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

“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

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 Robins, Elizabeth

A branch of a tree overspreading the water catches his attention.

From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess