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
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
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 Donnell, Annie Hamilton
A superiority naturally seems to overshade us, and presents a disagreeable comparison.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
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.
But this clarity of the transfiguration was seen not only in Christ's body, but also in His garments, and in "the bright cloud" which "overshaded" the disciples.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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)
And Nur al-Din saw a fair bystreet, swept and sprinkled, whereon the zephyr blew and made pleasantness pervade it and the leaves of the trees overshaded it.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
It is a mountain quite overshaded by a dark wood of fir-trees.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban
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 Goldsmith, Oliver
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.
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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
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
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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