supremeness

I could have screamed, in the supremeness of my fear; and then, in the very moment of my extremity and despair,

The House on the Borderland 2007

Indeed, it may be asserted without hesitation that no event is so terribly well adapted to inspire the supremeness of bodily and mental distress as is premature inhumation.

Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

Here is an example of that simple supremeness that is at once a witness to itself.

The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

Now, never losing sight of the object supremeness, or perfection, at all points, I asked myself—“Of all melancholy topics, what, according to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy?

The Philosophy of Composition 1914

I could have screamed, in the supremeness of my fear; and then, in the very moment of my extremity and despair, I became conscious that I was looking down upon the arena, from a rapidly-increasing height.

The House on the Borderland: Chapter 3 1908

They were marching with a careless swaggeringness that showed how little they suspected the horrible doom which was about to teach them England's might and supremeness.

The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901

They were marching with a careless swaggeringness that showed how little they suspected the horrible doom which was about to teach them England's might and supremeness.

The Wouldbegoods 1891

I firmly believed that no incident ever occurring in the course of human events is more adapted to inspire the supremeness of mental and bodily distress than a case like our own, of living inhumation.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

It may be asserted, without hesitation, that no event is so terribly well adapted to inspire the supremeness of bodily and of mental distress, as is burial before death.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

It is wrong to use this idea of supremeness to legitimize hate and wrong doings.

Technician RSS 2010