Incrusted
in sentence
6 examples of Incrusted in a sentence
This shortly brought them to a bewitching spring, whose basin was
incrusted
with a frostwork of glittering crystals; it was in the midst of a cavern whose walls were supported by many fantastic pillars which had been formed by the joining of great stalactites and stalagmites together, the result of the ceaseless water-drip of centuries.
It was from this tower,
incrusted
with figures in high relief of beast and man, that Tarvin, after a heavy climb, looked out on the vast sleeping land in the midst of which the dead city lay.
"If I could only wash it in a solution of sulphuric acid," pursued my uncle, "I should be able to clear it from all the earthy particles and the shells which are
incrusted
about it.
The antechamber, indeed, was only
incrusted
with rubies and emeralds; but the order in which everything was disposed made amends for this great simplicity.
It is thus that, little by little, developing always in sympathy with the cathedral, living there, sleeping there, hardly ever leaving it, subject every hour to the mysterious impress, he came to resemble it, he
incrusted
himself in it, so to speak, and became an integral part of it.
Beside it lay a pair of bellows no less dusty, the upper side of which bore this inscription
incrusted
in copper letters: SPIRA SPERA.
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