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Examples
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And Nur al-Din saw a fair bystreet, swept and sprinkled, whereon the zephyr blew and made pleasantness pervade it and the leaves of the trees overshaded it.
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At a small distance from the house my predecessor had made a seat, overshaded by an hedge of hawthorn and honeysuckle.
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Hence when Peter proposed to make tents, "a bright cloud overshaded" the disciples.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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It is a mountain quite overshaded by a dark wood of fir-trees.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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European grapes have been transplanted, and several attempts made to raise wine in Carolina; but so overshaded are the vines planted in the woods, and so foggy is the season of the year when they begin to ripen, that they seldom come to maturity.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2 Alexander Hewatt
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After dinner Philina sat down among the long overshaded grass, and commanded both her friends to fetch her flowers in great quantities.
Chapter IV. Book II 1917
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He felt a great fondness for Laura; but if there was anything more in this fondness than tranquil fatherly affection, if there was any passion, only he knew it; the fire lurked very deep in his overshaded soul.
Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914
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Here turning a corner of the road which was overshaded by a huge chestnut-tree, he suddenly came face to face with the Reverend
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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Here turning a corner of the road which was overshaded by a huge chestnut-tree, he suddenly came face to face with the Reverend
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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Here turning a corner of the road which was overshaded by a huge chestnut-tree, he suddenly came face to face with the Reverend
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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