A power might be overrunning with gold and still defend itself very badly.

The cup which he had commended to my lips was overrunning with the gall of bitterness.

Her coffee was bubbling with rich cream, and her "yellow pone" was overrunning with butter.

The universe, he reflected, was not precisely overrunning with fairness, but it did seem that what went around came around.

In short, the whole country was fast overrunning with vagabonds, like ravening locusts, seeking where they might light, and whom they should devour.