incrust
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In so many arid forms which States incrust themselves with, once in a century, if so often, a poetic act and record occur.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
Saracenic pendentives with Cuphic legends incrust the richly painted ceiling of the nave.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
But in the Gallo-Scottish style everything tends to the perpendicular, not only in the long, narrow shapes of the buildings themselves, and their tall, spiral turrets, but in the many decorations which incrust them.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 by William Chambers
Fuses with the evolution of dense white fumes, which incrust the surface of the charcoal.
"True," said Mohi, "they absorb the oil of the smoke, instead of allowing it offensively to incrust."
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
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