1 Because to-morrow, Haidee, you will be free; you will then assume your proper position in society, for I will not allow my destiny to overshadow yours.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October. 2 Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XIV. 3 My tears flow; my mind is overshadowed by a cloud of disappointment.
4 His fame, though still on its upward slope, already overshadowed the soberer reputations of his fellow-clergymen, eminent as several of them were.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART 5 Presently black night overshadowed our enthusiast, who had so entirely missed his part of copying-clerk at a police-office; some vast object seemed to be thrown over him.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE 6 In the dark hours which followed, that awful fact overshadowed even her father's slow and difficult dying.
7 The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances.
8 As the days wore on, and no ill news came, as the day closed in and darkness fell, my overshadowing dread of being disabled by illness before to-morrow morning altogether mastered me.
9 There was a large beech-tree overshadowing the place, and the small, sharp, triangular beech-nuts lay scattered thickly on the ground.
10 Yet therewith many a diverse-worded counsel is for Turnus, and the great name of the queen overshadows him, and he rises high in renown of trophies fitly won.