Hence, when the bed that overlies the mud-cracks is removed, we find a cast of these projecting from its under surface, or frequently the cast remains in its mould, and forms a series of curious ridges ramifying over the whole surface of the old mud-flat.
"Geology"
James Geikie
She was forty when they began to come, and an ashen gray was creeping over the reddish heaps of her hair, like the pallor that overlies the crimson of the autumnal oak.
"The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
To begin with the exit from Winchester: there in Jewry Street a Roman road overlies the older British way, not indeed exactly, but roughly, certainly as far as King's Worthy, whence it still shoots forth straight as an arrow's flight over hill over dale to Silchester.
"England of My Heart--Spring"
Edward Hutton