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  • My nephews in Sublimity and LaPine are polite but probably not as pressed as your neighbors.

    The Cowboys are in town... 1919

  • Sublimity is the characteristic of this western world; the loftiness of the mountains, the grandeur of the lakes and rivers, the majesty of the rocks shaded with a picturesque variety of beautiful trees and shrubs, and crowned with the noblest of the offspring of the forest, which form the banks of the latter, are as much beyond the power of fancy as that of description: a landscape-painter might here expand his imagination, and find ideas which he will seek in vain in our comparatively little world.

    The History of Emily Montague 1769

  • The former, he always termed Sublimity Pitt, and the latter.

    Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont Hardy, Francis, 1751-1812 1812

  • The title is handy, but quite misleading, unless you remember that by 'Sublimity' Longinus meant, as he expressly defines it, 'a certain distinction and excellence in speech. '

    On The Art of Reading Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Rychard said cities such as Sublimity, which does not get the foot or vehicle traffic of larger cities, need to start thinking outside of the box.

    statesmanjournal.com - Top Stories 2010

  • Binocular faces a maximum of five rivals as Sublimity will not be risked on such soft ground.

    Champion hurdler Binocular in excellent form ahead of comeback race Chris Cook at Lambourn 2010

  • Her most recent publication is an article titled Mont Blanc and the Sublimity of

    About This Volume 2007

  • Sublimity is mixed with banality; joy with suffering; kindness with cruelty; beauty with ugliness.

    Archive 2008-05-01 James Gurney 2008

  • Sublimity was replaced by a language resembling what the scholar Dan Pagis characterized as "a tapestry of medieval life, both generally and specially Jewish."

    The Lost Jewish Culture Bloom, Harold 2007

  • The second mode of change actually has two facets: Catastrophe and Sublimity, two sides of the same coin.

    notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

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