overstep

'Tis foolishness, I ween, To overstep in aught the golden mean.

The undertaker, instructed to spare no expense, provided long-tailed black horses, with black palls on their backs and black plumes upon their foreheads; coachmen decorated with scarves and jack-boots, black hammercloths, cloaks, and gloves, with many hired mourners, who, however, would have been instantly discharged had they presumed to betray emotion, or in any way overstep their function of walking beside the hearse with brass-tipped batons in their hands.

and if you reach a line you won't overstep, you will be unhappy .

"Pardon me, Miss Henley," he cried, and the apology was unconsciously paid to the commanding purity and dignity of her air, "if I overstep the rules of decorum, and hasten to declare that which I know years of trial would hardly justify my saying; but your beauty, your grace, your your where shall I find words to express it?--your loveliness, yes, that means every thing--your loveliness has not been seen with impunity."

But whenever I find my dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and undertake the direction of him also, I overstep the truth, and come into false relations to him.

She was much more likely to overstep the bounds of reasonable conduct by some extraordinary eccentricity.

They encourage him daily to overstep the bounds of moderation, and not unfrequently to disgrace himself by positive excess.

"My father is old," said Mahtoree, looking at his aged companion, with an expression of irony, that sufficiently denoted he was one of those who overstep the trammels of education, and who are perhaps a little given to abuse the mental liberty they thus obtain.

If he oversteps the bounds he must pay the penalty."

He said: "Our discipline has been pretty good but you get frustrated at times and sometimes you overstep the boundary.

I'm not the alpha male type and I'm not possessive or jealous when it comes to my girlfriend, but this friend is always flirting with her (and others) and staying things that overstep the mark.