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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Superficies.

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  • The action is divided between two settings, the first a collection of habitation zones each with its own, highly eccentric characteristics, suggestive of superficialty or consciousness and marked by incidental humour the exaggerated street violence of Red, the Action Centre where no-one is supposedly competitive but they have thirty-seven sub grades of ticket collector, etc. the second is the mysterious and eerie "Jeamland."

    Archive 2009-03-01 Sci-Fi Gene 2009

  • The action is divided between two settings, the first a collection of habitation zones each with its own, highly eccentric characteristics, suggestive of superficialty or consciousness and marked by incidental humour the exaggerated street violence of Red, the Action Centre where no-one is supposedly competitive but they have thirty-seven sub grades of ticket collector, etc. the second is the mysterious and eerie "Jeamland."

    Time to hit the road to Jeamland [Review: Only Forward] Sci-Fi Gene 2009

  • Now, in her waywardness she had aroused that character and overthrown the hindering superficialty in which she had clothed it.

    The Story of the Foss River Ranch Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • It's only when someone who knows where the bodies are buried that we, who were not there, understand the true superficialty of what went on.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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