Overhead

Examples

• As the golden swim of light overhead died out, the moon gained brightness, and seemed to begin to smile forth her ascendancy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We had scarcely reached the edge of the timber when I heard the flutter of wings overhead, and in an instant I saw two or three turkeys flying away. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I have never seen him, for he has always kept his room overhead, since I have known Clara. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Flat, overhead stationary cards are also used through which the cotton is carried. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• There is also another type of monorail of overhead construction, the wheels running on the rail from which the car hangs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The balls commenced to whistle very thick overhead, cutting the limbs of the chaparral right and left. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• From time to time I heard loud voices in the parlour overhead, and occasionally a violent tumbling about of the furniture. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Sometimes, he gets up in the dead of the night, and will be heard, by us overhead there, walking up and down, walking up and down, in his room. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The street conductors were of the overhead pole-line construction, and were installed by the construction company that had been organized by Edison to build and equip central stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Golz knew that once they had passed overhead and on, the bombs would fall, looking like porpoises in the air as they tumbled. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then the plane was overhead, its shadows passing over the open glade, the throbbing reaching its maximum of portent. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The animals are driven into a catching pen at 1, where they are strung up by one leg, and secured to a traveling pulley on an overhead rail. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We should only be in the way of the manoeuvres that the gallant fellows are performing overhead. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I saw her through a space in the boughs overhead. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Just then Robert Jordan heard the plane high overhead. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Typist: Wolfgang