Overfall

But her laugh stuck in her throat, for at that moment a shadow overfell the two houses

1 of these ladies was strikingly handsome, with long black hair which overfell her face as she worked.

The troll overfell him. A moment he lay under that mass and could not breathe.

But you, divine one, you, resounding to the end, when the swarm of rejected Maenads overfell him, you sounded over their screams with order; o beautiful one, out of the destroyers arose your uplifting play.

When the tidal surge hits Britain, one arm goes up the west coast and the other goes through the English Channel. The slight time delay in their meeting cause one to overfall the other at certain points in Orkney.

From thence King Hakon proceeded up the Dovrefield; but as he was going over the mountains he road all day after a ptarmigan, which flew up beside him , and in this chase a sickness overfell him, which ended in his death ; and he died on the mountains.

Such a blankness overfell his face!

All three passages refer to the disaster that overfell Sennacherib's host and to nothing else.

Then a possessive silence overfell the house, and I was unable to fall to sleep again.

A faintness overfell me.

But in the fall of 1933 deep shadows from Cuba overfell the Montevideo Foreign Ministers Conference, where Secretary Hull hoped to restart his trade program after having been stalled at London.

For example, the Qur'an says, "Say nothing will overfall us save what Allah has written for us."

He will not always have joy; hours of doubt will overfall him; his mistakes and weaknesses will not abandon him, He will be in the danger of increasing the multitude of the lukewarm.

I had arrived at this conclusion, and was meditating on my possible conduct under the circumstances, as I groped my way gingerly enough in the dark shadow of a long crumbling wall, where the ivy clustered and overfell, when round a slight bend, obscured by straggling bushes , I came upon the most unexpected and picturesque sight imaginable – that of a gipsy camp.

A dam fitted between the sixth control group and the first insected group caused the water to overfall into the lower series and thereby prevented upstream movement of infective cysts.

There is provision for excess water to overfall from the canal to the River Liffey below and, in times of water shortage, the process may be reversed using temporary pumping facilities.

Then back-toppling, crashing back – a dead weight flung out to wrack, Horse and riders overfell.

But that's OK, I mean one is apt to overfall today because the work is so crucial.

And accordingly the said Indian went into his canoe at the mouth of the Great Bay , and when he was about a rod off the boat, the said John Keniston took up my gun and shot at him , and immediately after the canoe overfell and the Indian swimm'd towards the shore — and about a quarter of a mile further up the Bay, the other Indian which before had left the boat came off to them and inquired after his brother;

An unusually large breaker for so mild a surf curled overhead, and he climbed out on her again, sinking both of them under as the wave crest overfell and smashed down.