overcloud

Example Sentences

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To imagine how and why their home had ripped in two might just overcloud me with despair.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2018

And those conjure images, those, The puppets of loss or gain; Not he who is bare to his doom; For whom never semblance plays To bewitch, overcloud, illume.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

The wind and rain had increased, but he no longer heeded them in his feverish haste and his consciousness that motion could alone keep away that dreadful apathy which threatened to overcloud his judgment.

From Trent's Trust, and Other Stories by Harte, Bret

But his plans were rendered abortive by the strange malady which about that time began to overcloud his splendid genius.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

They also remarked to each other that though Fidele smiled so sweetly, yet so sad a melancholy did overcloud his lovely face, as if grief and patience had together taken possession of him.

From Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb, Mary