I hope nothing will happen to overcloud to-mor-row. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Because he was a strict discipliarian, and you can see this would overcloud what was really there. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, August 4, 1974. Interview G-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
And by this letting the issue overcloud the actual problem, to get people to share and promote this in any ways possible. From Wordnik.com. [The nonsense of "knowledge management"] Reference
We all foresaw, that the situation of this admirable lady would overcloud a little (we hoped hut a little) the — happiest days that ever mortals knew. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
And you need not take any notice what quantity of fine small Laces she hath occasion for, by reason it might perhaps overcloud this sixth pleasure of marriage, which you now possess. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
Judge, then, whether I have not cause to warn you of an indulgence, which may produce so terrible an effect, and which must certainly, if not opposed, overcloud the years, that otherwise might be happy. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Udolpho] Reference
Does our heaven overcloud because we lack certainty?. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning]
Cape was the overcloud of that accusation which had first warped. From Wordnik.com. [Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod] Reference
Suddenly Annie's shyness, reserve, whatever it was, seemed to overcloud her. From Wordnik.com. [The Butterfly House] Reference
Archaeology is dangerous because it may easily overcloud one's aesthetic sensibility. From Wordnik.com. [Art] Reference
By shouts and threats they sought to drown the truth, and to overcloud reason, and to darken justice. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations on the Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.] Reference
Somewhere, something had happened to overcloud his day, to uncover ancestral resemblances, possibilities. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
Shades of sadness, which gradually assumed a darker character, began to overcloud the young mans temper. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to Guy Mannering (1829)] Reference
– Such gloomy presentiments will overcloud this day with more pain for me, than your severest remonstrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Manor House] Reference
It is a comparatively thoughtful and anxious class of men who systematically overcloud the present by anticipations of the future. From Wordnik.com. [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference
Enough, my feelings are lighter than they have been; and, though fear and wonder are still around me, they are unable entirely to overcloud the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
Divine Master's love only darken and chill our own hearts; they overcloud the clear perceptions of His perfect character, and turn our own affections into coldness. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. Volume The Fourth.] Reference
Cousin Silas among us, to give us his advice, and to set an example of patience and hope, and faith in God's merciful providence, and a cheerfulness which nothing could overcloud. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage round the World A book for boys] Reference
"Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail," -- these he knew from bitter experience, yet never allowed them to overcloud his buoyant spirits, but made them serve his artistic purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference
They also remarked to each other, that though Fidele smiled so sweetly, yet so sad a melancholy did overcloud his lovely face, as if grief and patience had together taken possession of him. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Shakespeare] Reference
If I had had but comfortable hopes of their poor, pale, prostrate child, so clever and so interesting, I should have parted easily on this occasion, but these misgivings overcloud the prospect. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
Let the affections be ordered aright, then light which is offered shall be seen and received; but let light be offered when disordered affections do overcloud the eye of the mind, then all is in vain. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
The wind and rain had increased, but he no longer heeded them in his feverish haste and his consciousness that motion could alone keep away that dreadful apathy which threatened to overcloud his judgment. From Wordnik.com. [Trent's Trust, and Other Stories] Reference
Suffer not the habitation wherein dwelleth My undying love for thee to be destroyed through the tyranny of covetous desires, and overcloud not the beauty of the heavenly Youth with the dust of self and passion. From Wordnik.com. [Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh] Reference
It was pleasant to my eye, which has always been so wearied in our country by the sombre masses of men that overcloud our public assemblies, to see them now in so great variety of costume, color, and decoration. From Wordnik.com. [At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe] Reference
As the Arabs say, there is a black speck, were it no bigger than a beans eye, in every soul; which once set it a-working, will overcloud the whole man into darkness and quasi-madness, and hurry him balefully into Night!. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 50-73] Reference
Mor., xxviii, 11: Otherwise; if the light that "is in thee," that is, if what we have begun to do well, we overcloud with evil purpose, when we do things which we know to be in themselves evil, "how great is the darkness!". From Wordnik.com. [Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew] Reference
His indigence often subjected him to straits which must have been hard to bear; but he was of a sanguine, joyous disposition, and poverty, though it might temporarily overcloud his happiness, had no power to break his indomitable spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference
When autumn came, it might have made him wonder, if he had had leisure to consider himself, to find how his spirits rose, and his heart grew light, exactly when dismay and dread began to overcloud every face about him, but when he saw that suspense and struggle were coming to an end. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance] Reference
A darker character, began to overcloud the young man's temper. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829] Reference
So vain the mind of any overcloud 380. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
What strange emotions overcloud my soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference
That sight of thee should overcloud their joy. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Year] Reference
Than overcloud Thy soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Year] Reference
To bewitch, overcloud, illume. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
"Why seek now to overcloud that fact?. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress Wilding] Reference
Take part, then, with the Gods, nor overcloud. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Plays in English Verse] Reference
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