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On the other hand, the affair may have been just one of general precaution." "The ghosts did it?" Ross wanted to know. "I asked that. No, it seems that strange tribesmen overran it at night." "At night?" McNeil whistled. "Just so." Ashe's tone was dry. "The tribes do not fight that way. Either someone slipped up in his briefing, or the Reds are overconfident and don't care about the rules.
"She expects," John answered, "the mediation of the Messiah. It is the talk among the slaves that He is in the city and she has heard it. She seems not to be overconfident, however." "It is her end," the woman remarked with meaning. "Perchance not. She is a good Jew, it seems, whatever else she may be, and every good Jew may have his wishes come to pass if the Messiah come.
"So I think," answered Colin eagerly; "but that is what the men say. "The French are always something overconfident and boastful, I think," said Corinne gravely. "They like to win their battles before they fight them, and beat back the foe before he appears. But we shall see we shall see." Colin and Corinne were both much interested in the General of the forces, Monsieur the Marquis of Montcalm.
The English, besides being so much inferior in numbers, were wasted by disease and famine, while their adversaries were fresh and vigorous, with a plentiful commissariat. But the latter were overconfident. They spent the evening in dice-playing and making wagers about the prisoners they should take; while the English, on the contrary, confessed themselves and received the sacrament.
Zealous for his adopted country and, possibly, overconfident in consequence of his easy success in Egypt, Peter Martyr did not wait for the credentials he had solicited but made the mistake of treating affairs for which he had received no mandate.
Here, as in higher instances, confident as we are that there is a final cause, we must not be overconfident that we can infer the particular or true one.
He might have gathered a much more numerous army than that of William; but his recent victory had made him overconfident, and he was irritated by the reports of the country being ravaged by the invaders.
Many boys who are hampered by unreasonable diffidence, a lack of normal self-confidence and self-assertion, find unexpected ability and positiveness through this avenue alone and, on the other hand, the physical test and encounter of the game serves to bring a proper self-rating to the overconfident. Dr.
All night long he sat unruffled in his office, while refugees from the stricken field especially those overconfident Senators and Representatives who had gone out to watch the overthrow of the Confederates poured into his ears their various and conflicting accounts of the catastrophe. During that long night Lincoln said almost nothing.
He reached up and took the shotgun which reposed on two pegs above the door. He slammed the heavy door and dropped the bar as they sprang inside. "I made that prediction about clipping Slade's claws too soon," Harris said. "What with Slade locked up and Morrow six feet underground, I was overconfident. I might have known it was planned ahead."
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