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It was easy to recognise the steps of a staircase, beneath the roots, creepers, and brambles that overgrew them.
THE PIRATES OF THE PRAIRIESGUSTAVE AIMARDRunning rose-bushes, just leafing out into their fall greenery, overgrew the pillars beside her.
THE READJUSTMENTWILL IRWINHe waved his hand in farewell and disappeared in the tall grass that overgrew the banks of the stream.
THE QUEEN OF THE SAVANNAHGUSTAVE AIMARDThe one which lived for the longest time became quite large and overgrew the stock of the wild hazel.
GROWING NUTS IN THE NORTHCARL WESCHCKEThose details overgrew, if one may so express it, the original trunk of the story itself as fungi grow over the stump of a tree.
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK AND OTHER STORIESIVAN TURGENEVIvy overgrew this; below a wide and ragged breach a pine had set its roots in the hillside.
FOESMARY JOHNSTONAlas, it is shame that ever ye were made knight, to see such a lad to match such a knight, as the weed overgrew the corn.
LE MORTE D'ARTHUR, VOLUME I (OF II)THOMAS MALORYSuspicion overgrew confidence, and the heart bristled with the nettles and thorns of fear and jealousy.
TWELVE CAUSES OF DISHONESTYHENRY WARD BEECHERIt showed no variation but of tint: green, where rush and moss overgrew the marshes; black, where the dry soil bore only heath.
JANE EYRECHARLOTTE BRONTESoon a tangle of briers and wild vines overgrew and netted them all into a close, impenetrable, luxuriant mass.
OLD-TIME GARDENSALICE MORSE EARLE