Adjective : an umbrageous tree. From Dictionary.com.
Or shield thee in umbrageous bowers. From Wordnik.com. [Letter 408] Reference
He was "umbrageous," ready to be discomposed by the action of others, but, if not vexed or startled, he was elaborately courteous. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
Then, where the grove with leaves umbrageous bends. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
And stripp'd the groves of their umbrageous honours. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake of Geneva] Reference
On reaching the centre of this umbrageous feeding-ground. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
While reposing under the umbrageous shade of the Argan tree, a. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Morocco] Reference
Mystery, the umbrageous priestesses of the Invisible, the Young. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
Three avenues, more or less umbrageous, are open to us; all of which have been entered. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
The fig trees are often planted in rows, they are very umbrageous, and look very healthy. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
His walls are not wainscoted, and there is about his house no umbrageous park nor verdant lawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
All buildings, residential or otherwise, are protected from the summer heat by umbrageous trees. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country] Reference
After breakfast an adjournment to the umbrageous shade of the bananas was proposed and agreed to. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
Not a sunbeam could penetrate the umbrageous canopy of boughs, whose formation and evergreen hue bore. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
His herdsman's staff was planted over the spot where he was martyred, and grew into an umbrageous tree. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850] Reference
We entered its thick and umbrageous covert, and were near losing our road before we reached the barrier gate. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath] Reference
In some spots the Milola, an umbrageous hibiscus, with large yellowish flowers, grows in masses along the bank. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries] Reference
Farther on, low vallies spread their umbrageous thickets, where the dusky shadows of night had begun to assemble. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Should they do so, the distinction between personal and any other information was not an obscure or umbrageous one. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He put the roses in his breast and they walked on for a little while, slowly and silently, under the umbrageous trees. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
Another branch of this umbrageous if not fructuous tree of lunar superstition is the moon's influence on human fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
His trees extended their cool, umbrageous branches over the merchants, who assembled in the Agora, for many generations. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Few contrivances more umbrageous than the combination of its long, feathery foliations into its perfection of a parasol. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
The whole range of the valley, including its bed, and steep lofty sides, was overspread with a dark and umbrageous forest. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
For the moment he was at a loss; then the truth flashed upon him and he looked up into the umbrageous foliage of the tree. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
Not far away was the bank of a canal, bordered by a magnificent avenue shaded by a double row of immense umbrageous trees. From Wordnik.com. [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference
Of course, the sky is blue, the grass succulent, the fields green, the trees umbrageous, the clouds silent and mysterious. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
Its summit displays a glittering ice-cap, and we are certain to find the proper isotherm by climbing its umbrageous sides. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
But perhaps Gore Vidal is really not as vain as his umbrageous (adj. easily offended) communicants would have us suspectÂ…. From Wordnik.com. [Myra, Myron, & Gore] Reference
Riding through the umbrageous lanes between countless orchards you could believe anything but that people here were starving. From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
Nothing could surpass the beauty of the scenery, amid abundance of water, umbrageous trees, cattle, verdure, and distant mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
A few nights since, as I was about retiring beneath the umbrageous shade of a lovely maple, a voice from above shouted, "Is 'Alf' here?". From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
The rustling citron, lime, and orange, shady mango with its fruits of gold, and the palmetto's umbrageous beauty, all welcomed the child of sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
"Tell me all about it, China -- but the sun is hot, come under the shade of this tree," and the master led the way to an umbrageous beech close by. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
His thoughts swiftly pierced the shadows of the past; that umbrageous past, darkened with war and carnage; the memory of triumphs; the bitterness of defeats!. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
It makes one shiver to think how dripping with wet are those deep, umbrageous nooks, those overshadowed banks, where we find such enjoyment during sultry afternoons. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Our route lay partly through a swamp, and on each side the dark, umbrageous foliage, unbroken by any clearing, lent to the road solemnity, and to the air a refreshing coolness. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
One may again trace his fondness for the rich scenery of nature, when he in 1777 purchased a wild umbrageous valley near Lichfield, with its mossy fountain of the purest water. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
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