umbrageous
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It was a town surrounded by rich tidal rivers and marshes, a serene haven of antebellum houses on large lots, of streets crisscrossing through umbrageous tunnels of live oak and banks of riotous azaleas.
From Time Magazine Archive
After junking the car, the four sprint through a "dense and umbrageous forest" of Douglas fir, and the sheriff's gun changes hands at least three more times.
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Luckily for the Nieuw Amsterdam, the characteristic tradition of Dutch art. which is that of lucid Jan Vermeer and not that of umbrageous Rembrandt, contains excellent precedent for marine design.
From Time Magazine Archive
Voters are urged, for instance, to pick List No. 169, the one approved by the umbrageous Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani.
From Time Magazine Archive
Below-decks, we formed as best we could in straitened space and umbrageous darkness.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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