Interpret the plague as a visitation from heaven, a supernal punishment for the sins of men. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We call the supernal lights fixed, yet they wander about yonder plain, and if. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
We call the supernal lights fixed, yet they wander about yonder plain, and if I look again where I looked an hour ago, the face of the eternal heavens is altered. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
Even if they had shown a pristine 35 print on 40-foot-high silver using a brand-new bulb, it wouldn't have looked "supernal" in the least. From Wordnik.com. [In The Company Of Glenn] Reference
A kind of supernal visitant, vanishing anon into nothingness, or only a pawnbroker's duplicate. From Wordnik.com. [The Lovels of Arden] Reference
Sat astride on his nose, with a look of wisdom supernal. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
To have known of all raptures, the rapture supernal, divine. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Dreams Poems] Reference
I press towards the mark, to the prize of the supernal vocation of. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 57: Philippians The Challoner Revision] Reference
Once more, listen to my supernal words, the most mysterious of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
In that supernal realm we are all but motes; in the court of the Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Bahíyyih Khánum] Reference
But has he learned nothing new to tell us in those 'supernal spheres'?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Meder walked out of his cell with a look of supernal calm on his face. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Daniel, however, of the captive race, revealed it by supernal influence. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
It shed beams over everything, beams of a positively supernal brilliance. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossibles] Reference
The cabin of a sunken vessel is dark beyond any supernal conception of darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
The girl quickens to these revelations, to the supernal nature of the experience. From Wordnik.com. [The Impulse of Breathing] Reference
Susan's eyes seemed to expand as she turned them up to Mr. Hicks, the source of supernal illumination. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
They disappeared in tiny flashes of supernal brilliance, going out of existence like moths in a firestorm. From Wordnik.com. [The End of the Matter]
If Stewart's "rough magic" is at times too rough for the play's supernal poetry, his Prospero is a man, not a mystic. From Wordnik.com. [Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On] Reference
A young man in the fullness of youth-an idealized distortion of Mordecai Povalo-was courting a woman of supernal beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Orphan Star]
But she had said that, if he were worthily to retain her love, he must share the knowledge shrined in her supernal eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Therese Borchard: 7 Ways to Celebrate Christmas All Year Round] Reference
Upon arriving at the source, it cleaves to the supernal light that is drawn from there, and the woman and man become one. From Wordnik.com. [Iggeret Ha-Kodesh.] Reference
Since man must worship something supernal, what more tremendous than the cataclysm, if such it were, that evolved the stars. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The metaphor in this stage action seems clear: we humans are being watched by a supernal being without our conscious awareness. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Whatever the outcome, after this, nothing could rob them of the deep, supernal joy that flashed there between them for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [A Husband by Proxy] Reference
One height, with a supernal leap, had risen from the highest, and stood poised a mile aloft, as if it were a feat to stand so for. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Other forms of divination, especially the egg omen, are employed to determine whether the supernal powers approve the site or not. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
As yet he did not know whether she talked of the Israelitish conception of supernal life, or of a belief in a temporal redemption. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
None are wholly destitute of supernal influences -- of awakenings and convictions, or devoid of power to cherish or to resist them. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
Did we choose such actions, if we knew our choices to be the effect of invincible, supernal influence, they would give us no concern. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
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