overshade
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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
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 U. P. Hedrick
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
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 Denis Florence MacCarthy
A cloud had settled on the child's vivid little face and threatened to overshade the childlier child, as well.
From Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings by Annie Hamilton Donnell
They sat by the roadside on a leafy bank overshaded with cool branches, and, producing the reduplication of the Barrie stores procured the night before at Collingwood, proceeded to lunch al fresco.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell
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 Robert Kerr
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
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
Opposite to the house where Charlotte's parents lived, was a little opening, ornamented with a grass-plot, and overshaded by a venerable tree, commanding an extensive view before it.
From The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror by John Bewick
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
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
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 William Cullen Bryant
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
O auspicious King, that Queen Zubaydah entered the garden one day and, coming to the swimming- bath, gazed upon its goodliness; and the sheen of the water and the overshading of the trees pleased her.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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