Eclipsed

Examples

• Clym, the eclipsed moonlight shines upon your face with a strange foreign colour, and shows its shape as if it were cut out in gold. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They stood silently looking upon Eustacia, who, as she lay there still in death, eclipsed all her living phases. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• She was twice as handsome as Becky, but the brilliancy of the latter had quite eclipsed her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Hence during a lunar eclipse the moon first enters the penumbra, then is totally eclipsed by the umbra, then emerges through the penumbra again. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He seemed the favourite child of fortune, and his untimely loss eclipsed the world, and shewed forth the remnant of mankind with diminished lustre. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Amy's dainty pen-and-ink work entirely eclipsed May's painted vases--that was one thorn. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Hosts of stars are visible to-night, though their brilliancy is eclipsed by the splendour of the moon. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She pointed towards the half-eclipsed moon. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• But Madame was before me; she had stepped out suddenly; she seemed to magnify her proportions and amplify her drapery; she eclipsed me; I was hid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The spirit of gaiety was eclipsed; the music ceased; the young people left their occupations and gathered together. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The inventive genius of this century in the field of optics has not eclipsed the telescope and microscope of former ages. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the gossips away from this four-year-old drama. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Editor: Susanna