overcloud

Example Sentences

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To imagine how and why their home had ripped in two might just overcloud me with despair.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2018

The atmosphere has changed from dark and sullen to hopeful, and I am sure your Lordships will allow me to be equally confident that nothing will be done at Westminster to overcloud that promising sky.

From Indian speeches (1907-1909) by Morley, John

And yet, for this kind soul, looking into life with such love and hope, I must in a little while overcloud the merited Heaven of to-day, with tidings of my failure in the Catechetical Professorship!

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

No such design His heart conceives, or hope; nor let a dread So vain the mind of any overcloud 380 Who banquets here, since it dishonours me.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William

And above the stain of her false position since she had come to the Cape was the overcloud of that accusation which had first warped Sheila Macklin's life and humbled her spirit.

From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)