And in the morning, one will arise as fresh as a lark and look at the window, and see the fields
overlaid with hoarfrost, and fine icicles hanging from the naked branches, and the pond covered over with ice as thin as paper, and a white steam rising from the surface, and birds flying overhead with cheerful cries.
Natasha's grief began to be
overlaid by the impressions of daily life, it ceased to press so painfully on her heart, it gradually faded into the past, and she began to recover physically.
He could not talk very well, because his opponent's sword had cut his under-lip in two, and then the surgeon had sewed it together and
overlaid it with a profusion of white plaster patches; neither could he eat easily, still he contrived to accomplish a slow and troublesome luncheon while the last duel was preparing.
It was as yet too early in the year for much colour to appear in the gardens and foliage; the so-called spring was but winter
overlaid with a thin coat of greenness, and it was of a parcel with his expectations.
Through the varnish of politeness which
overlaid his manner, there rose to the surface the underlying insolence, hidden, on all ordinary occasions, from all human eyes.