Literature is the spiritual side of school effort, the uplands of thought, where gushing springs well from the roots and shade of overarching trees.
Hard beneath the church we plunge into a woodland path, and follow the meanderings of a prattling brook which hurries along, beneath the cool shade of overarching trees, to the lake-like river that skirts the broad demesne of Stackpole Court.
Plenty cocoa-nuts," she said, pointing with her pencil to the overarching trees.
On the margin of this circus there is invariably a projecting branch, or overarching root a few feet above the ground, on which the female takes her place to watch the exhibition.
Where the walk was not shaded by overarching maple trees the heat beat up from the plank sidewalks in appreciable gusts.
Right in under the lava bed there was visible a wide, overarching cavity extending some twenty or thirty feet back and at the far end of this lay a deep natural rock-cistern full of clear dark water.
He drew a deep breath as he turned his eyes from the black Lava Beds around, and looked at the distant hills, dotted over with dark pinon, shining in the sunlight far away, and then up at the great overarching vault of blue above.
This wicket opened directly on a path that wound through a plantation of yews interspersed with tall beeches and elms whose overarching tops intensified even in wintry leaflessness the prevalent gloom.
The dense forest growth overarching the road, shut out the starlight and we were unable to see six feet in our front.
The path is narrow and the overarching trees shut out every ray of starlight.
The uniform structure of the rock, however, prevents any unequal disintegration, and thus the overarching sheet of water covers a nearly perpendicular wall, the base of which is washed by the waters of the lower river.
It was a narrow bridle path, a mere tunnel hewn out of solid rock and overarching foliage.
Inside the gate we see a grassy plain with sandy patches; here and there are deep open ditches for drainage; and avenues stretch off in several directions, bounded by rows of great overarching trees.
After the passing of the procession, we drove through a portion of the Potsdamer Strasse where the lamps were rather infrequent and the overarching branches of the trees shut out the starlight from the handsome street.
On the one hand, a living scene bounded by the distant wolds; on the other, a desert, sea and shore alike solitary, bounded only by the overarching sky.
The first time we were asked to breakfast at his house, the Altenburg, we were shown into the garden, where, in a saloon formed by overarching trees, the dejeuner was set out.
The pyramids Of the tall cedar overarching frame Most solemn domes within, and far below, Like clouds suspended in an emerald sky, The ash and the acacia floating hang Tremulous and pale.
For a short distance near Chobham village the little Hale Bourne, into which the Windle Brook has here grown, runs beside it, dark and full, but almost invisible under its overarching alders and dog-roses.
I found the street and number in a drug-store directory, and strolled on and on under the deep shadows of the overarching trees, losing myself once or twice, but after some inquiry, I was soon piloted to the place and rang the bell.
The evening hours lengthened out while our chat went on, until I had to retrace my steps once more under the overarching trees to the "Lucania," after promising that I should dine with the family on the coming Sunday.
Here Hercules wrestled with Antaeus, and Atlas sustained, with weary shoulders, the overarching sky.
The whole complex system of the Law of Nations, overarching all the Christian nations, has but one distinct object,--the administration of justice between nations.
Ever the moral idea is the motive of his plays, the one overarching idea of our universe: man's duty to himself, man's duty to his neighbour!
Self-realization through self-surrender is the fundamental organ-tone of the masterly, overarching epic.
It possesses large ears and heavy overarching brows; its thumb and great toe are more like those of man, though its foot is still practically a hand.
One spot in the glimmering shade of an overarching oak is shown as his favorite resort.
They rode at a rapid pace through the long avenues, under magnificent overarching trees, and over fields and meadows.
Hence we formed our camp here, conveyed our traps under overarching rocks, where they were protected against storm and rain, and hunted for some days in the neighbourhood, in order to provide those who remained behind with food for some time.
They dashed by hundreds impetuously from the high bank into the deep, rapid stream, on either side of the ford, and drifted with it into the dark overarching wood.
In half-an-hour we reached some large springs which gushed out of a rock and flowed in a south-eastern direction through a very narrow gorge covered with bushes, dry wood, and overarching cedars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overarching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
