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Sentences ending with superior

Not a dozen yards from where we camped was a rose-tree-think of it, Belgard, a rose-tree on a rag-tag island of Lake Superior! [11]
He understood how to bridle passion far better than the uncle who was so greatly his superior. [10]
He well knew that Colonel Carvel would not descend to ask an inferior concerning the conduct of a superior. [9]
Modify it to suit yourself, and my lads shall still be superior. [5]
He lacked the sharp spurring to do better and better, the censure of a master, who was greatly his superior. [10]
That is to say, she met everywhere civilizations old and technically her superior. [4]
Why was the Russian army--which with inferior forces had withstood the enemy in full strength at Borodino--defeated at Krasnoe and the Berezina by the disorganized crowds of the French when it was numerically superior? [2]
As I came quickly through the hall, and round the corner where stood Gabord, I saw a soldier talking with the Mother Superior. [11]
On all common occasions Euthymia looked up to her friend as her superior. [6]
There was something more refined than powerful in his appearance, but he had a keen, kindly eye, and a manner unmistakably superior. [11]

Short sentences using superior

He is superior to convictions. [11]

Sentences containing superior two or more times

I was a superior man, but I have lived as a small man these many days; and now, behold, I am drawing near to my end as a superior man. [11]
Can the French be so enormously superior to us that when we had surrounded them with superior forces we could not beat them? [2]

More example sentences with the word superior in them

Smith was a young man of about twenty-eight, vain and no doubt somewhat "bumptious," and it is easy to believe that Wingfield and the others who felt his superior force and realized his experience, honestly suspected him of designs against the expedition. [4]
He was progressing, you see--the moral fear of shame had risen superior to the physical fear of harm. [5]
At 11.40 A.M. yesterday General Rosecrans telegraphed from Chattanooga: "We hold this point, and I cannot be dislodged except by very superior numbers and after a great battle. [7]
To offer resistance would have been madness, for even Hermon perceived, by the loud clanking of weapons around them, the greatly superior power of the enemy, and they were acting by the orders of the King. [10]
And the swiftness with which the petition was granted equalled its ardor; for the eagle had fallen and lowered its pinions beneath the superior might of the lion. [10]
I received them with the deference due a superior, and obeyed them without comment. [5]
Demetrius watched it with less anxiety; he knew that his Arabs were far superior to the Egyptian breed in staying power, and they also had the advantage of having had a longer rest. [10]
The Cossack officers wished to take advantage of this chance to capture some horses, but one of the superior officers, who was acquainted with the higher authorities, reported the incident to a general on the staff. [2]
Therefore, on the whole, if he were a superior fellow, incapable of mistaking it for personal conceit, I think I would let out the fact of the real American feeling about Old-World folks. [6]
The son; however, who was not of age, was more unworldly and sanctimonious than his father; he always addressed his parent as "Brother Plum," and bore himself, altogether in such a superior manner that Ruth longed to put bent pins in his chair. [5]
The quickness with which a woman can pull herself together under such circumstances is testimony to her superior fibre. [4]
I learned this when Caesar was prisoned by a greatly superior force within this very palace, his ships burned, his supply of water cut off. [10]
If the latter were not greatly my superior, and I could exert my whole strength to clasp him to me, he was lost. [10]
Scipio's patrician blood was wont to rise in the presence of those whom he deemed outside the pale of good society, and I fear he ushered Mr. Fairbrother to the street with little of that superior manner he used to the first families. [9]
The first prophet was the high-priest of the House of Seti, and at the same time the superior of all the thousands of upper and under servants of the divinities which belonged to the City of the Dead of Thebes. [10]
But if Garcilasso was inferior to him in power, he was superior in agility; many of his blows he parried; others he received upon his Flemish shield, which was proof against the Damascus blade. [4]
The woman's business was evidently a paying one; the interior of her house was conspicuously superior to the wretched hovels which surrounded it, in the poorest and most squalid part of the town. [10]
Surrounded as he was by servile favorites, whose superior he was in gifts and intellect, what had here come under his notice seemed to interest him above measure. [10]
The confinement told upon their bodies and their spirits; still, they were superior men, and they made the best that was to be made of the circumstances. [5]
The longer the unsuccessful efforts lasted, the more evident became the superior smile on Ulrich's lips, the faster his heart throbbed. [10]
Our enormous forces, undoubtedly superior to Napoleon's, were concentrated in one place, the troops inspired by the Emperors' presence were eager for action. [2]
They could not understand how he, so much their superior in bodily presence, in air and manner, could speak of the man who employed him in any other way than as "Kirkwood," without even demeaning himself so far as to prefix a "Mr." to it. [6]
Thus, man has ultimately become superior to woman. [1]
Those who had traveled and seen the ostentation of cities smiled a superior smile at the curiosity and wonder exhibited, but even those who had never seen the like were cautious about letting their surprise appear. [4]
I would try to win my uncle, but there are others superior to him. [10]
This impartial testimony to the superior qualities of the establishment and its head attracted a number of applicants for admission, and a couple of new boarders made a brief appearance at the table. [6]
He was superior to the situation, though it was apparent in his pale face and rigid manner that he had been struck hard. [11]
The Hebrews seemed to the commander too superior a force to fight, but duty required him to hold the fort until the arrival of the reinforcements he had requested. [10]
When I started to the chapel, the populace uncovered and fell back reverently to make a wide way for me, as if I had been some kind of a superior being--and I was. [5]
I could afford to take a superior attitude in regard to one who was destined always to be dramatic. [9]
Handsome, strong, superior to other men, he had always appeared. [10]
If I wanted to meet his cunning with cunning I should get the worst of it, for he is far superior to me in intrigue. [10]
Think how superior to it earth would be, with its variety of types and faces and ages, and the enlivening attrition of the myriad interests that come into pleasant collision in such a variegated society. [5]
This silent homage to his superior abilities, no less than a sense of the power with which the dwarf's quick perception had already invested him, inclined the young man towards that ugly worthy, and determined him to profit by his aid. [12]
He carried close to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. [2]
It may come to him in the form of self-reproach that he falls so far short of the superior being who has been so long the object of his contemplation. [6]
He went up to her, shaking his head, and said in the superior tone of a sage rebuking thoughtlessness: "Like all the rest of them--I repeat it. [10]
She had yet to grasp the fact that, being her son's wife, she must have, therefore, a position in the house, exercising a certain authority over the servants, who, to Mrs. Armour, at first seemed of superior stuff. [11]
I was able to bear their reproaches with the superior good nature that springs from success, to point out why the American tradition to which they so fatuously clung was a things of the past. [9]
Nature is apt to be belittled by this sort of display, but the noble dignity of the vast arch of stone was superior to this trifling, and even had a sort of mystery added to its imposing grandeur. [4]
Her ambition was to appear simple and superior to all worldly vanities; still, all she wore must be rich and costly, for she was here to do honor to her creed. [10]
I come now to a mental detail wherein the ant is a long way the superior of any human being. [5]
I felt at times rebuked by her superior delicacy and purity, and as if I was a coarse, unworthy being in comparison. [4]
Most eldest sons, though they may be weak in body or mind, marry, whilst the younger sons, however superior in these respects, do not so generally marry. [1]
The name of this King might have suggested that of Virginia as the title of the new possession, but for the superior claim of the Virgin Queen. [4]
A foreigner of this character they had never before seen, with coat buttoned up like an Egyptian official in the presence of his superior, and this wide, droll hat on his head. [11]
The result in this case was the usual one when the weaker party succeeds in maintaining itself against the superior power of the stronger. [10]
He alleges that they were constrained by superior force to enter into treaties with the insurgents, and that the United States neglected to furnish the protection which their treaty stipulations required. [7]
And inasmuch as they cannot so live while they do remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior. [7]
The superior had therefore been unable to devote herself to Paula till this portable property had been under review. [10]
As a rule, there is little gain, either in instruction or in elevation of character, if the teacher is not the superior of the taught. [4]
To his mind there came on the instant the memory of a Rocky Mountain lioness that he had seen caged years before; lithe, watchful, nervously powerful, superior to its surroundings, yet mastered by those surroundings--the trick of a lock, not a trick of strength. [11]
They never lose themselves in any cause; they never heartily praise any man or woman or book; they are superior to all tides of feeling and all outbursts of passion. [4]
I consider that them effects is on account of the superior refragability, as you may say, of the sun's diramic combination with the lymphatic forces of the perihelion of Jubiter. [5]
Besides, even if the naval battle were really lost, the powerful army, which is far superior to Octavianus's forces, still remains. [10]
And you're not the marrying kind," she added, with the superior knowledge of eighteen. [9]
As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. [7]
Our eminent classmate, the late Professor Benjamin Peirce, showed by numerical comparison that the men of superior ability outlasted the average of their fellow-graduates. [6]
The superior of the institution, Ameni, had been for three days in Thebes, and was expected to return to-day. [10]
We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. [7]
But pity, concession, the condescension of a superior morality, were impossible to her proud mind. [11]
While still under the ban of uncleanness she had visited the temple of Hathor, and had defiled it by her presence; and the stern Superior of the City of the Dead was in the right--that Bek-en-Chunsu himself admitted--in closing the western shore against her. [10]
In other instances the "nub" or moral of the burlesque--if its object be to enforce a truth--escapes notice in the superior glare of something in the body of the burlesque itself. [5]
Do you know that you feel a little superior to every man who makes you laugh, whether by making faces or verses? [6]
I only wish that the thing I am to construct up there may turn out as good a statue as this savory cylinder--now fast disappearing--was a superior and admirable sausage. [10]
I merely knew that she was my superior in fineness of mind, in the delicacy and subtlety of her intellect, but to fully measure her I was not competent. [5]
Nell could see that she raised her dark eyes to the face of her superior, and that their expression, and that of her whole attitude for the instant, was one of mute but most touching appeal against this ungenerous usage. [12]
The superior numbers that pressed upon you may excuse you. [10]
It was like that of some strong fate, superior to all influences of sorrow, shame, or death. [11]
Having assured them that he had had no thought of helping them, but only of obeying his superior officers, he disappeared into the night, and the freedman lifted Melissa in his strong arms and carried her down to Zeno's boat, which was waiting for them. [10]
It is more than human to be so placidly certain about things, and so finely superior, and so airily content with one's performance. [5]
He is now supporting himself in his old age, by the assistance which his superior knowledge enables him to render the Chaldoeans in their astronomical observations from the tower of Bel. [10]
Our force is superior, yet the foe is pressing unimpeded into the midst of the army. [10]
The sufferer rose superior to the terrors of the earthquake, and said to his wife: "Now that is something like! [5]
Would he be superior to the lure of gold? [11]
We are measurably superior to the French in some things, but they are immeasurably our betters in others. [5]
Our villages are superior to German villages in more merits, excellences, conveniences, and privileges than I can enumerate, but the hotels do not belong in the list. [5]
And against what superior power, what hatred he contended! [10]
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. [7]
Li Choo, the superior man, is dead," he protested. [11]
Yet how much superior is our comedy of to-day? [4]
But Gaston was superior in a grand way. [11]
His was the superior energy, however, for he went straight to the Wide West, instead of turning aside as I had done--and he arrived there about five or ten minutes too late! [5]
Disloyalty before unsuspected suddenly became bold, and treason astonished the world by bringing at once into the field military forces superior in number to the standing army of the United States. [7]
After a youth spent in splendour she had retired to the cloister as superior, and there she now lay unveiled, rigid, and yellow, although every feature had retained the form it had in death. [10]
I thought that sounded mighty pretty, and paused a moment to pat myself on the back, as is my wont when I say something that I think of superior quality. [6]
Did not the Son of Heaven say that we speak of the end of a superior man, but we speak of the death of a small man? [11]
There were fine soldiers in plenty in Rome, and the ship-builder's son was in no particular superior to a hundred others; but such a man as Marcus she had never before seen--there could hardly be such another in the world. [10]
It has been so from the first, though from the first she has been thwarted by the accidental superior strength of man. [4]
It had the slight flavour of the superior and the paternal. [11]
To me the situation was almost inexplicable; but the woman herself was inexplicable: at this moment the evil genius of us all, at that doing us all a kind of crude, superior justice. [11]
A new nursery, Sir, with Lake Superior and Huron and all the rest of 'em for wash-basins! [6]
She felt that she was very superior to Hermas, and her position was now too grave a one for her to feel inclined to play any more. [10]
She read, or she thought she read in his eyes, in his smile, the superior spirit condescending to magnanimity, to compassion; and her whole nature was instantly up in arms. [11]
Nothing more clearly separates a vulgar from a superior mind, than the confusion in the first between the little that it truly knows, on the one hand, and what it half knows and what it thinks it knows on the other. [3]
All its inhabitants seemed highly favored, dwelling in ease and surrounded by superior advantages. [5]
It did not seem incongruous to Iberville and Gering to walk side by side; theirs was a superior kind of hate. [11]
So here, you see, a lower court was impudently preparing to try and redecide a cause which had already been decided by its superior, a court of higher authority. [5]
Heinrich Brugsch, my second teacher, was far superior to Lepsius as a decipherer and investigator of the various stages of the ancient Egyptian languages. [10]
I venture to say the monarch was a great deal more humble than the follower, who pretended that his master was superior to such trifling facts as the revolution of the planet. [6]

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