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A war-cloud over-shadowed the two great divisions of the yellow race. He must wait to see how matters developed, but he would not expose Iris to the insidious treachery of a Chinese spring. So, with tears, they separated. She was confided to the personal charge of Captain Ross. At each point of call the company's agents would be solicitous for her welfare.
The upper part of his form, notwithstanding the season required no such defence, was shrouded in a large great-coat, belted over his under habiliments, and crested with a huge cowl of the same stuff, which, when drawn over the head and hat, completely over-shadowed both, and being buttoned beneath the chin, was called a TROT-COZY. His hand grasped a huge jockey-whip, garnished with brass mounting.
But before we had proceeded a rood farther towards the west, we heard a buzz amongst the princes above, and every one, great and small, seized his arms, and proceeded to harness himself as if for battle; and before we had time to espy a place to flee to, the whole air became dark, and the city was more deeply over-shadowed than during an eclipse; the thunder began to roar, and the lightnings to dart forkedly, and a ceaseless shower of mortal arrows, was directed from the gates below, against the catholic church; and unless every one had had a shield in his hand to receive the fiery darts, and unless the foundation stone had been too strong for any thing to make an impression upon it, you would have seen the whole in conflagration.
The few men gathered in council were surrounded, over-shadowed, and dwarfed by monumental strength and solemnity. Behind a solid panel of carved cedar, which hedged the royal dais, stood Meneptah. Above his head were the intricate drapings of a canopy of gold tissue. On a level with his eyes, at his side, was the single torch. His vision, like his father's, was defective.
"The Trembling Fawn!" repeated William, with emphasis, in a mysterious and abstracted manner. Presently he stood up and intently regarded the dim path over-shadowed by the luxuriant foliage that Joe had so recently traversed, and an animated smile played upon his lips, and dark, clear eyes sparkled with a thrill of ecstasy.
This conversation was taking place in Renine's flat on the Boulevard Haussmann, to which Hortense had brought her friend Genevieve Aymard, a slender, pretty little creature with a face over-shadowed by an expression of the greatest melancholy. "Renine will be successful, take my word for it, Genevieve. You will, Renine, won't you?" "Please tell me the rest of the story, mademoiselle," he said.
"Gone! all of them." "Too bad! They were such good fellows!" And our friends smiled, occupied but with the thought of the living present. Paris, their friends, their families, their professions, all seemed to be forgotten, or completely over-shadowed by the habitual daily routine of marches and halts, duties and drudgery. They were no longer a great painter and a brilliant barrister.
Wake up! You are dreaming!" said Rule, laying his hand on the woman's shoulder and gently shaking her. "Oh, what is this? Rule! What is it?" "You have been dreaming, Mother Scythia." "Have I?" said the woman, putting her hands to her forehead and stroking away the raven locks that over-shadowed it. And gradually she recovered from her trance and returned to her normal condition.
The spot where I lay was over-shadowed by the dense foliage of a tree which was unlike anything that I had ever seen, and seemed like some exaggerated grass; at our feet a brook ran murmuring to the shore; in the air and all around were innumerable birds. The situation in which I found myself seemed inexpressibly sweet, and all the more so from the gentle face of Almah.
I now became aware that something interposed between the page and the light the page was over-shadowed: I looked up, and I saw what I shall find it very difficult, perhaps impossible, to describe. It was a Darkness shaping itself forth from the air in very undefined outline.
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