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Smith patented a method of preserving timber, by incasing it in vitrified earthenware pipes, and filling the space between the timber and the pipe with a grouting of hydraulic cement.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various

There was an entirely new hauteur incasing Miss Kirk, who upon her entrance wound into an attitude.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie

On her shining curls perched a big white satin bow, while incasing each foot, and completing the whole, was a dainty, soft kid shoe.

From The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Gates, Eleanor

These early experimenters found the greatest difficulty in incasing their wires in rubber, practical methods of working that substance being then unknown.

From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Towers, Walter Kellogg

While the others were incasing themselves in exclusive pride, she was eager to investigate and get en rapport with this new phase of humanity.

From From Jest to Earnest by Roe, Edward Payson