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

But his fear of Edna's displeasure, though it might overcloud, could not prohibit his performance of a task he thought ought to be done.

From The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day by Stephens, Robert Neilson

She had a gaiety and insouciance, and a natural childlike merriment that all her terrible disasters could not overcloud.

From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Mack, Louise

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

Judge, then, whether I have not cause to warn you of an indulgence, which may produce so terrible an effect, and which must certainly, if not opposed, overcloud the years, that otherwise might be happy.

From The Mysteries of Udolpho by Radcliffe, Ann Ward