overcoloured

In the side street where I was moving the lamps had gone out, and in the faint light from the aurora that was seeping through thin cloud banks the snow had a bluish tinge like an overcoloured Christmas card.

Northlight Hall, Adam, 1920- 1985

Herbert even went so far as to plead guilty, when Grisel gave him the cue, of having a little heightened and overcoloured his story of the restless phantasmal old creature that haunted their queer wooden hauntable old house.

The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

Something in him worked upon her imagination, something, no doubt, in the overcoloured, romantic yarns current about the Lone Wolf, and so had touched her heart.

The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf Louis Joseph Vance 1906

He had done it when she was very young, because he had not long to stay; and he had overcoloured the pictures in order that the impression should be vivid and indelible when he was gone.

The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

He had done it when she was very young, because he had not long to stay; and he had overcoloured the pictures in order that the impression should be vivid and indelible when he was gone.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

The love passages are pauses in a course of violent action, the assassination of Rizzio, the murder of Darnley are not overcoloured melodramatically, and the scenes in and about the

Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873

Their literature, in short, however overcoloured it may have been, did represent a generally prevailing characteristic among men of excessive sensibility at a time of stir and tumult in the world around them; it was not a mere unnatural invention, though we must leave to the psychologist the task of tracing a connection between this mental attitude and the circumstances that generated it.

Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873

Hence the accounts of the reverent demeanour of the people toward Montezuma, though perhaps overcoloured, are not so absurd as Mr. Morgan deemed them.

The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871

England in Ireland has been enormously exaggerated and overcoloured by

Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question Henry Thring Thring 1862

One of two inferences is obvious here; either his lordship has overcoloured the statement, or the company could not be the respectable one represented.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861