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Of the yellow of ripe corn silk, his frost-incrusted hair swept like day across the night, and fell far down his coat of bear-skin.

An Odyssey of the North 2010

Of the yellow of ripe corn silk, his frost-incrusted hair swept like day across the night, and fell far down his coat of bear-skin.

An Odyssey of the North 2010

Tables were filled with hammered turquoise-incrusted bracelets, and earrings.

Harlem, Get A Taste of Brooklyn! « 2009

Dorn found small-arms ammunition, hoarded by the officers for as long as eight years, “so incrusted with filth and corrosion as to be useless, while warehouses nearby are stocked with tens of millions of new American ammunition sic.”

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

I drew nearer and saw him sitting on a throne incrusted and inlaid with pearls and gems; and his robes were of gold-cloth adorned with jewels of every kind, each one flashing like a star.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

It is doubtful, indeed, whether the interior be not a natural hill, though it seems not improbable that it is an artificial composition of stone and earth, deeply incrusted, as is certain, in every part with alternate strata of brick and clay.

Cholula: traveling the Central High Plains of Mexico 2006

Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt seemed to be fairly incrusted, and which possessed but one virginity, that of the broom, were capriciously grouped constellations of old shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, so it was let for forty francs a year.

Les Miserables 2008

It is doubtful, indeed, whether the interior be not a natural hill, though it seems not improbable that it is an artificial composition of stone and earth, deeply incrusted, as is certain, in every part with alternate strata of brick and clay.

Cholula: traveling the Central High Plains of Mexico 2006

Quite near here, in the Rue Saint – Antoine, opposite the Rue des Nonamdieres, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in the wall of the third story of a house with this inscription: ‘July 28th, 1830.’

Les Miserables 2008

There are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires which special science calls moutardes. 59 The pick advances laboriously through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans.

Les Miserables 2008