overspread

How To Use overspread In A Sentence

• Or dot, or diamonds, or paratactic , or interweave, the design that former bed is overspread also can be such.
• A wry grin overspread her lips as she found herself walking towards a small hut.
• 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
• When the current is repelled from the sea by adverse winds, when the ordinary bed is inadequate to the weight of waters, they rise above the banks, and overspread, without limits or control, the plains and cities of the adjacent country. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• For some seconds the whole arc of the heavens was overspread by a brilliant light. Times, Sunday Times
• 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
• At the mention of his name Tarzan had noted the sickly pallor that overspread the features of the Hun. Tarzan the Untamed
• It seemed as if that crop of figures, like the innumerable florets of the whiteweed, now overspreading your paternal farm, were exhausting the last vitality from a shallow soil. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859
• The traditions of the Christian Church, which overspread the whole of Europe, and set up for worship a Divine Virgin and her Divine Son, both of whom it elaborately disengaged from personal contact with sexuality effectually crushed any attempt to find a sacred and avowable ideal in married love. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
• And revelling in such dreams, she saw not the agony which overspread her listener's face as he read her thoughts partly awrong, and believed her content to throw herself away forever, in order to gain some temporary exaltation as a wealthy Roman's plaything. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.