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superincumbent

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Duplicates of each were ranged in opposition, until the table groaned with its superincumbent weight.

NEWTON FORSTERCAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT

A banded column, such as we see in Early English Gothic, looks weak and incapable of supporting the superincumbent weight.

Below us slept the waters of the bay, reflecting, in their crystal depths, the superincumbent mountains and overarching sky.

An idea may thus be gained of the very considerable amount of superincumbent materials.

PREHISTORIC MANW. L. H. DUCKWORTH

Secondly, the superincumbent strata can be assigned to one period only of the archaeological series, viz.

PREHISTORIC MANW. L. H. DUCKWORTH

No fewer than eleven distinct horizons have been recognised in the superincumbent strata.

PREHISTORIC MANW. L. H. DUCKWORTH

Now, the crumbling away of the superincumbent cliffs gives continual trouble to the road.

Sometimes the pressure on the superincumbent crust is so great as to cause an upheaval or disturbance of the valley.

No water can percolate athwart it, and consequently where it is, there the superincumbent soil is resolved into a quagmire.

A BOOK OF GHOSTSSABINE BARING-GOULD

We enter upon the glacier; black chasms yawn here and there through the superincumbent snow, but there is no real difficulty.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985