Winds and seismic and tectonic disruptions have left their mark in tortuous folds and uplifts, deep gashes, and conical incrustations that hark back far before the age of human folly. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Every sea breached clean over the wreck, washing away the salt incrustations from their bodies and depositing fresh incrustations. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Stripped of consumerist and materialist incrustations, Christmas can thus become an occasion to welcome, as a personal gift, the message of hope that emanates from the mystery of the birth of Christ. ❋ Papabear (2008)
The Jesuit Kircher describes it as a table of copper overlaid with black enamel and silver incrustations. ❋ Jan (2008)
Yet Plato has acknowledged that the soul may be so overgrown by the incrustations of earth as to lose her original form; and in the Timaeus he recognizes more strongly than in the Republic the influence which the body has over the mind, denying even the voluntariness of human actions, on the ground that they proceed from physical states (Tim.). ❋ Unknown (2006)
From Heidegger she took the idea of a deconstructive reading of the Western philosophical tradition, one that seeks to uncover the original meaning of our categories and to liberate them from the distorting incrustations of tradition. ❋ D'Entreves, Maurizio Passerin (2006)
It is never, I believe, seen in perfection, except over such saline incrustations. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A thick belt of mopane-trees (a ‘Bauhinia’) hides this salt-pan, which is twenty miles in circumference, entirely from the view of a person coming from the southeast; and, at the time the pan burst upon our view, the setting sun was casting a beautiful blue haze over the white incrustations, making the whole look exactly like a lake. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerals. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But like a precious shrub which is not only coloured with autumn tints but certain leaves of which are protected by bandages of wadding or incrustations of plaster, M. de Charlus received from these few white hairs at his crest only a further variegation added to those of his face. ❋ Unknown (2003)
His alphabet lent itself to the purpose, and hence probably arose that almost inconceivable variety of lace-like fretwork, of incrustations, of Arabesques, and of geometric flowers, in which his eye delights to lose itself. 6 ❋ Unknown (2003)
America, wherever the climate is moderately dry, these incrustations occur; but I have nowhere seen them so abundant as near Bahia Blanca. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, ice incrustations ... he got through them all. ❋ Myers, Howard L (2003)
As her workmen continued the conservation of the brick and mortared rubble walls in the large urban villa, Roman Baths, and Lower Agora (cistern and Severan nymphaeum), conservator Paola Pesaresi (Milano) focused on the removal of the incrustations on the mosaic floors on the upper floor of the palatial mansion in the Domestic Area. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Full in this rapid wake, and many fathoms in the rear, swam a huge, humped old bull, which by his comparatively slow progress, as well as by the unusual yellowish incrustations over-growing him, seemed afflicted with the jaundice, or some other infirmity. ❋ Unknown (2002)
- Did you [see how] [Sally] incrusted herself in their conversation?
- [Classic] Sally ❋ StreetSlayer (2017)
Dude eat so much [greek yogurt] yesterday, he was [discovered] on the [sofa] in his very own “Cum-Incrusted-Caccoon” ❋ IvyFayeStarr (2021)
