incrustation

How To Use incrustation In A Sentence

• They ascended a mountain, whose enormous piles of granite, torn by many a winter tempest, projected their barren summits from a surface of moorland, on which lay a deep incrustation of snow. The Scottish Chiefs
• Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange, crested, comblike incrustation on the top of the mass — this green, barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the “crown,” and the Southern fishers the Moby Dick; or the Whale
• All are lighter than recent bones, with the exception of those which have a calcareous incrustation, and the cavities of which are filled with such matter. Essays
• Star Pond, set to its limpid depths with the heavenly gems, glittered and darkled with its million diamond incrustations. The Flaming Jewel
• Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange, crested, comblike incrustation on the top of the mass -- this green, barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the "crown," and the Southern fishers the "bonnet" of the Right Whale; fixing your eyes solely on this, you would take the head for the trunk of some huge oak, with a bird's nest in its crotch. Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
• Dirt, one would fancy, is plenty enough all over the world, being the symbolic accompaniment of the foul incrustation which began to settle over and bedim all earthly things as soon as Eve had bitten the apple; ever since which hapless epoch, her daughters have chiefly been engaged in a desperate and unavailing struggle to get rid of it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
• A white incrustation called efflorescence is often found on the surface of interior masonry walls.
• It will be thus seen that there are no changes of any essential kind in the chemical composition of the bast fibre throughout the life-history of the plant, confirming the conclusion that the 'incrustation' view of lignification is consistent only with the structural features of the changes, and so far as it has assumed the gradual overlaying of a cellulose fibre with the lignone substance it is not in accordance with the facts. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900
• The little green cushions and incrustations occur not only in association with trees and rocks.
• Catholic verities, the primitive truths and practices of the Church of CHRIST, as sanctioned by GOD’s Word, we removed those incrustations of deadly error under which they were well-nighed buried... The Little Professor: