encrusted

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It is with his career as with that of other saints: they become overlaid--encrusted, as it were--with extraneous legendary material in the course of ages, even as a downward-rolling avalanche gathers snow.

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  • “We found it with these sad remains.” Snudge took the muck-encrusted, faintly gleaming object, bent down, and rinsed it in one of the myriad pools of rainwater. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
  • The battery was encrusted, and mice had eaten the spark plug wires, but to my eyes the innards looked clean. —  4th ofJuly - Patterson
  • But baby, your price for what Rudi slipped an Old Gold between his thick lips and dug out a diamond-encrusted lighter. —  EQMM, May2006
  • A pile of dirt-encrusted tubers stood near her battered head. —  Analog February, 1971
  • "I am longing to see your new phaeton You would grace it with your beauty," Sir John said, removing a pearl-encrusted snuffbox from his waistcoat pocket and flicking the lid open with one elegant thumb. —  The Obedient Bride
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