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And Nur al-Din saw a fair bystreet, swept and sprinkled, whereon the zephyr blew and made pleasantness pervade it and the leaves of the trees overshaded it.
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At a small distance from the house my predecessor had made a seat, overshaded by an hedge of hawthorn and honeysuckle.
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Hence when Peter proposed to make tents, "a bright cloud overshaded" the disciples.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
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It is a mountain quite overshaded by a dark wood of fir-trees.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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European grapes have been transplanted, and several attempts made to raise wine in Carolina; but so overshaded are the vines planted in the woods, and so foggy is the season of the year when they begin to ripen, that they seldom come to maturity.
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After dinner Philina sat down among the long overshaded grass, and commanded both her friends to fetch her flowers in great quantities.
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He felt a great fondness for Laura; but if there was anything more in this fondness than tranquil fatherly affection, if there was any passion, only he knew it; the fire lurked very deep in his overshaded soul.
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Here turning a corner of the road which was overshaded by a huge chestnut-tree, he suddenly came face to face with the Reverend
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Here turning a corner of the road which was overshaded by a huge chestnut-tree, he suddenly came face to face with the Reverend
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Here turning a corner of the road which was overshaded by a huge chestnut-tree, he suddenly came face to face with the Reverend
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