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  • It was Favian, capable-looking in his plain black cuirass and uncrested helm, who had leaped from his mount onto the platform.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • It was Favian, capable-looking in his plain black cuirass and uncrested helm, who had leaped from his mount onto the platform.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • The Peacock bowed his crested head, and they bowed their uncrested and very silly ones, and then they went to the river.

    Among the Farmyard People Clara Dillingham Pierson

  • The slopes of the roofs glistened, the dark broken ridges succeeded each other without end like sombre, uncrested waves, and from the depths of the town under his feet ascended a confused and unceasing mutter.

    Lord Jim 1900

  • The slopes of the roofs glistened, the dark broken ridges succeeded each other without end like sombre, uncrested waves, and from the depths of the town under his feet ascended a confused and unceasing mutter.

    Lord Jim 1899

  • The slopes of the roofs glistened, the dark broken ridges succeeded each other without end like sombre, uncrested waves, and from the depths of the town under his feet ascended a confused and unceasing mutter.

    Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Behind, towering over them like a huge wall, came a wave of black water, solemn, merciless, uncrested, as if bent on deadly revenge.

    Tides of Barnegat Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

  • Roman grandeur one of a more definite character -- viz., by presenting its dimensions in a new form, and supposing the city to be uncrested, as it were; its upper tiers to be what the sailors call _unshipped_; and the dethroned stories to be all drawn up in rank and file upon the ground; according to which assumption he implies that the city would stretch from the _mare Superum_ to the _mare Inferum, i. e._, from the sea of Tuscany to the Adriatic.

    Autobiographical Sketches Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • a wrinkling of those small, uncrested wavelets that frequently precede the setting-in of a calm.

    A Pirate of the Caribbees Harry Collingwood 1886

  • "We were supposed to find a small blue container, uncrested and umarked.

    Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

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