The audience was held by the substance of the play rather than by the superficies of the production-R.W.Speaight. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Certainly not with a heartfelt froufrou letter (which, on the superficies, is immediately insulting). From Wordnik.com. [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference
You should have the sugar-box by you, to strew on sugar from time to time, as you eat off the superficies, that is strewed over with sugar. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
Watteau -- Watteau the painter -- not that superficies which is more or less familiar to every hack, be he limner or penman, who dabbles in the eighteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Since Cézanne] Reference
The extremities of a superficies are expediencies. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841] Reference
For indeed these superficies of conic sections are circles. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
The only example of its kind; a class of its own; unique superficies. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The whole superficies comprehended, in a very irregular shape, about. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
Xenocrates says that the stars are moved in one and the same superficies. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
The outward form or superficies masks in some degree the form of the interior. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
A superficies is that which professes to have principle, but has no consistency. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841] Reference
We know no more of the essence of matter than the children who touch its superficies. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
He described things not in or near to his heart, but toward his extremities and superficies. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
One must remember that this aerial car had a base with a superficies of fifty-four square feet. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
No permita que los niños muerdan los marcos de las ventanas ni las demás superficies pintadas. From Wordnik.com. [Lead in paint, dust, and soil] Reference
Suppose a Sphere and Cube of Gold, of equal superficies, the Sphere will have the greatest Capacity. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759] Reference
Thus having taken some notice of the superficies of the land, let us a little search into its bowels. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
Limpie semanalmente los pisos, los marcos de ventanas, los huecos y rendijas y las demás superficies. From Wordnik.com. [Lead in paint, dust, and soil] Reference
The other Stoics say that they are moved in various superficies, some being superior, others inferior. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
Therefore it is probable that the air coming upon the superficies of the oil keepeth it fresh and new. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
The superficies of the island is estimated at somewhat less than two millions and a quarter of English acres. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
The negative electrode is formed of four carbons, which have, each of them, a superficies of 8×21 centimeters. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884] Reference
It is ridiculous therefore not to reckon the superficies, and to leave the inequality in the bodies themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
They present but the cold superficies of character — its rich and genial qualities have no time to be warmed into a flow. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
The one represented a military bivouac occupying a superficies of 330 square feet, and the other a captive balloon resembling a. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Besides, if there are superficies neither equal nor unequal, what hinders but there may be also circles neither equal nor unequal?. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
También puede ser un peligro si se encuentra en superficies que los niños puedan morder o que reciben muchos desgastes, tal como. From Wordnik.com. [Lead in paint, dust, and soil] Reference
The superficies of the earth being twice seven times that of the moon, what an influence the earth must exercise over its satellite!. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
A plain superficies is that of which two opposite speeches being taken, the line between them evidently lies wholly in the direction of. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841] Reference
The general relations which the larger vessels of the inguino-femoral region bear to each other and to the superficies, may be referred to in. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
These several marks described on the superficies he takes as certain guides to the precise locality and relations of the more deeply situated organs. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
My object was to indicate the interior through the superficies, and thereby illustrate the whole living body which concerns surgery, through its dissected dead counterfeit. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
My philosophy of life, "he continued, standing now before the fire, and receiving its entire radiation upon the superficies of his back," is to extract sunshine from cucumbers. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
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