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palimpsest example sentences
palimpsest
1. Holmes and I sat together in silence all the evening, he engaged with a powerful lens deciphering the remains of the original inscription upon a palimpsest, I deep in a recent treatise upon surgery
2. "It will be harder to read now than that palimpsest
3. Later, she would lie in bed with her eyes open until the dark became a palimpsest of grays: chair, nightstand, the small gray stack of plays she’d checked out from the library back in March, determined to become again the literate person she’d once been
4. The telegraph carried on printing letters straight on to the paper roller, which, being small, soon developed three or four layers of illegible palimpsest before the ink ran together and turned it black
5. He examined without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature