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

What strange emotions overcloud my soul, Stirred to her depths on hearing this thy tale!

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

A flame, pure as the fire of Vesta, burns for thee in her bosom, and would waste her life, should folly and caprice overcloud thy soul to the refusing her favour.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

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

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)