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Updated: May 18, 2025
I wonder why we so often use a preposterous voice, a super-sweetened whine, in talking to children? Is it that the effort to realise an ideal of gentleness and affectionateness overreaches itself in this form of the grotesque? Some good intention must be the root of it. But the thing is none the less pernicious. A "cant" voice is as abominable as a cant phraseology.
In this he imitated Polykrates, the despot of Samos an unworthy model for a Spartan general. Nor was it like a Spartan to treat the gods as badly as he treated his enemies, or even worse for the man who overreaches his enemy by breaking his oath admits that he fears his enemy, but despises his god. IX. Cyrus now sent for Lysander to Sardis, and gave him a supply of money, with promise of more.
But young Webster got me! What did he say? 'The cleverer the criminal, the easier to run him down. The thug, acting on the spur of the moment, with a blow in the dark and a getaway through the night, leaves no trace behind him. Your "smart criminal" always overreaches himself. A pretty theory, but wild. Anyway, it made me forget myself; I talked my old fool head off." He felt himself blush.
It is true, that he indemnifies himself after his own manner; that is to say, by the address with which he disposes of his merchandise to advantage, and by the cunning by which he overreaches an Arab. The latter, in general, are exceedingly stupid.
The prospect in that direction is apparently as illimitable as from the shore of an ocean. The sky is almost invariably clear, and the water intensely blue, except where it dashes over fragments of rock that have fallen from some adjacent cliff, or where a wave, more aspiring than its fellows, overreaches itself and breaks into a thin line of foam.
"But Oily Dave is such a slippery old rogue, and sometimes he overreaches even himself." Then she told Mrs. M'Kree about the disappearance of the lard, and how she had recognized the bucket upon which Jamie had been drumming so vigorously. "What will you do?" asked Mrs. M'Kree. "I don't see what we can do, except keep a sharper lookout in future.
I know that wherever the human foot has trodden the soil, that might triumphs over right, that the strong oppress the weak, that the poor and dependent too often become the servants of the rich; that the man of quick discernment, too often overreaches and takes advantage of his simple, less gifted, and unsuspecting neighbor.
"You're so precious sharp, my dear," said the hunchback, who knew well on what point George liked to be flattered, "that you overreaches yourself. I don't complain after all the business we've done together that it's turned slack all of a sudden. You says they're down on you, and that's enough for me.
I come down from the hill with a soul resurgent, strong like the heave that overreaches the sag of the sea, and bold in my faith to a lot of college students as the hope of the world!
A plotting head frequently overreaches itself: a mind confident of its resources and calculating powers enters on critical speculations, which in a game depending so much on chance and unforeseen events, and not entirely on intellectual skill, turn the odds greatly against any one in the long run.
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