overshade
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Origin of overshade
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Suckers should not be allowed to overshade the graft, though it is best not to remove them until danger of disturbing the graft is past.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
This is a most romantic spot; large oak and walnut trees overshade the stream, which higher up flows over a rocky bed; nearer the village are some olive plantations in the Wady.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis
Yet still the veil I must obey, Which, whatsoe'er the aspect of the day, Thine eyes' fair radiance hides, my life to overshade.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
The Night doth never overshade this Land, for the light of a Pure and Serene Sky keeps it constantly bright.
From The Purgatory of St. Patrick by MacCarthy, Denis Florence
A superiority naturally seems to overshade us, and presents a disagreeable comparison.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
She now found herself in a large hall, where she saw an elevated chair overshaded by a canopy of crimson velvet, on the top of which was a crown.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander
Even in the civil turmoil of 13th Vendémiaire, his actual services had been overshaded by the official dignity of Barras, as commander-in-chief.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various
Farther down we came to two copious springs, most picturesquely situated among the rocks, being overshaded by large wild fig-trees, a great number of which grow in other parts of this district.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis
At a small distance from our habitation was a seat overshaded by a hedge of hawthorn and honeysuckle.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
On its summit is a heap of stones overshaded by a very large wild pistachio tree.
From Travels in Syria and the Holy Land by Burckhardt, John Lewis
Finding some coffee beans, as they call them here, upon the grave, and which grew upon a tree overshading it, I secured them for a memento.
From My First Campaign by Grant, J. W.
It is full of wooded islands and rocky promontories projecting into the water and overshading it with their trees.
From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen
With his commanding figure, hollow voice, his thick and powdered hair, his long, bushy eyebrows overshading a deep-set and dim eye, he seemed a living, speaking century.
From Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty by Lamartine, Alphonse de
There is the ascent to Superbagnères, an easy monticule overshading Luchon, whose view is ranked with that from the Bergonz.
From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa
Their degradation made him ready to endure all things if only he could pierce the black cloud overshading them.
From A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 by Stryker, Elisabeth G.
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