overspreading

Example Sentences

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I went to him and saw that his eyes were sightless; already a thin film was overspreading them.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

A man well-known to him—one he hated, yet feared, as could be told by the scowl instantly overspreading his countenance, along with a whitening of the lips.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

“Well?” he said, with a black angry look overspreading his face.

From Midnight Webs by Fenn, George Manville

So mournfully and tenderly he writes and speaks, the shadow of that sorrow at the centre of his life overspreading the whole world with darkness to him.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

When she saw the gloom overspreading her brother's countenance, her snub-nose, too, made its appearance, and, finally, her entire lovely person.

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von