Example Sentences

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But the picture of Sanchia and Melusine, two fair girls, standing together embraced under the cedarn shade had smitten deep into the well-cased heart of Cyrus Worthington.

From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

They are spacious, well-cased, subterranean reservoirs, and some of them large enough to supply the whole town for several weeks.

From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by Burckhardt, John Lewis

Ames’s hirelings, with loaded rifles, assisted the constables and city police in the miserable work, themselves cursing often because of the keen blasts that nipped their ears and numbed their well-cased limbs.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis