overshade
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We left the bright green fields that belt around Manor Hamilton and the grand trees that overshade the same green fields, and drove up among the hills, in a contrary direction from Glenade.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
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 Thomas Campbell
And Echo was mute to his leisurely tread,— "How tranquil is nature reposing," he said; He onward advances, where boughs overshade, "How lonely," quoth he—and his footsteps he stayed!
From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson
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 John Lewis Burckhardt
A superiority naturally seems to overshade us, and presents a disagreeable comparison.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
What we place most hopes upon, generally proves most fatal At a small distance from the house my predecessor had made a seat, overshaded by an hedge of hawthorn and honeysuckle.
From The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
They have many walks and avenues cut in different directions through the island, some of which are paved with flag-stones, and overshaded by trees planted on both sides.
A winding gravel-walk, overshaded by an avenue of trees, and lined on both sides with richly sculptured monuments, had gradually conducted me to the summit of the hill, upon whose slope the cemetery stands.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
Hence when Peter proposed to make tents, "a bright cloud overshaded" the disciples.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
After dinner Philina sat down among the long, overshaded grass, and commanded both her friends to fetch her flowers in great quantities.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The overshading foliage of other things will do them no harm, as it will be only for a season.
From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by John Wood
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 Elisabeth G. Stryker
Her appreciation of the ridiculous was keen, and in all things she unerringly saw and felt, where it existed, the touch of sham, the overshading, the overtone.
From The Sea Wolf by Jack London
Injury from crowding and overshading may be prevented, or at least lessened, by pasturing the nurse crop with sheep for a time, at an early stage in its growth.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
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 Edwin Asa Dix
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