Overhanging

Examples

• And from the safety of his overhanging limb the ape-child sent back the fearsome answer of his kind. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Similarly, the soil is formed from the overhanging mountains; it is washed as sediment into the sea; it is elevated, after consolidation, into the overhanging mountains. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• A few minutes later our driver pulled up at a neat little red-brick villa with overhanging eaves which stood by the road. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Even in that direction, owing to the overhanging blades of corn, the view was not extensive. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• You see those overhanging rocks up there? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• They all three hurried to the vacated public room, and passed by one of the windows into the wooden verandah overhanging the river. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Let him take care also that he avoid in the darkness the drippings from the overhanging eaves or windows, and falling upon the slippery steps of the dim doorway he may be about to enter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Bayous Baxter and Macon are narrow and tortuous, and the banks are covered with dense forests overhanging the channel. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• One night, Madame Rigaud and myself were walking amicably--I may say like lovers--on a height overhanging the sea. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The three went on, and Young Jerry went on, until the three stopped under a bank overhanging the road. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It was also politic, as leaving you with something overhanging you, to expect me again with a little anxiety on a day not named. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Now she was beneath the overhanging limbs and close above her crouched Tarzan, waiting the outcome of the race. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• It is a pond about one hundred feet square and four feet deep, with a stream of water trickling into it from under an overhanging ledge of rocks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Captain Lennox and another lately married officer shared a villa, high up on the beautiful precipitous rocks overhanging the sea. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The heavy overhanging timber retarded progress very much, as did also the short turns in so narrow a stream. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A yellow overhanging plaster-fronted house at which he stopped was quiet too. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• On the left of the spectator lay the ruined wall, broken in many places, and in some, overhanging the narrow beach below in rude and heavy masses. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• On the left was a large, deep fireplace, with a massive, overhanging oak mantelpiece. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But her favourite station was the balcony of her own room, overhanging the canal, with other balconies below, and none above. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If the worst comes to the worst, we can blast those overhanging rocks yonder with dynamite, and thus close up the pass entirely. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Who could arrest a creature capable of scaling the overhanging sides of Mont Salêve? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

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