Sentence example with the word 'underlain'

underlain

Last update: August 31, 2015


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Much of Shaftesbury's career, increasingly so as it came near its close, is incapable of defence; but it has escaped most of his critics that his life up to the Restoration, apparently full of inconsistencies, was evidently guided by one leading principle, the determination to uphold the supremacy of parliament, a principle which, however obscured by self-interest, appears also to have underlain his whole political career.   [Please select]

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An abrupt retreating escarpment commonly forms on arid plateaus underlain by horizontal rocks of unequal strength, and characterizes the borders of mesas.   [Please select]

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Their friendship, signed and sealed outwardly by what they gave, was underlain by affection of a promising sort.   [Please select]

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A pile of brush underlain by ashes was by, and I crept into that.   [Please select]

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