overspreads

Small boulders of amygdaloid, quartz, granite, and sandstone mark the prevalence of the drift stratum, such as overspreads the upper Mississippi uplands.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

Small boulders of amygdaloid, quartz, granite, and sandstone mark the prevalence of the drift stratum, such as overspreads the upper Mississippi uplands.

Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828

The young Dawn overspreads the East streak'd with gold!

Letter 20 2009

Tomorrow (Thursday): We may start just cloudy, but light snow overspreads the region from southwest to northeast during the morning (by 7-10 a.m.) and continues much of the day before tapering during the late afternoon or evening.

PM Update: Still cold, waiting on snow Ian Livingston 2010

Instead the confusion of that honor with the sympathy you get for suffering, which plays into the left's position that all soldiers are helpless fluff, overspreads the entire topic; and the media's business model, that suffering plays to its audience's interests.

Should McCain be asked how his experience in Vietnam qualifies him to be President? Ann Althouse 2008

The Phasis itself is the most stagnant of all rivers, and runs the smoothest; all the fruits which spring there are unwholesome, feeble and imperfect growth, owing to the redundance of water, and on this account they do not ripen, for much vapor from the waters overspreads the country.

On Airs, Waters, And Places 2007

The trooper sinks upon a seat behind him, and great drops start out upon his forehead, and a deadly pallor overspreads his face.

Bleak House 2007

It is a fair, warm summer morning, and the sun shines on them, as they walk towards the darkening mist that overspreads the City.

Dombey and Son 2007

Perhaps this wet cloth in the original, is what we now call laudanum; a potion that overspreads the faculties, as the wet cloth did the face of the royal patient; and the translator knew not how to render it.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

I wish, and that for their sakes more than for my own, that they would yet relent — but I am very ill — I must drop my pen — a sudden faintness overspreads my heart — excuse my crooked writing! —

Clarissa Harlowe 2006