What is "overhanging"

Usage examples of "overhanging".

Making the craft fast to an overhanging bough, the two made their way into the jungle, presently coming upon some of the apes feeding upon fruit a little beyond the reeds where the buffalo had fallen.

On a shelf of smooth stone overhanging a deep pool in the hollow of an oak coppice a boy of about sixteen lay asprawl, drying his wet brown limbs luxuriously in the sun.

But not along a narrow track with the ancient oaks overhanging it, perfect shelter for a Belgic horde.

Then, jest as they begun to get their range and started trimming us clost, we swerved aside and thundered in under the overhanging rock.

A rawhide noose, attached to the downbent limb of an overhanging tree, had been buried in the trail along which he had been passing and he had struck the trigger--that was the whole story.

I think I know what has done it: Sebastian gave such a frightful description of the mountain, of how the rocks were so overhanging and dangerous that at any minute you might fall into a crevasse, and how it was such steep climbing that you feared at every step to go slipping to the bottom, and that goats alone could make their way up without fear of being killed.

Blood Koli, turned a corner into a narrow side-street sheltered by overhanging trees, and almost walked into Tane, coming the other way with a woman at his side.

Harry simply stood and watched his rescuer push the canoe into the water, beneath an overhanging clump of moosewood and pine trees.

Ayla smile, with their long overhanging noses and peculiar gait, which did not hinder their speed, she noted.

The Atlas, his head totally encased in a roughhewn, overhanging clifflike boulder held up by his gigantic arms, was pulsatingly alive, feeling intensely the bulk of the world he held.

As Longarm headed up the plank walk in the deep shade of the overhanging snowsheds, a few of the establishments he passed were lit up.

Clinging to her spinsterish persona like a drowning woman clutching at an overhanging branch, she turned and faced him.

Sailors rowed In awe through many a new and fearful jag Of overhanging rock, through which there flowed The foam of streams that cannot make abode.

He returned his concentration to the climb, pushing through overhanging branches bearded with sweetberry vines and holding them politely back for Leia, Han, and finally Chewbacca to follow.

In the lowest branches of an overhanging tree there bobbed little woolen dolls, little woolen balls, and heads of garlic, all looking weatherworn and drab.