overcrowding

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But what,—' his brow overclouding, 'what has a modest girl to do at Torbay?'

From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

The weeping girl turned back towards the mill; I could not resist advancing to meet her, but I almost regretted it when I saw such sorrow overclouding the young, fresh, blooming face.

From Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. I. by Auerbach, Berthold

What is all earthly life with all its bad and good luck, its riches and its poverty, but a vapour that passes away?—noise and smoke overclouding the enduring light of heaven. 

From All Saints' Day and Other Sermons by Kingsley, Charles

The Church had to resent a threatened danger; the Nonconformists were embittered by the overclouding of those hopes on which they had been taught to rely.

From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of

Bertha likewise was thoroughly overcome, not so much by these feelings, as by the mere effect of the sudden tidings on her nervous temperament, and the overclouding of the cheerfulness that had hitherto surrounded her. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary