listened to them all for another 15 minutes, mute as he tested the Hoover's suction against pieces of newspaper, until he was overcome by the sensation that Life was an enormous rucksack so impossibly heavy that, even though it meant losing everything, it was infinitely easier to leave all baggage here on the roadside and walk on into the blackness.
When the daughter of the high priest, Judith, went to the home of the governor, she shrewdly fed him cheese until he was overcome with thirst; then she gave him wine until he fell asleep.
He would see what worked and what did not, abandoning the latter and persisting with the former until the crisis was overcome.
Backward over the years I rolled, remembering, longing... until suddenly, I was overcome by a memory of being in a pram myself — is that possible, my critical grown-up self chided?
Until suddenly I was overcome by a wave of pure grief for all the time that had passed, for my childhood and my parents, for the rest of the house that I had lost and been unable to see.
The Astros owner Drayton McLane was overcome with disappointment until Manager Phil Garner sidled up to him in the clubhouse.
As Roquentin sits in a park, the root of a tree loses its character of familiarity until he is overcome by nausea at its utterly alien character, its being en soi.
But who could have guessed that Pat Day would let Secret Status dawdle until it was too late to overcome the slow pace of Mike Smith aboard Jostle?
It is a very neat, calm place, reflecting what the collector, plagued with dyslexia until it was properly diagnosed and overcome when she was in her 50's, said was the serenity she needed.
When they have to go he has no power to stop them; and he is compelled to continue his long march until he is overcome by tiredness and lays himself down to sleep.
