What is "overreach"

Usage examples of "overreach".

He believed Hill to be a cunning scoundrel who had overreached the police for some purpose of his own by accusing Birchill, and who, to make his story more probable, had even implicated himself in the supposed burglary as a terrorized accomplice.

The usual pattern was a small scam that got bigger and bigger, until the scammer attracted attention by overreaching.

Having no great issues with which to identify themselves, and upon which they could openly and honorably contend for the approval of the nation, their only means for securing their respective private ends lay in secretly overreaching and supplanting each other.

But somehow, Remson was going to use the Medinan overreach to save the girl.

But I have the keeping of the household, and I ofttimes overreach myself.

Piously allowing that the dread Commoter of our globe might have seen all mortal doings, even from the depth of his own cerulean kingdom, I still felt that if a station were to be chosen from which to see the fight, old Homer, so material in his ways of thought, so averse from all haziness and overreaching, would have meant to give the god for his station some spot within reach of men’s eyes from the plains of Troy.

Mindaug wondered if this was, at long last, the moment that the Grand Duke had overreached himself.

He would have liked to have raced the mare, too, for she was beautifully conformed for speed, but he had promised to deliver her safely to Benden Hold, and an overreach or a cut, while bad enough on Kesso, was not to be risked on Fancy, as he had taken to calling the mare.

Towering above the squat figures, his three-foot knife overreached the blades that hacked at him, and its edge bit deep.

The strips on the side walls overreached the edge of the shelf below, and beyond that point the walls were more than twenty feet in height.

I had a strange feeling in my stomach and was not sure that we had not overreached ourselves with our little liaison unit.

Ah, but evil ever overreaches itself, and very great evil overreaches itself greatly.

So I must watch it coming closer and closer—it has an ugly, double-angled sort of hopping move—knowing that my only chance is to sit tight until my adversary overreaches himself and I can counterattack.

It seemed reasonable to them that men lived together solely for the purpose of overreaching and oppressing one another, and of being overreached and oppressed, and that while a society that gave full scope to these propensities could stand, there would be little chance for one based on the idea of cooperation for the benefit of all.

Had our forefathers conceived a state of society in which men should live together like brethren dwelling in unity, without strifes or envying, violence or overreaching, and where, at the price of a degree of labor not greater than health demands, in their chosen occupations, they should be wholly freed from care for the morrow and left with no more concern for their livelihood than trees which are watered by unfailing streams,--had they conceived such a condition, I say, it would have seemed to them nothing less than paradise.