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- verb Present participle of
incase .
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Examples
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And Cocky, only a few ounces in weight, less than half a pound, a tiny framework of fragile bone covered with a handful of feathers and incasing a heart that was as big in pluck as any heart on the
CHAPTER XI 2010
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The only problem was developing a technique for incasing the truisms in the cookie.
Yadda, Yadda, Yaddo 2009
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The only problem was developing a technique for incasing the truisms in the cookie.
Yadda, Yadda, Yaddo 2009
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Shield - Carried in defence and displaying the Knights heraldic blazon, by the 15th century these were getting smaller and smaller as the armor became more incasing until they disappeared altogether.
Archive 2008-02-24 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Shield - Carried in defence and displaying the Knights heraldic blazon, by the 15th century these were getting smaller and smaller as the armor became more incasing until they disappeared altogether.
The Maids Armor de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Impelled by this feeling, he must have selected ideas from his former experience (bug -- crawling thing; basket -- incasing thing), which seemed of value in interpreting the unknown presentation.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Towards the centre of the room stood her piano, an instrument of finest tone, whose incasing you would not be likely to admire or observe.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Various
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In 1867 Mr. W.H. 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.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various
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It consists of strapping the joint by means of long, narrow strips of adhesive plaster incasing it immovably in the normal position.
The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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When prison air and prison influence have succeeded in incasing a man with the sort of moral hardbake that renders him callous to those feelings which at first so gall the raw spots, he finds himself watching with curiosity the shapings of newcomers.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell
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