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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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a wrinkling of those small, uncrested wavelets that frequently precede the setting-in of a calm.
A Pirate of the Caribbees Harry Collingwood 1886
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"We were supposed to find a small blue container, uncrested and umarked.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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