No apology is required for the length of the latter, for though State socialism is only a growth of yesterday, it has already spread everywhere, and if it is not superseding socialism proper, it is certainly Eclipsing it in practical importance, and to some extent even modifying it in character.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The news of this tragical event, therefore, fell like a thunderbolt upon society, Eclipsing every other topic in the newspapers, in conversation, and general interest.
"The New Tenant"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
But there is then produced a peculiar kind of partial eclipse called annular, or ring-shaped, because the moon, although Eclipsing the central parts of the sun, is not large enough to cover the whole of it, but leaves the sun's edge visible as a ring of light, which completely surrounds the moon.
"A Text-Book of Astronomy"
George C. Comstock