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

No such design His heart conceives, or hope; nor let a dread So vain the mind of any overcloud 380 Who banquets here, since it dishonours me.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

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

If such there be, O grief and shame to think    That sight of thee should overcloud their joy, A new-born soul, just waiting on the brink    Of endless life, yet wrapt in earth's annoy!

From The Christian Year by Keble, John

"Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail,"— these he knew from bitter experience, yet never allowed them to overcloud his buoyant spirits, but made them serve his artistic purposes.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright