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Vau moved sideways produces superfices, which is Daleth, 792-l.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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He had ceased; his attendants were busy, and his shining superfices was glistening and running with cooling spray.
First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006
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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The probity that scintillizes in the superfices of your persons informs my ratiocinating faculty, in a most stupendous manner, of the radiant virtues latent within the precious caskets and ventricles of your minds.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The superfices of the face at puberty exceeds that of the hairy scalp both in the negro and the monkey, while it is always less in the white man.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Equal: of the same length, size or shape: the superfices when they are without inequalities.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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A mile beyond the road to Kilmore, the wagon, for the first time since leaving Cape Bernouilli, struck into one of those forests of gigantic trees which extend over a superfices of several degrees.
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I have some time disused, as I think the periodical style of writing hurtful to the habits of the mind, by presenting the superfices of too many things at once.
Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals Byron, George G 1854
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In many places is presented a surface of white sun-baked clay, entirely destitute of vegetation; and in others, wide spreads of sand, alike denuded; and yet again iron-bound superfices of igneous rock.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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They present but the cold superfices of character -- its rich and genial qualities have no time to be warmed into a flow.
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving 1821
slumry commented on the word superfices
Noun, from which comes the adjective superficial.
July 14, 2007