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The least desirable positions for orchard planting are narrow valleys, particularly limestone valleys in a mountainous country, traversed by a small brook, or where the surface is spouty from springs or subjacent water.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

On the other hand, the membrane may not differ from the subjacent liquid in chemical composition, but only in physical properties.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

Such a graph may be obviously dissected into a square, containing say θ� nodes, and into two graphs, one lateral and one subjacent, the latter being the conjugate of the former.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

Now with a churn-staff, beat it till the thick substance just mentioned, be intimately blended with the subjacent fluid.

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849

Close at the margin of the well leaves would decay to skeletons and mummies, which at length some stronger gust would carry clear of the ca�on and scatter in the subjacent woods.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis