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

But, by the brighter light caused by the fat falling among the cinders, a shadow could be seen suddenly overspreading his countenance, his features at the same assuming a cast, half-sad, half-angry.

From The Yellow Chief by Reid, Mayne

You hit Lawyer Blakeford?” he said, with a broad grin overspreading his face.

From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville

It was discovered under the wide overspreading boughs of a clump of firs which had so grown that a perfectly clear and covered area in the center provided a Nature-made house.

From Girl Scouts in the Rockies by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

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