superficies

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He’s the king of superficies: you fall in love with his Puppy immediately, involuntarily, unironically.

From The Guardian • Jul. 3, 2014

“You cannot stop the superficies of objects from evaporation,” he said.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

In this instance 200 degrees of the horizon were more elevated than the place attacked, while the destruction proves that the superficies invited no accumulation here.

From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, Richard

"Without form," intelligible enough as a metaphor, if taken literally, is absurd; for a material thing existing in space must have a superficies, and if it has a superficies it has a form.

From Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.

He is the mask without the face, and there isn't in his total superficies a tiny point of vantage for the newspaper to flap his wings on.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry