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Become wearisome
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pall
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Word definitions for pall in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a pall of smoke (= a thick cloud of smoke hanging over something ) ▪ A thick pall of smoke hung over Cape Town. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ For Sasha, the celebrity lifestyle was beginning to pall . EXAMPLES FROM ...
Usage examples of pall.
Covering him from the waist down, they had laid a pall of Haldane crimson worked with the royal arms, supple with silken embroidery and applique, spilling off the sides and end of the bier and over the shoulders of the knights at that end.
Night has drawn her jewelled pall And through the branches twinkling fireflies trace Their mimic constellations, if it fall That one should see the moon rise through the lace Of blossomy boughs above the garden wall, That surely would he take great ill thereof And famish in a fit of unexpressive love.
He admired her, for she was very beautiful, but he was a dandy, and her brusqueries palled on him after a time.
The general type of mirage was not unlike some of the wilder forms observed and drawn by the arctic whaler Scoresby in 1820, but at this time and place, with those dark, unknown mountain peaks soaring stupendously ahead, that anomalous elder-world discovery in our minds, and the pall of probable disaster enveloping the greater part of our expedition, we all seemed to find in it a taint of latent malignity and infinitely evil portent.
But if it palled for me, for -fory and Melodic, it worked its charm on Cindy, who adored her room, her fancy French furniture, her ultra feminine bath with its pink decor enhanced with gold and mossy pale green.
It overvaulted two immense marble platforms, alongside two sets of tracks, one incoming, one outgoing, and that area of the station looked neither new nor proud: already begrimed with soot and shadowed by a permanent pall of smoke hanging under the girdered glass roof.
Already she could feel her percipience fading, eroded by the tainted pall which overhung the Land.
Pall Mall drooping from his lip at an impossible angle, leaving ashes behind him like a trail of bread crumbs, showing his young son how to reglaze a window.
The vast columns rose on every side of him, glittering with silvern damp, and the curtain of fungi stirred overhead like a black pall.
The oppressive pall of fear that had smothered the people was dissolved at last.
It delights too much in comfortable solfeggios, in linked sweetness long drawn out, which soon palls on the senses.
Here on the outskirts of the city pall, it was possible to see three or four stars as he followed Christine Stavers and Carmila toward the main temperature lock.
The old controversies have passed away, or they have subsided, and have been covered up by one dark pall of somber hue, which increases with every passing year.
That moment alone, out in the open, with the strange, windy pall of night--all-enveloping, with the flares, like sheet-lightning, along the horizon, with a rumble here and a roar there, with whistling fiends riding the blackness above, with a series of popping, impelling reports seemingly close in front--that drove home to Kurt Dorn a cruel and present and unescapable reality.
Anna returned from the tent with the desired item, the man was lighting an unfiltered Pall Mall.