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He looked round, twinkling, for a laugh to follow what he meant for a joke; and the obsequious bandsmen uttered a sniggering kind of concreted grin, followed instantly by a loud-toned sonorous _Phoomp_! from the huge bell-mouth of the contra-bass.

The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne George Manville Fenn 1870

Uruguay: La Posada del Faro, Cabo PolonioSavvy travellers bypass Uruguay's most famous resort – the over-hyped, over-concreted Punta del Este – and head further up the coast to Cabo Polonio, an isolated village situated on its own peninsula.

South America: Perfect posadas Vicky Baker 2010

Police have said the site will be sealed off by roadblocks from today, but the fight was still going on yesterday, with council and Travellers embroiled in a new war of words over who first concreted over the site where some of the families have been for the past decade.

Battle lines drawn as Dale farm travellers brace for eviction face-off 2011

"The dunes which advanced to replace lost sand are being concreted over by the clubs," said Giorgio Zampetti.

Italy's elite are dismayed by vanishing beaches 2011

Then our local marshland was drained and concreted over to build a housing estate some years ago, and the herons disappeared.

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It is impossible not to think of Ian Botham, who stayed concreted in at No6 even as his career congealed.

Why English cricket needs the six appeal of an Indiana Jones | Barney Ronay 2011

A crowded island, the wrong type of rainfall (frequent deluges) on the wrong type of surface (increasingly concreted) and a Victorian system all conspire to give us less available water per person than Israel.

Can I use water and be green? 2010

After sufficient cooling was achieved in each fifty-foot block, its waterlines were filled with pressurized grout and the slot concreted to the top of that level, like a zipper slowly being pulled closed.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

The president and first lady received the standard VIP tour of the time—a breakneck drive through the concreted diversion Tunnel No. 2, with Walker Young at the wheel.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

"There was no longer land or sea or air but a kind of substance concreted from all of these elements," he wrote, adding that the water now resembled a "sea-lung".

The Future History of the Arctic by Charles Emmerson; After the Ice by Alun Anderson; True North by Gavin Francis 2010