superincumbent
Example Sentences
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As the meal progressed, the superincumbent earth weighed less heavily on their souls.
From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s
Notwithstanding the care taken to shore them up, the roofs of the abandoned quarries still give way occasionally under the superincumbent weight.
From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by William Walton
The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.
From Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
But Sir Gilbert Scott thought that if a bit of the superincumbent stone was raised, some portion of the more ancient monument might exist beneath.
From The Children of Westminster Abbey Studies in English History by Rose Georgina Kingsley
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 John M. Landrum
