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
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 Elizabeth Rundle Charles
"For money there is much to be had!" he croaked, a sardonic smile overspreading his withered face, while his long fingers clawed invisible heaps of gold.
From The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Sir Thomas did see—sharing the other’s alarm, but without showing it—a sheet of water that shone silvery white under the moonlight overspreading all the plain below.
From No Quarter! by Mayne Reid
"Nay," answered the Captain, a flush of anger overspreading his bronzed features.
From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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