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Woodmen must have been carting timber down this way to the village sawmills for centuries, carving a deep channel overarched with branches.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Woodmen must have been carting timber down this way to the village sawmills for centuries, carving a deep channel overarched with branches.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Into this romantic region the father and daughter proceeded, arm in arm, by a noble avenue overarched by embowering elms, beneath which groups of the fallow-deer were seen to stray in distant perspective.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

The choreographer's exaggerated expressions of sexuality -- the undulating torso and the overarched back -- expressed only: oh, I have to do another one of these things.

Archive 2007-09-01 Ann Althouse 2007

The river was a broad wrinkled glitter of black sea water, overarched by buildings, and vanishing either way into a blackness starred with receding lights.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

There were no lanterns or fairy lights in this part of the garden either, but the bench was overarched by a trellis of night-blooming jasmine, which made it just the spot for a lady to sit and enjoy the evening.

The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005

The white-painted concrete shells enclosing the oceanfront Tenerife auditorium are overarched by a cantilevered, sickle-shaped roof, 190 feet high and intended to suggest a tsunami-size wave.

The Bird Man Filler, Martin 2005

Many an uprooted palm with its golden plumes and wealth of golden husked nuts came floating down on the swirling waters, and many a narrow creek well suited for murder, overarched with trees, and up which one might travel far and still be among mangrove swamps and alligators, came down into the Larut river; and once we passed a small clearing, where some industrious

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

He continued, however, to pursue the way before him: it conducted him through the most gloomy part of the forest he had yet seen, till at length it terminated in an obscure recess, overarched with high trees, whose interwoven branches secluded the direct rays of the sun, and admitted only a sort of solemn twilight.

The Romance of the Forest 2004

They entered upon a lane confined by high banks and overarched by trees, on whose branches appeared the first green buds of spring glittering with dews.

The Romance of the Forest 2004