Overarch

Old chestnut trees overarch it from the terraces, and its floor, thick with their dried, toasty leaves, is littered with the hedgehog shells of chestnuts. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

It points to truths that overarch all our narrow perspectives. ❋ Unknown (2007)

To overarch a territory filled with warring religious wackos who have for ❋ Unknown (2007)

Therefore, it must be the union of the past state with some supposition or set of suppositions that overarch both the past and the present. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Dollington, which was the old London road from Gylingden, was pacing backward and forward under the towering files of beech that overarch it at that point. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Indeed, the underlying philosophy of executive partner programs is that top-manager/key-account relationships should be very long term and overarch any particular job responsibility. ❋ NOEL CAPON (2001)

He takes a moment to sigh, as if pushing hot air out of himself, then walks the last few dozen steps to where the trees overarch her front yard, stepping into the shadows as if he were sliding into a cool pool of water in the jungle. ❋ Barnes, John, 1957- (1994)

The aorta may bifurcate almost as high up as where the pillars of the diaphragm overarch it, or as low down as the fifth lumbar vertebra. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

The thoracic aorta descends along the left side of the spine, as far as the last dorsal vertebra, at which situation the pillars of the diaphragm overarch the vessel. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

God's laws are become a greatest-happiness principle, a parliamentary expediency; the heavens overarch us only as an astronomical timekeeper: a butt for Herschel telescopes to shoot science at, to shoot sentimentalities at: -- in our and old Jonson's dialect, man has lost the _soul_ out of him; and now, after the due period, begins to find the want of it! ❋ Various (N/A)

The ordered masses of architecture became august, the spaces between them immense, and the black sky faintly strewn with stars seemed to overarch an enchanted city. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The dim light from the vast and empty overarch of sky, powdered with a wonder of stars, showed him the vague outline of her face. ❋ George Allan England (1906)

They overarch and envelop, and from them there is no escape. ❋ Unknown (1902)

Nature is not closed in by the designed overarch of an eventually-to-be-completed plan. ❋ Francis Edward Younghusband (1902)

The continents are transformed into the seas that encircle them; the seas rise into the skies that overarch them; the skies mingle with the earth, and send back from the uplifted faces of flowers greetings to the stars they have deserted. ❋ Hamilton Wright Mabie (1880)