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He was wise, made no attempt to hold her, let her go; but, as she fled under the firs, her webs sinking deep into the heavy, uncrusted snow, he stood and watched her keenly.

From The Branding Iron by Burt, Katharine Newlin

It was enough that she had given him back his dreams, that she had taken him back to those fragrant days when his uncrusted soul had known without knowing.

From The Seventh Noon by Frederick, Edmund

In the thick woods, where no sweeping winds could swirl it here and there and pile it in hard smooth banks, the snow was spread evenly, a loose, three-foot layer, as yet uncrusted.

From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

How should one explain the origin of uncrusted mollusks from crusted ones through the struggle for existence, since in such a contest the latter must have had far greater prospect of survival than the former?

From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by O'Harra, Edwin V.