Adjective : Switzerland has sublime scenery. ,a sublime dinner. ,sublime stupidity. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the sublime in art. From Dictionary.com.
Senator, his hair bristling out straight, his teeth set, his eye on fire, his whole expression sublimed by the ardor of battle. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
In which Captain Crowe is sublimed into the regions on. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
If necessary to further purify it, it is again sublimed. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
In which Captain Crowe is sublimed into the regions on Astrology. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
Take of citrine ointment 1-1/2 drm., sublimed sulphur 1 drm., lard. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Her whole face was refined and sublimed by the thought that was within her. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
The grandeur of the occasion had sublimed his usually rugged features into majesty. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
The monarch is sublimed entirely into, but is not identical with, the concept of "country.". From Wordnik.com. [The Discourse of Treason, Sedition, and Blasphemy in British Political Trials, 1794-1820] Reference
Love sublimed by a purity, by a true delicacy, that hardly any woman before her could boast of. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
About 100 lb. of sublimed sulphur is then added, and the agitation is continued for another two hours. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887] Reference
Notable among these was one with a long horizontal chimney, which could trap the arsenic and other minerals as they sublimed. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
I started using this journal just to post comments to other journals, primarily those of people who had sublimed from the Culture List. From Wordnik.com. [Choose Your Own Adventure] Reference
By dusk we reached the highest habitation in North America, the place where the sulphur used to be sublimed from the pumice brought down from the crater. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
The custom of introducing humorous epilogue, farce, and buffoonery, after the mind has been agitated, softened, or sublimed by tragic scenes, has been often objected to. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
With sublimed mercury, that shall burst i 'the heat. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary — Volume 02] Reference
Everything sublimed, and a true corrosive sublimate was formed. From Wordnik.com. [Discovery of Oxygen, Part 2] Reference
Jacobinism sublimed and exalted into most pure and perfect essence. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)] Reference
Michelangelo softened, sublimed, and harmonised his predecessor's qualities. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
Christianity is sublimed into an exquisite thing called modern "spiritualism.". From Wordnik.com. [The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic] Reference
You observe, too, that nature passes into poetry; that form is sublimed into speech. From Wordnik.com. [A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare] Reference
He looked so tranquil, so sublimed by suffering, that I felt my self unworthy to be his teacher. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Clearings versus the Bush] Reference
The ethereal portions sublimed and formed the heavens; the heavier residuum became the present earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji] Reference
The grand is always more or less ideal, and the elevation of a moment is sublimed into the spirit of a life. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
Tennyson gives in "In Memoriam" that interpretation of human life which comes when love is sublimed by death. From Wordnik.com. [The Chief End of Man] Reference
A considerable portion of the caffein is sublimed off during roasting, thus decreasing the amount in the bean. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
All this was but symbol, requiring to be thrice sublimed in interpretation ere its true meaning can be grasped. From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
The light was a golden, hazy one, made up of myriads of sublimed memories, associations, judgments, conclusions. From Wordnik.com. [Foes] Reference
Through it all survived the truths that love is supreme, and that the law of life is goodness sublimed to holiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Chief End of Man] Reference
The most useful consist of five parts of sublimed sulphur, one of nitre, one of linseed meal, and two of lard or palm oil. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
This substance consisted of colorless crystals, which readily sublimed, melted at 115° to 117° C., and contained sulphur. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
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