“They were forgiving, as they are always, for they know my history as an overreacher and have heard me give the same soliloquy many times.”

“Although unlike Marlowe's overreacher in most respects, Bolingbroke shares with Tamburlaine a consistent appeal to and use of the stylistic self.”

“Becker, a classic overreacher, came to grief in an almost comical way.”

“You cannot mention trade or business, for instance, but they will relate the frauds and overreachings by which such an one has acquired the wealth which he now possesses.”