superincumbent

Example Sentences

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As the meal progressed, the superincumbent earth weighed less heavily on their souls.

From Froth by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

But grasping is not so easy; or rather it is not so easy to pull a fish up through two feet of superincumbent water which opposes the quick passage of the arm.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard

But Sir Gilbert Scott thought that if a bit of the superincumbent stone was raised, some portion of the more ancient monument might exist beneath.

From The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History by Kingsley, Rose Georgina

Notwithstanding the care taken to shore them up, the roofs of the abandoned quarries still give way occasionally under the superincumbent weight.

From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William

With kites, however, the possibility of making frequent and nearly vertical ascents and descents permits observations to be obtained almost simultaneously in superincumbent strata of air.

From Sounding the Ocean of Air by Rotch, A. Lawrence