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‘Ah, no,’ said he, again applying his eye; whereupon his face lost the animation which her presence had lent it, and became immutable as that of a bust, though superadding to the serenity of repose the sensitiveness of life.

Two on a Tower 2006

To Col. Col. belongs the honour of so combining obsolete and modern inventions, and superadding such improvements of his own, as to produce the first practical and really serviceable weapon.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

They guessed and drawled like any buckskin from Virginia, superadding to their accomplishments their insular peculiarity of always shutting one eye when they spoke to you.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829 Various

Ellis, a distinguished traveller and naturalist: -- 'As for your pretty little seed-cups, or vases, they are a sweet confirmation of the pleasure Nature seems to take in superadding an elegance of form to most of her works, wherever you find them.

The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829 Various

To go back to the old-time crowded party, superadding the increased luxury of modern entertaining, would be to re-establish an inconvenient and expensive fashion.

Etiquette Agnes H. Morton

The same solidity of material which has guarantied permanence to the fame of Izaak Walton and White of Selborne will as surely secure that of Thoreau, who excels each of these writers upon his own ground, while superadding a wider culture, a loftier thought, and a fine, though fantastic, literary skill.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

The correspondence in relation to this incident will in due course be laid before you, and will disclose the unpardonable conduct of the official referred to in his interference by advice and counsel with the suffrages of American citizens in the very crisis of the Presidential election then near at hand, and also in his subsequent public declarations to justify his action, superadding impugnment of the

State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

They told the tale of the family tree by the coats of arms and the shields emblazoned by the cutter of wood, sometimes being enriched with colour; at others the picture forms were created by inlaying and superadding fretwork.

Chats on Household Curios 1900

'A man who is converted from Protestantism to Popery may be sincere: he parts with nothing: he is only superadding to what he already had.

Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Ashburton, from which my poor Jeannie (trouble with servants, &c., superadding itself) was obliged to excuse herself and send me alone, who only stayed three days.

Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883