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Use in Literature

Superimposing

On coming to the edge and making tests, they found a light liquid, as invisible as air, superimposed upon the water, with sufficient buoyancy to sustain dry wood and also some forms of life.–J.J. Astor in A Journey in Other Worlds.

Like a wavering translucent spirit face superimposed upon each of these brutish masks I saw the ideal, the possible face that would have been the actual if mind and soul had lived.–Edward Bellamy in Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887.

Our reason shows us the incoherence there is in these images, but a crowd is almost blind to this truth, and confuses with the real event what the deforming action of its imagination has superimposed thereon.–Gustave le Bon in The Crowd, Study of Popular Mind.

To create broad distinctions between the various mentalities observable in time of revolution, as we are about to do, is obviously to separate elements which encroach upon one another, which are fused or superimposed.–Gustave le Bon in The Psychology of Revolution.

The presence of these groups, actuated by different interests, must make us consider an assembly as formed of superimposed and heterogeneous crowds, each obeying its particular leaders.–Gustave le Bon in The Psychology of Revolution.

In other words, ‘his art was structure refined into beautiful forms, not beautiful forms superimposed upon structure,’ as with the Roman.–John Burroughs in Birds and Poets.

So, one by one, the figures of the real rulers of the city superimposed themselves for me upon the simple and democratic design of Mayor, Council, Board of Aldermen, Police Force, etc.–Winston Churchill in A Far Country, vol 1.

Murchison's great work on Russia, what wide gaps there are in that country between the superimposed formations; so it is in North America, and in many other parts of the world.–Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species.

She made a sort of chart, superimposing the different religions as I described them, with a pin run through them all, as it were; their common basis being a Dominant Power or Powers, and some Special Behavior, mostly taboos, to please or placate.–Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Herland [for Mother's Day].

One day of absence superimposed itself on another, and proportionately weighted his heart.–Thomas Hardy in A Pair of Blue Eyes.

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Superimposing 1
• Superimposing – "Superpose" 3
• Nonfiction Usage 6
• Journalism Usage 6
• Patent Usage 6
• Bibliographic Usage 19
• Encyclopedic Usage 22
• Lexicographic Usage 24
• Index 43