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from The Century Dictionary.
- Spread under or beneath.
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Examples
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The gloomy day grew darker as he spoke; a curtain of cloud underspread the sky and a few drops of rain fell audibly.
Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909
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The gloomy day grew darker as he spoke; a curtain of cloud underspread the sky and a few drops of rain fell audibly.
Can Such Things Be 1893
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A while after 8, three or four great black clouds suddenly rose, seemingly from different points, and sweeping with broad swirls of wind but no thunder, underspread the orbs from view everywhere, and indicated a violent heat-storm.
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The gloomy day grew darker as he spoke; a curtain of cloud underspread the sky and a few drops of rain fell audibly.
Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1878
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A while after 8, three or four great black clouds suddenly rose, seemingly from different points, and sweeping with broad swirls of wind but no thunder, underspread the orbs from view everywhere, and indicated a violent heat-storm.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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A while after 8, three or four great black clouds suddenly rose, seemingly from different points, and sweeping with broad swirls of wind but no thunder, underspread the orbs from view everywhere, and indicated a violent heatstorm.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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