It was fine, but overclouded and decidedly dark.

At this unexpected address Captain Obadiah's face fell from its expression of malicious triumph, growing longer and longer, until at last it was overclouded with so much doubt and anxiety that, had he been threatened by the loss of a thousand pounds, he could not have assumed a greater appearance of mortification and dejection.

But the shadow of the coveted Lion's paw had suddenly overclouded him and changed his mood.

Poor Verty's face began to be overclouded.

But these thoughts and feelings, though they may have dimmed the brightness of his anticipations, could not for long overcloud that 'unfailing cheerfulness' which contributed much to make him throughout life so successful himself, and so helpful to others: still less could they for a moment check the alacrity with which he set himself to prepare for his new duties.

" It was a stormy night, August 30, 1658, when the wild winds were roaring and all nature was overclouded with darkness and gloom, that the last intelligible words of the dying hero were heard by his attendants: "O Lord!

Cease, Eleonora, cease these needles plaints, Less usefull than thy helpe of hands was at The deed of darkness,oh, the blackest deed That ever overclouded my felicity!

It is with deep concern I am now to inform you that the favorable prospect has been overclouded by a refusal of the British Government to abide by the act of its minister plenipotentiary, and by its ensuing policy toward the United States as seen through the communications of the minister sent to replace him.

The stroke which had prostrated the body, which reduced the vigorous, active frame to an awful statuelike stillnessa quietude as of death of itselfhad not overclouded the intellect.

As if to prove the strength of human fortitude, the sky became suddenly overclouded, and 'darkness was upon the face of the deep.'

The moon being overclouded, and the lantern extinguished, it was too dark to discern the figures of the combatants, and in a few seconds all became silent, except the groans of a wounded man.

Her passion for the stage, and overclouded prospects for the future, led her in early youth to write a play.

Every dog has his day: but the day of the rational dog is overclouded in a fashion unknown to his inferior fellow-creature; it is overclouded by the anticipation of the coming day which will not be his.

Every dog has his day: but the day of the rational dog is overclouded in a fashion unknown to his inferior fellow-creature; it is overclouded by the anticipation of the coming day which will not be his.

She was not, however,and the disappointment considerably overclouded the commercial victory of the morning.

* Mrs. Brown of Newquay, who claims to be the original Mrs. Partington, told me that SYDNEY SMITH'S last years were overclouded by his inability to discover the riddle to which the answer is contained in the words, "The one rode a horse and the other rode a dendron.

Meanwhile, his eyes having turned towards the sea, his brow is suddenly overclouded.

About this time also the sky, which had hitherto been tolerably clear, began to be overclouded.

For an hour perhaps Mr. Taynton delved at these problems, and at the end even it did not seem as if he had solved them satisfactorily, for when he went out of his house, as he did at the end of this time to get a little breeze if such was obtainable, his face was still shadowed and overclouded.

Overclouded too was the sky, and as he stepped out into the street from his garden-room the hot air struck him like a buffet; and in his troubled and apprehensive mood it felt as if some hot hand warned him by a blow not to venture out of his house.

Then the sky was full of varietyhere clear and ardent, there dulled and overclouded.

A beautiful evening encouraged our hopes, we slept upon deck by moonlight; but at midnight the sky was overclouded, the wind rose, the sea swelled, the frigate began to be shaken.

The facts were altered and added to by tradition year after year; so that the two old frontier warriors already stand in that misty group of heroes whose rightful title to fame has been partly overclouded by the haze of their mythical glories and achievements.

It was a chilly and overclouded night, and by the gleams of struggling moonlight, he saw the whole buildings standing out black in the night air.

As Trenta proceeds, Marescotti's brow is overclouded with thoughta haggard expression now spreads over his features.