overspreading
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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
She looked up at him with a kind of wonder in her eyes, and with that "fiery rose" quite suddenly overspreading her face again.
From My Little Sister by Elizabeth Robins
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 Mayne Reid
“Well?” he said, with a black angry look overspreading his face.
From Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn
Otmar rose from his knees, a deep blush overspreading his handsome countenance.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
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