Overlaid

Examples

• And yet there were indications there, had they not been overlaid by other details which concealed their true import. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was not temporarily overlaid with the colour; it permeated him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• His countenance was overlaid with legible meanings. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Nature's handiwork never was disguised with such extraordinary artificial carving, as the man had overlaid his countenance with in one moment. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• What was vital was overlaid and hidden by what was irrelevant. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Previously his story was overlaid by monstrous accumulations of legend, and his teaching violently misconceived. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Official Christianity had long overlaid and accustomed itself to ignore those strange teachings of Jesus of Nazareth from which it had arisen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Marvin