mastering

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this the wretched woman, clammy-handed, dishevelled, reckless of all save her own mastering agony, who--her haggard mother-eyes unable to attain the boon of any tears--had hoarsely forbidden him her presence for ever? — Doctor Cupid: A Novel, Rhoda Broughton
Old Tom's ugly, little crooked form sprang from the pit to complete the mastering of the great glorious creature whose mighty strength had proved as nothing when matched with the wits of a little old man. — Wild Animals I Have Known, Ernest Thompson Seton
You must have been under lock and key, dear boy, to know it equal to me,—but I ain’t a-going to be low.” It occurred to me as inconsistent, that, for any mastering idea, he should have endangered his freedom, and even his life. — Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

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