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It will be seen from the plan that the overhang aft runs out into a point, and that there is thus no transom.
THE SOUTH POLE, VOLUMES 1 AND 2ROALD AMUNDSEN
Masses of red valerian, and some of the graceful bright rose-bay willow-herb, give colour to the banks and overhang the walls.
DEVON, ITS MOORLANDS, STREAMS AND COASTSROSALIND NORTHCOTE
They felt safer in their boat, adrift in a tree-bordered lagoon, even if dark, mysterious foliage did overhang them.
CAPTAIN TEDLOUIS PENDLETON
Here and there the rock juts out among the villas that overhang the river, while verdure shows on the high banks.
OLD CONTINENTAL TOWNSWALTER M. GALLICHAN
One bank of it is covered with dark trees that overhang and make green pictures of themselves in the water when the wind is still.
POND AND STREAMARTHUR RANSOME
As soon as I looked up I saw it, too, dark and beetling, like the overhang of a low cliff.
ROMANCEJOSEPH CONRAD AND F.M. HUEFFER
But an overhang checked his bulky figure and gave me a few seconds' grace.
PRESTER JOHNJOHN BUCHAN
Overbold, audacious; overhang, impend; overweigh, preponderate.
AN OUTLINE OF ENGLISH SPEECH-CRAFTWILLIAM BARNES
The vegetation was often so rank as to overhang the narrow and steep roads up which we wended our way.
DUE WESTMATURIN MURRAY BALLOU
Great wreaths formed in the first swirl of the storms had piled themselves up so as to overhang the low chimney.
PATSYS. R. CROCKETT

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