overshade
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Origin of overshade
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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
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 Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane
A superiority naturally seems to overshade us, and presents a disagreeable comparison.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
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
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
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
From thence is a canal to a royal garden, at the distance of a coss, with a paved road forty feet broad, overshaded by trees on both sides.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert
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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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.
I instantly accepted his offer; and, bidding adieu to my friends at the parsonage, followed him down to a small creek overshaded by tall trees, where, concealed among the reeds and bushes, lay the canoe.
From Hudson Bay by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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 Shaw, Thomas
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.
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 London, Jack
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.
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
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