Crossword-Solution: OVERFLYING 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Praise be to him whose plenty sends both this And all things else our mortal bodies need; Nor scorn we this poor feeding, nor the state We now are in, for what is it on earth, Nay, under heaven, continues at a stay? Ebbs not the sea, when it hath overflown? Follows not darkness when the day is gone? And see we not sometime the eye of heaven Dimmed with overflying clouds: there’s not that work Of careful nature, or of cunning art, (How strong, how beauteous, or how rich it be) But falls in time to ruin.

One his shield Struck but pierced not, impeded by the gold, Gift of a God; the other as it flew200 Grazed at his right elbow; sprang the sable blood; But, overflying him, the spear in earth Stood planted deep, still hungering for the prey.

But the word 'petalos' is connected in Greek with another word, meaning, to fly,--so that you may think of a bird as spreading its petals to the wind; and with another, signifying Fate in its pursuing flight, the overtaking thing, or overflying Fate.

For instance, the other day, when you had someone's gun in your hands, you deliberately fired at an overflying woodpecker to test your skill.

One his shield Struck but pierced not, impeded by the gold, Gift of a God; the other as it flew Grazed his right elbow; sprang the sable blood; But, overflying him, the spear in earth Stood planted deep, still hung'ring for the prey.