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    overlying


    1. Bru had discovered a mud hole, and simply pushed back the overlying leaf litter


    2. the wave causes fusion to occur in overlying layers, creating new


    3. with or without the accompanying and overlying fat and the portions of the skin,


    4. The clouds crackled electrically and began to dissipate until I actually saw overlying rock layers, but worst of all the sky turned dark as the constant orange glow of the clouds diminished until all that lit up the surrounding landscape was the distant glow of the horizon


    5. Kneeling down as the groaning cracks and grumbles of overlying rock sounded louder and louder I took the scarf off that had encased my chest and afforded me some modesty while there had been a time for such things and wrapped it about Sheatera’s face


    6. Bitter tears welled up in her eyes, as she was forced to remember her past once more and still the overlying thought that came through it all was that all this suffering and her reason for still being alive was her father’s fault


    7. Conglomerates of the elementary particles of each underlying Plan with respect to the particles of overlying Plans, act as a material principle, i


    8. At the same time, conglomerates of the particles of overlying Plans with respect to the underlying Plans - it's the spiritual origin - the Spirit


    9. It turns out that each overlying Plan with respect to the underlying we should regard as the "Spirit" and the underlying in this case would be for it the "Mother


    10. For them, by such Ether (Information) is the one that is emitted by overlying particles Yang

    11. In the future, they are "colonized" by the particles of overlying five Plans, beginning from the Astral


    12. The particles of the underlying Plan always serve as a basis for the particles of overlying Plan


    13. Though every vestige of her dress was burnt, as they told me, she still hadsomething of her old ghastly bridal appearance; for, they had covered her to the throat with white cotton-wool, and as she lay with a white sheet loosely overlying that, the phantom air of something that had been and was changed was still upon her


    14. In the case of an extensive and shallow sea, such as that within a large part of the Malay Archipelago, where the depth varies from thirty or forty to sixty fathoms, a widely extended formation might be formed during a period of elevation, and yet not suffer excessively from denudation during its slow upheaval; but the thickness of the formation could not be great, for owing to the elevatory movement it would be less than the depth in which it was formed; nor would the deposit be much consolidated, nor be capped by overlying formations, so that it would run a good chance of being worn away by atmospheric degradation and by the action of the sea during subsequent oscillations of level


    15. , were once necessarily covered up, how can we account for the naked and extensive areas of such rocks in many parts of the world, except on the belief that they have subsequently been completely denuded of all overlying strata? That such extensive areas do exist cannot be doubted: the granitic region of Parime is described by Humboldt as being at least nineteen times as large as Switzerland


    16. I need give only one instance, namely, the manner in which the fossils of the Devonian system, when this system was first discovered, were at once recognised by palaeontologists as intermediate in character between those of the overlying carboniferous and underlying Silurian systems


    17. Other eminences are composed of amygdaloid, claystone, and other porphyries; and basalt and trap tuff occur in an overlying position


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    Synonyms for "overlying"

    overlying superimposed

    "overlying" definitions

    placed on or over something else