And therefore from the beginning, was He borne supereminent above the waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions] Reference

He considers him "supereminent above all heroes living in the Temple of Fame.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Bolivar, the Liberator] Reference

Only, as was before intimated, this spiritual redemption hath some supereminent things in it, that are not to be found in other deliverances; as, —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] Reference

He had contemptuously referred to Conkling's "haughty disdain, his grandiloquent swell, his majestic, supereminent, overpowering, turkey-gobbler strut.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference

And that it is necessarie there should be one supereminent, vnto whome all the residue should stoope: this fraile bodie of ours may giue vs sufficient instruction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England] Reference

One can hold that God's moral goodness involves supereminent possession of the virtues, at least insofar as those virtues do not presuppose weakness and vulnerability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theological Voluntarism] Reference

Alexius interposed a new and supereminent dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5] Reference

Such, in a supereminent degree, may be said of holiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God.] Reference

Isaac, the crafty Alexius interposed a new and supereminent dignity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

All the family were quick at it, but his astounding memory made him supereminent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference

He considers him “supereminent above all heroes living in the Temple of Fame.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Bolivar the Liberator]

"My opponent displays a majestic, supereminent, overpowering, turkey-gobbler strut.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference

Yet it needs no supereminent and accessory sweetness, it is so satisfactory in itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

It is this quality which has made the master-works of Chillingworth and Bentley supereminent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gibbon] Reference

He has overthrown, he has mortified me, where I alone should have stood supreme and supereminent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia] Reference

The quality of the love of procreating is known from its delight, which is supereminent and transcendent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love] Reference

Another characteristic of a bishop is, "not greedy of filthy lucre," which brother Kyle exhibited in a supereminent degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biography of Elder David Purviance, with His Memoirs: Containing His Views on Baptism, the Divinity of Christ, and the Atonement. Written by Himself: with an Appendix; Giving Biographical Sketches of Elders John Hardy, Reuben Dooly, William Dye, Thos. Kyle, George Shidler, William Kinkade, Thomas Adams, Samuel Kyle, and Nathan Worley. Together with a Historical Sketch of the Great Kentucky Revival] Reference

What I shall urge in his favour is simply this: the man whom opposite parties unite in praising must have supereminent merit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference

Washington in Greene, Napoleon perhaps none of marked and supereminent degree, because forsooth, he insisted upon being both in one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,] Reference

But the universal of all is the conjugial sphere, because this is the supereminent sphere of conservation of the created universe, 222.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love] Reference

Michelangelo's work shows none of these shortcomings; it is always technically faultness, instinct with passion, supereminent in force.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference

Yet it has not that all-embracing and supereminent importance which some, even of those who fight against it, are accustomed to believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society] Reference

Heroic kingship depended partly on divinely given prerogative, and partly on the possession of supereminent strength, courage, and wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society] Reference

Mighty was the marvel of Pall Mall, and profound was the pity of Park Lane, when this supereminent personage condescended to lower himself into a husband.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Novel — Complete] Reference

And here the supereminent power of Shakespeare, in displaying the manners, bent, and inclination of his characters, is pointed out to the reader's admiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author] Reference

His range of ideas is not extraordinary; but vision, imagination, and the passion which makes the imaginative power its instrument, were his in a supereminent degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference

We beseech you, supereminent Sir, condescend to visit our habitations, and partake of our cheer. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference

He replied in a hoarse tone of voice, "I am from below, where I am with two hundred in the most supereminent of all societies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love] Reference

Of this isle's rule is supereminent. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sixth Book] Reference

Truly this is generosity supereminent. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Associate Hermits] Reference

"Oh, ye messengers of supereminent light!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katherine's Sheaves] Reference