overshade
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Origin of overshade
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A superiority naturally seems to overshade us, and presents a disagreeable comparison.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
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
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
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
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 McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon
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 Bewick, John
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
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.
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
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 Wood, John
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
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.
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
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