The houses were not overhung by their cloud of smoke, and they were spread out endlessly, yet the sun shone so brightly, with such a fierce light, that there was even something like the purity of one of nature's own grand spectacles.
There was a most lively combination at the head of the vale of the yellow autumnal hills wrapped in sunshine, and overhung with partial mists, the green and yellow trees, and the distant snow-topped mountains.
It rises near at hand in a marsh, amid mighty tufts of reeds and odorous flowers, and the liquid bubbles up in pools of crystalline transparency--deep and perfidious cauldrons overhung by the trembling soil on which you stand.
The track crawls in and out of valleys, mounts upwards to heights of sun-scorched bracken and cistus, descends once more into dewy glades hemmed in by precipices and overhung by drooping fernery.
At the bottom runs a sluggish stream so overhung by trees as scarcely to be seen from above.
The fall is between sixty and seventy feet; the glen into which the water comes leaping, and foaming, and flashing is wild and rocky, and overhung with richest foliage.
It was apparently all built on the land, but it so overhung the lake at one side that the water ever found access, and there was abundance of room for the beavers to swim out or in whenever they desired.
She had just strength and wits enough left to move a short way off it and collapse into a long dry rill, overhung with bushes.
The Canton Fleet Marshall walked openly toward the three broad cave entrances held by the Laurians, tucked in and overhung with shadow at the base of a dry, tawny ridge several thousand feet high, crowned with foliage.
He suddenly felt exposed there, and sought shelter from the wraiths above among the overhung shadows of the left-hand wall.
There was a great accumulation of snow on the Bridge; and such enormous accumulations of snow overhung them from protecting masses of rock, that they might have been making their way through a stormy sky of white clouds.
Beyond this place, the hills were rough and high, and almost overhung the river.
In places, the branches of the trees, reaching out to the sun, overhung the wall and hid it in black shadows.
They stared at the Essex in open-mouthed amaze, and fired volleys of questions at us as we overhung the rail, knowing full well that we could get the same news from these men as was being dealt out in the cabin to our commander.
He took up his position in a retired valley behind Mount Tifata, which overhung Capua.
The side of these buildings which overhung the brook, was partly founded on a steep and precipitous rock; for the place had been occasionally turned to military purposes, and had been taken with great slaughter during Montrose's wars.
This done, they climbed on board again, and were soon in the mouth of a dark river, almost overhungby great trees.
The Arab has blocked the mouth by blasting a mass of rock whichoverhung the river.
Having reached the garden, I sat myself to rest on a stone seat, set against a wall overhung by a large tree.
The latter overhung by a blue cloud of smoke, into which the forked flames leaped and danced.
Good or bad, I was determined to see him, and I soon caught sight of the line of tents, cresting the hills that overhung the defile where Hannibal caught the Romans.
XXIII On the far shore there rose a rock; below Scooped by the breaker's beating frequently: The cliff was hollowed underneath, in show Of arch, andoverhung the foaming sea.
Thither directing aye his course outright, Where the descending sun his visage hides, He reached a path upon the rugged steep, Which overhung a valley dark and deep.
Its simple lines and curves call up I know not what pictures of flowering hedgerows; a little black blot means a village of stone cottages, very likely overhung with ivy and climbed upon with roses.
There was a milestone which I recognised just where the first tree overhung the road; there was a white gate in the hedge some twenty paces this side of the milestone.
The rooms on the ground floor, overhung by a colonnade, were in single file with an ell on the north front at the west end.
The cliff on which the many-towered old castle stood almost overhung the blue waters of the Rhine, which here run between rocks of stupendous height.
A few miles over a road overhung by trees and closely following the brawling Dee brings us in sight of Balmoral.
Our road keeps to the north of the river and is often overhung by rocky walls, while far above we catch glimpses of ivy-clad ruins surmounting the beetling crags.
Her forehead bowed out and overhung her nose, which endeavoured to stretch out to some decent length, but was unfortunately foiled by the want of a bridge.
From the steeple or belfry of this church dangled a rope, probably for the convenience of the ringers, which overhung the porch, and descended to within a few feet of the ground.
I had long contemplated Fort St. Elmo, high on the crest of the mountain which overhung Naples, as one of the objects which I was bound to visit.
He had now gained the extremity of the bridge, with Ellen Halloway and Wacousta close in his rear, when suddenly the heads of many men were once more distinguishable, even in the shadow of the arch that overhung the sands of the river.
The verandah was a very important feature of the house, thickly overhung as it was with palms, bananas, and other tropical verdure.
It was a fair-sized house, with a heavy thatched roof that overhung the walls like the crown of a mushroom.
Our walks were perilous sometimes, the paths which almost overhung the deep foaming sea being slippery with the sheddings of the pines.
My studio had a balcony whichoverhung the moat and drawbridge.
To the east of Kinchinjhow were the Cholamoo lakes, with the rugged mass of Donkia stretching in cliffs of ice and snow continuously southwards to forked Donkia, which overhung Momay Samdong.
The houses were often raised on platforms, and some had balconies in front, which overhungthe cottage below.
The lowest ladder was approached by a pathway leading to a rickety wooden platform which overhung a deep gorge.
