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Superincumbent.

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Then she felt a hand trying to remove her superincumbent head-gear.
Under the Waves: Diving in Deep Waters
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This element is the constantly recurring lifting of the superincumbent weight of the machine.
Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 / A ...
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Close by, another shaft led edgeways up into the superincumbent shoulder of the hill.
The Silverado Squatters
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Under this superincumbent weight I had long struggled to stand.
Rattlin the Reefer
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Which impregnation with manganese has probably been received from the decomposition of superincumbent vegetable matters.
The Botanic Garden / A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of...
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Are storms the effect of this unequal charge of the different superincumbent strata of air?
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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The inferior heaven is called the firmament, because it separates the superincumbent waters from the waters below.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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For a time some charm was imparted by his instructing me to adopt a superincumbent face-to-face embrace.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 / Sexual Inversion
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The foundations of the building are continually giving way, and the lower tiers crumbling under the superincumbent weight.
Russia
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It bulged slightly downwards, in a flattened arch, as if some superincumbent weight were pressing hard upon it.
What's Bred in the Bone
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A calcareous sedimentary deposit, with recent shells, altered by the contact of superincumbent lava, its horizontality and extent.
Volcanic Islands
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The superincumbent gloom is dispersed.
Zenobia; or, the Fall of Palmyra
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Her eight Osiride figures, standing against as many square pillars, appear to support the weight of the superincumbent rock.
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume...
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The surface of the sea steams like a lime-kiln, caused by the water being still warmer than the superincumbent atmosphere.
The Illustrated London Reading Book
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It was accidentally discovered here, and has not been meddled with, further than by removing the superincumbent earth and rubbish.
Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
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I believe that there are other superincumbent crystalline strata and submarine lavas, but I had not time to examine them.
Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete
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Superincumbent through the time