A wide variety of pre-eminently contemporary scenes. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : He is preeminent in his profession. From Dictionary.com.
They are pre-eminently locomotive and perambulating. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
George Washington was pre-eminently a hero of the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
The clergy are still pre-eminently the molders of education. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
+The Story+ is simple and pre-eminently in the popular vein. From Wordnik.com. [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference
Mrs. Graham possesses pre-eminently the divine "gift of song.". From Wordnik.com. [Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York] Reference
Individuality, which gradually came to be pre-eminently active. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Once again the epithet "good," which he so pre-eminently merited. From Wordnik.com. [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference
Senate was pre-eminently the legislative body in the constitution of. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
This was pre-eminently true in Indiana, and especially so as to myself. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
But just as the Great Council was pre-eminently the elective body, so the. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
All your own set will be there -- pre-eminently the right people all round. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
It was pre-eminently the face and body of one made to govern rather than to obey. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
While all the islands are tropical in appearance, Cebu is pre-eminently luxuriant. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
"That is pre-eminently one of the things that no fellow can find out," he answered. From Wordnik.com. [The Master-Knot of Human Fate] Reference
It is pre-eminently an educational speech which any man can hear or read with pride. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
He was pre-eminently the hero of duty, and the servant of what he believed to be the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
The central part of the Pacific Ocean is pre-eminently the home of the reef-building coral. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
I think it was everywhere and pre-eminently a struggle between the men of brains on either side. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
Already Ilfracombe was beginning to be, however, what it now is pre-eminently, a "holiday resort.". From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
But pre-eminently was M. Olier the guiding spirit of this splendid association of Catholic hearts. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
The English public is pre-eminently untechnical in its judgments, pre-eminently literary or moral. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
It is consequently not as a direct chemical manure that farmyard manure is pre-eminently valuable. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
The characteristics of the bravest of our British soldiers were pre-eminently displayed in Gordon. From Wordnik.com. [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference
The common accusation that the English are not 'good Europeans' was pre-eminently untrue in his case. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Men have known this communion in such a degree that they have been called pre-eminently the Friends of. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
This, the work before us is pre-eminently calculated to promote, and we cordially recommend it to all. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
This explains the pre-eminently conchological aspect of the magical properties of the mandrake and the bryony. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Old Continent from the New World, there are two which stand pre-eminently conspicuous from their general adoption. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Stoicism, Epicureanism, Scepticism, and all the minor schools of the age, are pre-eminently ethical in their character. From Wordnik.com. [The Basis of Early Christian Theism] Reference
"The sentiment of feeling awakened by any of the aquatic fowls is pre-eminently one of loneliness," says John Burroughs. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
The Greek world of this period, as we know it, was pre-eminently educated, but in a special, literary sense of the term. From Wordnik.com. [The Basis of Early Christian Theism] Reference
Often he shows that exact sense of lyrical fitness which Milton pre-eminently possessed, and, second only to him, Shelley. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
No woman has ever yet been a caricaturist, in spite of the fact that her femininity befits her pre-eminently for the part. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
I remember him as a good natured, agreeable man, who was pre-eminently capable of filling the highest places in public life. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference
It will readily be agreed that if this is so of any sensations it is pre-eminently true of the sensations of vision and touch. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
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