canopying

(In fact, the clear delineation of the altar and sanctuary by a rood screen might even be thought to have a similar "canopying" like effect that the ciborium visually has, insofar as it delineates that space and the altar within it.)

Potentialities of the Rood Screen Today 2009

An old, Black man, a young spotted giraffe, and even a horny spider monkey on the loose in the palm tree fronds canopying Hollywood.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

An old, Black man, a young spotted giraffe, and even a horny spider monkey on the loose in the palm tree fronds canopying Hollywood.

“The Mick” 2008

One minute it was here, canopying her soul to drugged insensibility, the next minute it was gone, leaving her alone in her body. next »

Excerpt: The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak 2007

Twilight, in these southern climates, is almost unknown; immediately the sun sets, night begins: and ere he had advanced far, the power of the storm was above — its echoing thunders had scarcely an interval of rest — its thick heavy rain forced its way through the canopying foliage, whilst the blue forked lightning seemed to fall and radiate at his very feet.

The Vampyre 2004

Her eyebrows were plucked flat, canopying small, olive drab, porcine eyes rimmed with red.

Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

Her eyebrows were plucked flat, canopying small, olive drab, porcine eyes rimmed with red.

Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

Her eyebrows were plucked flat, canopying small, olive drab, porcine eyes rimmed with red.

Over the Edge Jonathan Kellerman 1987

Paxton's fairy palace of glass and iron, erected in Hyde Park, and canopying in its glittering spaces the untouched, majestic elms of that national pleasure-ground as well as the varied treasures of industrial and artistic achievement brought from every quarter of the globe, divided the charmed astonishment of foreign spectators with the absolute orderliness of the myriads who thronged it and crowded all its approaches on the great opening day.

Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling

The languor of sleep being still upon him, he lazily watched the quivering of a sunbeam that was caught in the canopying boughs above.

Flip, a California romance Bret Harte 1869