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This change is of course due to a cause which lies very near the surface — to the gradual effacement of the deeply-cut separating lines between the orders of society, and the stealthy uprise of the class, which is fast gathering all power into its own hands.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

The Chinese here, as elsewhere, showed their superior wealth and civilization by tombstones of solid granite brought from Singapore, with deeply-cut inscriptions, the characters of which are painted in red, blue, and gold.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

-- In the month of May there is not a more beautiful tree to be found than the horse-chestnut, with its large, deeply-cut leaves of a bright-green color and its long, tapering spikes of variegated flowers, which turn upward from the dense foliage.

Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church

As they ran to the fence they noted the deeply-cut scores in the icy crust which marked the first dropping shot, and Peter became loud in his praises of the weapon.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

The elegant little herb grows from two to six inches high, with deeply-cut leaves, and numerous white or [176] purplish tiny flowers variegated with yellow; being partially a parasite, and preying on the roots of other plants.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

The wild and deeply-cut features had something different from humanity; the extraordinary thickness of the shaggy eyebrows; the bronzed glow of the countenance; the frightful eyes, with their steady unsupportable glare; even the broad folds of the Oriental dress were, each in turn, the subject of uneasy and suspicious comment.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

High turbans of white or red cambric, elaborately twisted, add dignity to the stately figures, deeply-cut features and hawk noses denoting Arab origin, for the Makassarese is a lineal descendant of the Moslem pirates, once the terror of these island-studded seas.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

It was on this occasion that the Fifteenth Corps gained its peculiar badge: as the men were trudging along the deeply-cut, muddy road, of a cold, drizzly day, one of our Western soldiers left his ranks and joined a party of the Twelfth Corps at their camp-fire.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Down the centre of each of its four faces runs a line of deeply-cut hieroglyphics, in whose cavities the wild mason-bees construct their mud-cells and store their honey.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

Little-girl leaned up and read, running her finger along the deeply-cut quaint letters and figures, which spelt: "Roman Gryphon, 1160."

The Golden Apple Tree 1920