superexcellence

Kamel, or the perfect, from the indubitable signs of superexcellence which they perceived in him in his very infancy.

The Alhambra 2002

Kamel, or the perfect, from the indubitable signs of superexcellence which they perceived in him in his very infancy.

The Alhambra 2002

No woman would put up with the clumsiness and crudity of a man's brain, knowing so well the superexcellence of her own, in the delicacy of its machinery, the subtle science required in its employment, the absorbing interest of the material on which it is employed, and the noble purpose to which it is solely devoted.

The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

The rivers in Southern China brought down to Canton bamboos of many species, where this wondrously utilitarian reed enters very largely into the industrial life of that people, and not merely into the industrial life, but even into the culinary arts, for bamboo sprouts are a universal vegetable in China; but among all the bamboos of China I found none of superexcellence in carbonizing qualities.

Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

China brought down to Canton bamboos of many species, where this wondrously utilitarian reed enters very largely into the industrial life of that people, and not merely into the industrial life, but even into the culinary arts, for bamboo sprouts are a universal vegetable in China; but among all the bamboos of China I found none of superexcellence in carbonizing qualities.

Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

He was a man, however, who seemed to be singularly deficient in those supreme qualities which in the West have exalted the ability to "keep a hotel" into a proverbial synonym for superexcellence.

Openings in the Old Trail Bret Harte 1869

Hang superexcellence! but we know those moanings over the troubles of a married woman; we know their sources, know their goal, or else we are the fiction-puppet or the

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Hang superexcellence! but we know those moanings over the troubles of

Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868

Up to the present time the splendour of such audacious marvels hath not gone unpunished; for their very superexcellence is the death of your good name.

The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866

Hang superexcellence! but we know those moanings over the troubles of a married woman; we know their sources, know their goal, or else we are the fiction-puppet or the Bedlamite; and she is a married woman, married at the British Embassy, Madrid, if you please! after a few weeks 'acquaintance with her husband, who doubtless wrote his name intelligibly in the registrar's book, but does not prove himself much the hero when he drives a pen, even for so little as the signing of his name!

Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868