Shadowed
['ʃædo]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Shadow
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Examples
- He stood in front of the fire, his long arms hanging by his sides, his cheeks, stubble-shadowed below the cheekbones, hollow in the firelight. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the seclusion of their monasteries, they speculated on the mysterious powers of Nature, then partially revealed to them, and shadowed forth images of their possible applications. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Our lives, we see with a growing certitude, are fretted and shadowed and spoilt because there is as yet no worldwide law, no certain justice. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As yet, little Dora was quite unconscious of my desperate firmness, otherwise than as my letters darkly shadowed it forth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The Professor conquered, but I cannot say that the laurels of this victory shadowed gracefully his temples. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This immediately roused a poignant pity and allegiance in Gerald's heart, always shadowed by contempt and by unadmitted enmity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Have you shadowed her? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The clerk Gorot has been shadowed all these nine weeks, but without result. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- That unique happiness too was dead, and in its shadowed silent chamber she might vent the passionate grief which she herself wondered at. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Tangey, the commissionnaire, has been shadowed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I perceived, for the first time, the dark suspicion that shadowed my life. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That always used to make you happy, said her mother once, when the desponding fit over-shadowed Jo. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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