This class somewhat overlaps the second; many terms that are frequently confused are parallels, and parallelism is of course a cause of confusion.

There were no natural barriers by which he could protect his flanks; and not only was he certain to be overlapped on either wing by the vast lines of the Persian army, but there was imminent risk of their circling round him, and charging him in the rear, while he advanced against their centre.

The first is of wool, the weight and fineness of which depend on the quality of the pasture and the care bestowed on the flock; the other of hair, that pierces the wool and overlaps it, and is in excess in exact proportion to the badness of the keep and inattention with which the animal is treated.

Yet Dr. Franklin, whose life overlapped Johnson's at both ends, said:-'I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end, requesting only the advantage authors have of correcting in a second edition the faults of its first.

The age has no distinct limits, but overlaps the Elizabethan period on one side, and the Restoration period on the other.

The charters given during colonial times were very loosely drawn, and claims of different colonies and proprietors overlapped each other.

It overlaps the Escape River, and after many devious windings and twistings, flows across the Cape out on to the Gulf shore.

The life of Irenaeus overlapped that of Marcion considerably, and there seems to have been somewhat frequent communication between the Church at Lyons, where he was first presbyter and afterwards bishop, and that of Rome, where Marcion was settled; but Irenaeus [Endnote 206:1], as well as Tertullian and Epiphanius, alludes to the mutilation of St. Luke's Gospel by Marcion as a notorious fact.

The brush on the top of the cliff overlapped the crevice, so that it was quite dark a few feet from the entrance.

A.The sides of the internal furnaces or flues in all boilers should be so constructed that the steam may readily escape from their surfaces, with which view it is expedient to make the bottom of the flue somewhat wider than the top, or slightly conical in the cross section; and the upper plates should always be overlapped by the plates beneath, so that the steam cannot be retained in the overlap, but will escape as soon as it is generated.

That which appears to us as the external world of matter, is nothing but a universal consciousness which overlaps and influences our individual consciousness.

And, except for Jane's own personal friends, these two circles largely overlapped in this case.

It is the distance the valve overlaps the steam ports when in mid position.

It is rarely found as far north as Virginia, where it meets, but scarcely overlaps its sister fern.

Together they shuffled first to the right and then to the left, their feet marking the earth floor in prints that overlapped like scales.

Their head was turned straight for ourselves, while the 95th overlapped them on one side and the 52nd on the other.

If, instead of allowing the decomposed ray of light to pass through a slit, and thus obtain definite bands in the spectrum, the ray was passed through a circular hole, the red and green colors overlapped each other on the screen, forming by their combination the identical orange-yellow color obtained with the primary white light.

The Strategist had a map on his knees, which overlapped his fellow passenger's on either side.

In the galleries, as is obvious, the pictures are at their smallest, their glory pressed back into themselves or overlapped or smudged by the confusing glory of others.

He was a learned man and his learning overlapped my own specialty, so that we had a good deal in common.

Then the Twelfth South Carolina charged, and for a while the pressure upon us was relieved; but the Twelfth charged too far, and, while driving the enemy in its front, was soon overlapped, and flanked.

The hollow of the V ahead, where the hills overlapped against the pale blue, was powdered with a faint brown bloom, soon to be greenan infinity of bursting buds.

Perhaps, then, an emigration from Florida, which may be called, for want of any historical data, that of the Ygneris, covered all the West Indian Islands at a very early period, to be overlapped, in part, by a succeeding emigration of Caribs who were pressed out of Florida by the Appalachians.[H]

A moor stream ran down the coombe, dodging and twisting between the overlaps of the hills, and ended in a fairy waterfall, over which it sprang some thirty feet to alight on a beach of clean-washed boulders.

As the swarthy swarm approached, it spread out until it covered the front of the train and overlapped its flanks, ready to sweep completely around it and fasten upon any point which should seem feebly or timorously defended.