How To Use Overspread In A Sentence
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Thus from the general tenor of prophecy it appears that infidelity will have overspread the world _when the Son of man shall come_ to reign upon it: And as this agrees to no other coming of his foretold by the prophets, there can be no reasonable doubt what _coming_ is intended in the text.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects
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The chain of granite mountains continued to our right, parallel with the road, which was overspread with silex, and farther on we met with a kind of basaltic tufa, forming low hills covered with sand.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
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For some seconds the whole arc of the heavens was overspread by a brilliant light.
Times, Sunday Times
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Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled webwork from the eaves.
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Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled webwork from the eaves.
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And the porch is full, and full is the court, of ghosts that hasten hellwards beneath the gloom, and the sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist has overspread the world.
Book XX
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Like the ashen-grey hue that bedims the countenance of the dying, a filmy greasy skin appeared to overspread the recent loveliness of the ocean surface.
Through the Magic Door
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It had, indeed, a very cheery aspect, the walls being overspread with a kind of stucco, in which fragments of broken glass were plentifully intermixed; so that, when the sunshine fell aslantwise over the front of the edifice, it glittered and sparkled as if diamonds had been flung against it by the double handful.
VII. The Governor’s Hall
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To that end knowing how, as well as their Mistriss, to Hood themselves, curl their locks, and wantonly overspread their breasts with a peece of fine Lawn, or Cambrick, that they seem rather to be finically over shadowed then covered, and may the better allure the weak eys of the beholders.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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Ah, wretched men, what woe is this ye suffer, shrouded in night are your heads and your faces and knees, and kindled is the voice of wailing and the path is full of phantoms and full is the court, the shadows of men hasting hellwards beneath the gloom, and the sun is perished out of heaven, and an evil mist has overspread the world.
Essays and Miscellanies
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At the distance of a few miles from Samarah stood a high mountain, whose sides were swarded with wild thyme and basil, and its summit overspread with so delightful a plain, that it might be taken for the paradise destined for the faithful.
The History of the Caliph Vathek
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The sky of the plant was overspread with smoke of the burning tires and furniture.
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A flush overspread the face of De Warenne at this apostrophe; and forcing a smile, "This strict notion of right," said he, "is very well in declamation, but how would it crop the wings of conquerors, and shorten the warrior's arm, did they measure by this rule!
The Scottish Chiefs
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Or dot, or diamonds, or paratactic , or interweave, the design that former bed is overspread also can be such.
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Between heaven and earth He separately placed in order men and things, all overspread by the heavens.
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The wind battered the stable and brought down dead matter from the oak that overspread it.
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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.
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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
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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
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At the mention of his name Tarzan had noted the sickly pallor that overspread the features of the Hun.
Tarzan the Untamed
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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
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For some seconds the whole arc of the heavens was overspread by a brilliant light.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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A wry grin overspread her lips as she found herself walking towards a small hut.
