superincumbent

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Yet these are hidden beneath a superincumbent mass of trivialities.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

The levee of her commercial emporium literally trembles, in a frontage of nine miles, beneath the superincumbent masses of merchandise.

From The Slavery Question Speech of Hon. John M. Landrum, of La., Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 27, 1860 by Landrum, John M.

But grasping is not so easy; or rather it is not so easy to pull a fish up through two feet of superincumbent water which opposes the quick passage of the arm.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard

A greater superincumbent mass, required shorter and thicker columns; a less superincumbent mass, longer and slender ones.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander

The priests—the worshippers, where were they? sleeping beneath the ruins of the crumbling chancel; their high or holy names, which no man remembers, carved deep in the superincumbent marble.

From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Ingraham, Jonathon Holt