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  • If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,

    walt whitman | election day, november, 1884 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • This is hard to conceive, yet can I make good how even that may prey upon our bodies, and yet not consume us: for in this material world, there are bodies that persist invincible in the powerfulest flames; and though, by the action of fire, they fall into ignition and liquation, yet will they never suffer a destruction.

    Religio Medici 2007

  • A dance – song and satire on the spirit of gravity my supremest, powerfulest devil, who is said to be “lord of the world.” —

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • Yes, sir, thet big rustler -- you know he's as broad as he is long, an 'the powerfulest build of a man -- yes, sir, the nerve had been taken out of him.

    Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1905

  • A dance-song and satire on the spirit of gravity my supremest, powerfulest devil, who is said to be "lord of the world."

    Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

  • She's the powerfulest hand to do her duty that ever was.

    Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life Evelyn Raymond 1876

  • A dance-song and satire on the spirit of gravity my supremest, powerfulest devil, who is said to be "lord of the world."

    Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • Lastly, powerfulest of all, least recognised of all, a Noblesse of Literature; without steel on their thigh, without gold in their purse, but with the 'grand thaumaturgic faculty of Thought' in their head.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • And first to those same Master-Workers, Leaders of Industry; who stand nearest and in fact powerfulest, though not most prominent, being as yet in too many senses a Virtuality rather than an Actuality.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

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