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overhead

preposition C2
  1. Above.
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He saw overhead a black and tempestuous sky, across which the wind was driving clouds that occasionally suffered a twinkling star to appear; before him was the vast expanse of waters, sombre and terrible, whose waves foamed and roared as if before the approach of a storm.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 221 · C1
And high overhead and all moving about,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 6 · C1
With the black night overhead.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 13 · C1
The little sparrows overhead,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 15 · C1

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