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Furthermore, all the islands, great and small, as well as the headlands and promontories of the mainland, are seen to have a rounded, over-rubbed appearance produced by the over-sweeping ice-flood during the period of greatest glacial abundance.
John Muir - Travels in Alaska

A short time ago it was at least two thousand feet below the surface of the over-sweeping ice; and under present climatic conditions it will soon take its place as a glacier-polished island in the middle of the fiord, like a thousand others in the magnificent archipelago. Emerging from its icy sepulchre, it gives a most telling illustration of the birth of a marked feature of a landscape.
John Muir - Travels in Alaska

He writes to her she says and I guess she's just as good off with that as if he come home to live. She's lived this long without him." "But," argued Phœbe, the maternal in her over-sweeping all else, "he's her boy and she wants him back!" "Ach," the aunt said impatiently, "you talk too much. Were you at the store?" "Yes.
Anna Balmer Myers - Patchwork: A Story of 'The Plain People'
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