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Layers of concrete are laid over the roof rods to a thickness of from eighteen to thirty inches, and carried two inches below the rods, imbedding them.
From The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment by Anonymous
There are no abstruse difficulties in properly imbedding a plant.
From Success with Small Fruits by Roe, Edward Payson
To prevent the edge of the key from imbedding in the brass, a piece of hardened steel is sometimes placed between the key and the brass, as shown in the figure.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
By hypothesis this rigid, incompressible body pervades all space, imbedding every particle of tangible matter; yet it seems not to retard the movements of this matter in the slightest degree.
From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith
Then, folding his arms, he watched the imbedding of those bricks in their plaster with a sovereign calm like that of Vitellius eating figs at the combats of the gladiators.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various
