What is "overmen"

Usage examples of "overmen".

Then the overmen of the different pits came forward to shake hands with him, whilst the miners waved their caps, shouting, "Farewell, James Starr, our master and our friend!

Ygromm told them sternly that this was to be an important test for them, to see if the new sharing with the overmen was to be approved by whatever powers watched over them all.

The camp was less than a mile away and Brannog was able to persuade Ygromm and his people that they were in the hands of friends, overmen who would be only too glad to join their own cause.

He could not believe that so many powerful overmen would offer friendship rather than the expected hostility.

The overmen, he told them, were good, and would not, as some of them seemed to think, devour Earthwrought flesh when it suited them.

The Earthwise would be overjoyed for here was proof that a sharing with the overmen was the right course of action.

The smallest acquaintance with human life in the middle ages, shows how supremely natural the dominion of the feudal nobility overmen of low condition appeared to the nobility themselves, and how unnatural the conception seemed, of a person of the inferior class claiming equality with them, or exercising authority over them.