The sun by this time was straight overhead, but my umbrella saved me from absolute discomfort, while birds furnished here and there an agreeable diversion.

High overhead the gentle breeze still sighed among the pines, and whispered secrets as it passed through the fragrant green needles with their attendant cones.

The gale drives wildly overhead with a fierce, tempestuous roar, but its violence is not felt, for you are looking through a sheltered opening in the woods as through a window.

Open space was about him, and he was lying on a pile of bricks and mortar, his clothes soaked with dew, and the kind stars shining brightly overhead.

The ground about me is strewn with flowers and buds, the air is heavy with fragrance, and the bees are buzzing softly overhead.

Here fresh funeral tears were shed; Now the graves are also dead; And suckers from the ash-tree spread, While Day and Night and Day go by; And stars move calmly overhead.

Their journey to the eastward, which carried them through the heart of this rich and highly-favoured country, was now less arduous; and though the ground was still wet from the late soaking rains, the sun shone cheerily overhead, and the horses, revelling in the abundant rich grass and succulent herbage, began to recover their strength.

And so they waited, the Cardinals in their thrones beside the high-altar, and the man who had lost his memory beside them; while the organ pealed out continuously overhead and endless footsteps went to and fro over the carpeted ways and the open stone spaces of the transepts.

When David reached the buffalo track he could no longer see even dimly, the forest closing densely in on both sides of the narrow path, and arching darkly overhead.

Deer and pig are bounding to safety while birds and wild bees hover distractedly overhead.

They heard her crying excitedly overhead.

I wonder the walls do not open and fall on me," and poor Betty gazed half fearfully overhead, as if she expected the rafters would descend upon the author of such treasonable sentiments.

I ran into the Christies, but could find no one below; however, I heard a great running backwards and forwards overhead, and presently Mr. Christie called out of the bedroom window, 'Wait one moment, Jack; we are all coming to see you off.'

Suffice it that in another second he was galloping full tilt down the valley with his sword whirling furiously overhead.

Crickets sounded their note, a few silent birds winged furtively overhead.

The bacon sizzled with an appetizing aroma and a bullet sizzled harmlessly overhead.

The lamps swung heavily overhead, swayed by the unceasing rolling of the ship; a drowsy waiter slumbered at one of the tables, his head resting on his folded arms; and one or two sleepy passengers tried to maintain a recumbent posture on the broad sofas that lined the sides.

They still huddled there in the partial protection of the wady, while all the evil jinnee of the sand-storm shrieked blackly overhead.

But presently, glancing upward, he saw a small cluster of stars blinking, voluptuous, immeasurably overhead.

The sun was hot and he was glad of the shade of a big alder whose leaves rustled languidly overhead.

After many halts, the breaking of an engine-piston rendered them helpless, and the heat of the day found them in a desolate place among kopjes that seemed to crowd them in, cutting off every current of air, while the sun blazed mercilessly overhead and the sand-flies ceaselessly buzzed and tormented.

Green parrots are screaming in the tamarind trees and overhead a white-throated Brahmany kite wheels motionless in the vivid blue.

Each time we did this half a dozen bullets went zipping through the canvas or just past overhead.

She stood alone with her face to the grey storm-clouds that drifted perpetually overhead.

Once too he heard a footstep pass softly and rhythmically overhead, as if some watcher moved up and down the length of the upper deck.