| Some marine algae which secrete carbonate of lime not only encrust rocks but give rise to sheets of submarine limestone. |
| A constant sense of gloom is settled like a pall over the whole building, blacker even than the soot and grime which encrust it. |
| For some time, he seems to have been growing dissatisfied with the gradualist, uniformitarian patina which had grown to encrust evolutionary theory. |
| I was an instant behind myself: I saw what it all was, but the thought could not encrust itself with meaning. |
| Well-studied examples occur in the hydractiniid hydroids, which encrust hard substrata with stolons that serve as tube-like connections between feeding polyps. |
| You think this, and are ready to encrust yourself with what is conventional and practical. |
