overspreading

Example Sentences

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I went to him and saw that his eyes were sightless; already a thin film was overspreading them.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Then, dropping her eyes to the ground, she stood silent under the tree—her swarth complexion still further darkened by sombre shadows, now overspreading every feature of her face.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

But a deadly pallor overspreading her face had proved to me that my exertions to reassure her would be fruitless.

From The Best Psychic Stories by Various

So mournfully and tenderly he writes and speaks, the shadow of that sorrow at the centre of his life overspreading the whole world with darkness to him.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

He was looking out of the window, through the leafy bough of the overspreading chestnut-oak, at the deep, transparent water in the pond.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Murfree, Mary Noailles