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My friend, Emilia, was "blue cloud;" my little Donald, "frozen face;" young C, "the red-headed woodpecker," from the colour of his hair; my brother, Chippewa, and "the bald-headed eagle." He was an especial favourite among them. The Indians are often made a prey of and cheated by the unprincipled settlers, who think it no crime to overreach a red skin. One anecdote will fully illustrate this fact.
He allowed matters to take their course, and me to work my own way in the world. Thus do the most cunning overreach themselves, and with their eyes open to any deceit on the part of others, prove quite blind when they deceive themselves. Timothy could not obtain any intelligence from the people of the inn at the last stage, except that the chariot had proceeded to London.
Balfour would in the end secure the oyster, while Mr. Coe was left with the shell. But Harry had darker forebodings still; she was instinctively confident that there was enmity at work in the new-comer, as well as the readiness common to all speculators to overreach a friend.
In Sir Giles Overreach, a character almost devoid of poetry, Kean's acting displayed with such powerful and relentless truth the depths of a cruel, avaricious man, baffled in all his vilest schemes, that the effect he produced was absolutely awful.
Thus it is that inordinate selfishness and cupidity overreach themselves; while the liberal man deviseth liberal things, and is sustained thereby. "HOW do you like our new preacher?" was asked by one member of another, as they walked home from church. "Only so so," was replied. "He cuts close," remarked the first speaker. "Yes, a little too close." "I don't know about that.
In return for his sacrifices he had no real legal protection; any creditor could, as a Jew named Abud actually did, threaten at any time to force bankruptcy unless he were paid at once and in full. One really sometimes feels inclined to regret that Abud or somebody else was not more relentless to pray for a Sir Giles Overreach or a Shylock among the creditors.
Whom did I overreach in business yesterday? Whose good name did I drag through the mire? What heart did I stab with my cruel words? "If thou rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift."
This was a question more difficult of solution; but as knaves generally overreach themselves by imputing their own designs to others, the idea immediately presented itself that some circumstances of irritation between Quilp and the old man, arising out of their secret transactions and not unconnected perhaps with his sudden disappearance, now rendered the former desirous of revenging himself upon him by seeking to entrap the sole object of his love and anxiety into a connexion of which he knew he had a dread and hatred.
"Another couple of hundred miles?" repeated Dave. "That is what I said, Dashaway." "You are carrying things with a high hand, Mr. Dawson." "Yes? Well, I know what I am doing." "You may overreach yourself." "Humph! I'll take my chances on that. You are smart, Dashaway, but you can't scare me and you can't get the best of me." "But the law will get you, some day or another." "Bah!
"They may overreach themselves yet and be brought to justice," Doctor Wesselhoff remarked. "But is there no way of identifying the diamonds unset?" "Some of them two in particular could be identified; they were a pair of magnificent solitaires, and I am sure my expert could tell them anywhere," Mr. Palmer replied.
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