superficies

• There will be a momentary discomfort as we pass through the superficies, which may inconvenience sensitive persons. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
• My object was to indicate the interior through the superficies, and thereby illustrate the whole living body which concerns surgery, through its dissected dead counterfeit. —  Surgical Anatomy
• But still the superficies is so moulded upon the deeper situated structures, that we are induced to study it as a map, which discourses of all which it incloses in the healthy or the diseased state. —  Surgical Anatomy
• The superficies was composed of several bits of wood, about the bigness of a die, but some larger than others. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
• Maupassant's vision was of solid superficies, of texture which his hands could touch, of actions which his mind could comprehend from the mere sight of its incidents. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories

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