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Example sentences for "covered over"

  • As I lay there, covered over with a black cloth, I felt as dead as dead could be; and my playmates were the unholy priests in gorgeous robes of velvet and silk and gold.

  • At my father's place lay the Sabbath loaf, covered over with a crocheted doily; and beside it stood the wine flask and kiddush cup of gold or silver.

  • Luther, however, thrust all this aside; his quest was for a simpler and easier method, through faith alone, by which sin may be vanquished or covered over.

  • As I have often said, the Kingdom of Christ is nothing else but forgiveness and perpetual blotting out of sin, which is extinguished, covered over, swept away and made clean while we are living here.

  • This space is covered over with a plate of muco-cartilage which bears on its inner surface the thyroid gland.

  • Pound covert, a pound that is close or covered over, as a shed.

  • The coffin is ornamented with painting, and is covered over with an embroidered cloth.

  • The monks have also small gardens, covered over in winter, which being watered from the hot spring are effectually defended from the extreme cold and snow, which are so rigorous in this region so near the pole.

  • In those days the habitations of the Arabs were made of a framework of Jarid or palm sticks, covered over with a cloth of camel's hair, a curtain of similar stuff forming the door.

  • Every Sultan added some ornament to the Mambar, and at one time it was made of white marble, covered over with a dome of the "eight metals.

  • His long, soft cloak of blue velvet disclosed, in opening, a buff-skin of extreme elasticity, covered over with a steel net so finely wrought that it was as flexible as the thinnest material.

  • A table of massive oak, covered over with a rich oriental drapery, furnished the middle of the gallery.

  • The nave is covered over with a timber roof with stalactitic coves and coffered ceiling, richly decorated in colour and gilded, the borders of the panels bearing Arabic inscriptions in Cufic characters.

  • Steenstrup mentions two bones of a large stag into which stone chips had penetrated deeply, and in which the fracture had been gradually covered over by the bony tissue.

  • A tumulus in the Guisseny commune (Finistere), excavated about two years ago, covered over a sepulchral crypt.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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