preternatural

• Filed under: Kids 8-11, Teens ; tweens, Eating ; nutrition, MealtimeMy oldest daughter is nine years old and like so many other moms of nine year olds, I spend a lot of my time trying to protect her from a culture that beckons her to prematurely abandon her American Girl dolls for a preternatural sexiness.
• At present their powers of eating and drinking, which are really something preternatural, are exerted to the very utmost. —  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10)
• Arculanus describes it as a preternatural elongation of the uvula which sometimes goes to such an extent as to make it resemble the tail of a mouse. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
• If his primitive state was his natural state, and if the political state is supernatural, preternatural, or subnatural, how passed he alone, by his own unaided powers, from the former to the latter? —  The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny
• Cowardice is ever found the mate of Cruelty: this stranger was doubtless regarded by the villains as a preternatural agent, she proved however, a mere mortal, frail and palpable as ourselves Bert. —  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

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