The traitor planned also to produce so frightful a catastrophe that terror must inevitably overwhelm the hearts of the besieged.

Sekaya lay back, trying to gather her thoughts and not let the primal terror overwhelm her.

He said terror could overwhelm reason, and it was a leader's job to bring that manner of terror to the enemy.

I held it in my hands, and felt sorrow and terror overwhelm me as I remembered the silence, and the cry of the bird and Eriel riding away from me without looking back.

I will not let the terror overwhelm me.

Adàn watched as the general sat down facing him, and a dull terror overwhelmed him.

As the old woman's fingers sank into her face, pain and terror finally overwhelmed her, and a howling scream burst from her throat.

Anger at him because he refused to let terror overwhelm him, anger because her arousal sparked no answering heat in him.

Connolly's three strands are expertly woven together, coming to twin climaxes where terror and cruelty overwhelm everyone.

No audience in 1998 may be able to watch simulations of watery deaths without thinking of "Titanic," and the number reminds us of the effectiveness of the film scene when sheer terror overwhelms even the wealthy gentlemen who have decided to die with dignity in top hat and tails.