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What a time it was that drifted into Limbo then! One unit of history; one phase of the world's life-story! Its old civilization, senile long since, was gone, and a new kind from the west superimposed; Babylon was a memory vague and splendid; the Assyrian had gone down, and should never re-arise: Egypt of the Pharaohs had fallen forever and ever; Aryan Persia was over-run;
For example, in one restricted locality in Germany the shells of snails belonging to the genus Paludina have been found in superimposed strata in the order of their geological sequence.
"How do you like my feet?" "I suppose you mean shoes. A pretty price you paid for those. I'm sure they're too tight!" "Boats, my dear, boats! I've had to put in a sole. Didn't you know my feet were so small? How do you like my cloak? It's meant to look like a cloud. Layers of blue, pink and grey, `superimposed, as the fashion papers have it. Or should you say it was more like an opal?"
A curry had started it; a midnight golden-buck superimposed upon a miniature mince pie had, to his grief and indignation, continued an outrageous conspiracy against his liver begun by the shock of Hamil's illness.
'Certainly, Sir, said the doctor, bridling; 'I should not like to be the man to hit him you know; but it is remarkable and, curse it, Sir, if called on, I'll speak the truth as straight as you, Sir every bit, Sir. And he added an oath, and looked very red and heated. The magistrate opened his pocket-book, took forth the pattern sole, carefully superimposed it, called Toole's attention, and said
Another active cause of local variation in Scotland was the frequency of contemporaneous volcanic eruptions; some of the rocks derived from this source, as between the Grampians and the Tay, having formed islands in the sea, and having been converted into shingle and conglomerate, before the upper portions of the red shales and sandstones were superimposed.
It cannot be imposed from without, handed down from above, superimposed upon the intelligence of the person taught. It must find a response within him, give him the power and the instrument wherewith he may exercise his own growing intelligence, bring into action his own judgment and discrimination and thus contribute to the growth of his intelligence.
Unlike the others, he was armed, with a knife and pistol on his belt, and on the breast of his black tunic he wore a scarlet oval patch on which a pair of black wings, with a tapering silver object between them had been superimposed. "Yes, Lady Dallona; the Lord Garnon and I discussed this, oh, two years ago at the least. Really, I'm surprised that you seem to shrink from it, now.
The shield-shaped battlements; the courtyards, with their brutal columns, narrowing as they recede towards the mountains; the heavy gateways, with superimposed chambers; the towers; quadrangular bastion to protect, inclined basement to resist the attacks of sappers and cause projectiles to rebound all these things contribute to this very definite effect.
Accordingly there was no longer any necessity to ascribe great antiquity to the bones or the wall which we found in the Ayahuaycco quebrada. Although the "Cuzco gravels are believed to have reached their greatest extent and thickness in late Pleistocene times," more recent deposits have, however, been superimposed on top and alongside of them.
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