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• I still cling too much to the surface. (12)
• Surface emotions were not seen on her. (10)
• The rough, brute man in him thrust itself to the surface! (13)
• Such was the plain sense of the surface question. (10)
• She was near that distinguished surface, not on it. (10)
• They were spreading not merely on the surface, but within. (8)
• A matte surface of paint or an egg-shell enamel finish is better. (17)
• The surface water should be carefully distributed away from the house. (17)
• The surface was attentive to receive, The secret underneath enfolded fast. (10)
• There are one or two surface indications of all this which may be noticed. (14)
• Did she visit the spring to admire her own image in its mirror-like surface? (5)
• Vanities, passions, prejudices beneath the surface, gave her full employment. (10)
• Mr. Raikes did his best to keep his head above the surface of the rapid flood. (10)
• The house was guarded from visitors, and on the surface the home was peaceful. (10)
• How much would the great dame have marvelled to behold the ambition beneath the bustling surface! (10)
• Her days were so well and fully occupied that anxiety was forced below the surface. (8)
• The point to be considered is, whether friction demands a perfectly smooth surface. (10)
• He abandoned himself to a fancy which had been working to the surface of his thought. (9)
• The shadows lay as solid on the swift surface of the stream as on the stable meadows. (2)
• They beat the water vigorously with quick, downward strokes, forcing him to the surface. (1)
• And the nightmare went on for both of them, under the calm surface of an ordinary Sunday. (8)
• The felt covering the main surface of the roof should lap over the valley metal 4 inches. (17)
• Behind him there was nothing but the restless surface of the moor, coloured purplish-brown. (8)
• Estimate the number of square feet of exposed wall surface in the room, including windows. (17)
• A sense of something finer than the surface meaning of her words pierced his morbid egotism. (9)
• She was standing by the bed, drawing her hand over and over the white surface of the pillow. (8)
• The surface was given a varied color and texture, and the form was not made so machine-like. (17)
• He came to the surface in the year 187-, with nothing in the world but his clothes and an idea. (8)
• To look at it was to fancy they had been walking under water and had now risen to the surface. (10)
• Since plaster is not elastic, any slight change in shape of the surface will cause it to crack. (17)
• Then came a series of climbings and fallings, risings to the surface and sinkings fathoms below. (10)
• He talked evenly and simply, and appeared on the surface as composed as any of the guests present. (10)
• Hilary took him by his bathing-dress, raised him to the surface, and supported him towards the land. (8)
• The water gleamed with dashes of red, and red, too, were many of the stones protruding above the surface. (1)
• His hand raised above the surface fell back on his stomach through the dark water, and a bubble or two rose. (8)
• This pigment takes away the transparent qualities of the varnish and gives a definite color to the surface. (17)
• He came to the pond, where flies and gnats were dancing over a bright reedy surface; and on into the coppice. (8)
• The painter shook his head with a smile which seemed to Fort very bright on the surface, and very sad underneath. (8)
• The finished coat is then added on top of this and is intended to develop a plane surface with the desired color. (17)
• The upper surface of the court itself should slope across from one long side to the other with a pitch of 2 inches. (17)
• While Miss Current and her ephemerals lightly skimmed the surface of human life, the Countess worked in the depths. (10)
• He put his hands on the dry, almost warm tree trunk, whose rough mossy surface gave forth a peaty scent at his touch. (8)
• I had not to learn that the simplest visits and observations of ruling princes signify more than lies on the surface. (10)
• The cause of this condensation is the same as that which forms sweat on the exterior surface of a glass of cold water. (17)
• On the surface she will witch, Rendering Beauty yours, but gaze Under, and the soul is rich Past computing, past amaze. (10)
• We follow many, more we lead, And you who sadly turf us, Believe not that all living seed Must flower above the surface. (10)
• The light playing over such a surface will cast shadows in the hollows between the lumps and light up the tops of the lumps. (17)
• The dusty mote-images rose; Sheer film of the surface awag: They sank as they rose; their pain Declaring them mine of old days. (10)
• We see too much concrete that is dull, pasty, and gray, and marred on the surface with cobweb lines of cracks; but this need not be. (17)
• The sky was blue and cloudless, and the sliding surface of the river held up, in smooth places, a mirror to the heaven and the shores. (2)
• The water of the canal stood at about the drinking temperature of tea; and under this cold aspersion the surface was covered with steam. (2)
• However, a chip from the surface will reveal the yellow and porous texture of the earthenware below the glazed surface. (17)
• The rain came in gray rings, through which we worked on the fretted surface of crumbling seas, heaving up and plunging, without an outlook. (10)
• She followed his explanation with a surface sense, while her nether mind was full of the worry of the question which Ellen had planted in it. (9)
• She had no intimate understanding of the deadly wrestle of the conventional woman with her nature which she was undergoing below the surface. (10)
• The size of the water-back was proportioned on the basis of 2 square inches of heating surface to each gallon storage capacity in the boiler. (17)
• It related to the quality of his work, which was quietly artistic and psychological, whatever liveliness of incident it uttered on the surface. (9)
• But stygian darkness reigns within The river of death from the founts of sin; And one prophetic water rolls Its gas-lit surface for their souls. (10)
• One tug at it, and he was up on the surface, disengaged from the hideous harness, joyfully no more that burly phantom cleaving green slime, free! (10)
• So, the parading of Austria, the towering athlete, failed of its complete lesson of intimidation, and only ruffled the surface of insurgent hearts. (10)
• How is the fire-pot designed to increase the efficiency of its radiating surface and how is it strengthened against the expansive force of the fire? (17)
• The worst phase of this whole business, however, is one which does not appear on the surface, but which certainly offers food for serious reflection. (16)
• The furring makes an air space between the wall and the plaster, and all dampness is prevented from penetrating to the interior surface of the plaster. (17)
• The smile was of the acceptedly feigned, conventional character; a polished Surface: belonging to the passage of the discourse, and not to the emotions. (10)
• The intervening chapters will show pitiable weakness, and such a schooling of disaster as makes men, looking on the surface of things, deem the struggle folly. (10)
• He moves accordingly, examining the glass on the dressing-table, the surface of the suit cases, and the handles of the drawers, with a spy-glass, for finger-marks. (8)
• Years before they had reached the point where they dispensed with polite subterfuges and usually confined their social intercourse to the superficial surface of conversation. (13)

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