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 yet, for this kind soul, looking into life with such love and hope, I must in a little while overcloud the merited Heaven of to-day, with tidings of my failure in the Catechetical Professorship!

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

Enough, my feelings are lighter than they have been; and, though fear and wonder are still around me, they are unable entirely to overcloud the horizon.

From Redgauntlet by Scott, Walter, Sir

And above the stain of her false position since she had come to the Cape was the overcloud of that accusation which had first warped Sheila Macklin's life and humbled her spirit.

From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)

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