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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an umbrageous manner.

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  • How perfect is the verdure -- how rich the blossoming shrubberies that screen with verdurous walls from the possibility of intrusion, whilst by their own wandering line of distribution they shape and umbrageously embay, what one might call lawny saloons and vestibules -- sylvan galleries and closets.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • Such applications, especially on this continent, are so astounding -- they spread themselves so largely and umbrageously before the public eye -- that they often shut out from view those workers who are engaged in the quieter and profounder business of original investigation.

    Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 John Tyndall 1856

  • And wide out-flings, like mighty wings, its arms umbrageously.

    Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

  • Having arrived at my destination, I sought out the Eastergate, a dirty street inhabited by poor people, mounted three pair of stairs till I saw through a slate-pane, knocked at a door, and was met by a woman, with an umbrageously bearded face peering out from the side of her head-gear -- that is, there was a head there in addition to her own.

    Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII Alexander Leighton 1837

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