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Sentences ending with superiority

Everything that you see with your own eyes and touch with your own hand, you think infallible, and everything that escapes your observation you secretly regard as untrue, and pass by with a smile of superiority. [10]
Yet here its owner was perfectly at his ease, watching the scene before him with good- natured superiority. [11]
Holding the individual opinion that the appointment of a different gentleman would be better, I ask especial attention and consideration for his claims, and for the opinions expressed in his favor by those over whom I can claim no superiority. [7]
And now--" "Go on," Hermon interrupted with a smile of superiority. [10]
How could I ever judge Margaret fairly after such a crushing discovery of her superiority? [6]
He would not do so, though his friends would have greeted such scruples with a smile of superiority. [10]
She alone of all of them understood, and she found herself exulting in the superiority. [9]
The Scarabee had a right to his victory; a man does not give his life to the study of a single limited subject for nothing, and the moment we come across a first-class expert we begin to take a pride in his superiority. [6]

Sentences containing superiority two or more times

In Missouri a recognized superiority attached to any person who hailed from Old Virginia; and this superiority was exalted to supremacy when a person of such nativity could also prove descent from the First Families of that great commonwealth. [5]

More example sentences with the word superiority in them

And besides, with what deep loathing she herself had gone to the hospital at first, and how fully conscious of her own infinite superiority she had returned from amongst these depraved beings to the outdoor air. [10]
I think that we may fairly claim a superiority in our journals over the English dailies in our habit of making brief, pointed editorial paragraphs. [4]
This continued patronage was not a conscious expression of superiority on my part, but he did not seem to resent it. [9]
This circumstance, which was deeply lamented by his parents and tutors, was in fact, in the best opinions, an advantage to him; for it often happens that apparent superiority does us damage, and that from apparent defect springs the saving of our life. [10]
At length the visitor fell silent, his sense of superiority suddenly gone. [9]
There was something very enjoyable about his calm superiority to all the treasures of art. [4]
Perhaps it is true that he owed this to his physical strength, and that he will only keep it hereafter by intellectual superiority, by the dominance of mind. [4]
It was time to test the boasted superiority of masculine muscle. [6]
Despite my attempt to hide this sense of superiority they were swift to discover it; and perhaps it is to my credit as well as theirs that they did not resent it. [9]
He manifestly owes this immense superiority to his intellectual faculties, to his social habits, which lead him to aid and defend his fellows, and to his corporeal structure. [1]
Cook remarks that the superiority in personal appearance "which is observable in the erees or nobles in all the other islands (of the Pacific) is found in the Sandwich Islands"; but this may be chiefly due to their better food and manner of life. [1]
And by contrasting the powers and limitations of two such young persons as Gifted Hopkins and Cyprian Eveleth, we may better appreciate the nature of that divine inspiration which gives to poetry the superiority it claims over every other form of human expression. [6]
Momentarily he overcame the feeling of superiority with which I had entered his presence; neutralized the sense I had of being associated now with the higher powers which had put him where he was. [9]
They pointed out the beautiful work to each other; but, though most of them acknowledged the skill of the master who had painted it, many ascribed its superiority to the magical charm of the model. [10]
The thought, however, that she might fundamentally resemble her sister Lise, despite a fancied superiority, did occasionally shake her and bring about a revulsion against Ditmar. [9]
You prove your superiority over him in station, or rank, or fortune, and that's the end of it--he knuckles down. [5]
In my judgment such of us as have never fallen victims have been spared more by the absence of appetite than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have. [7]
It is certainly significant, therefore, when the priestesses and devotees of mental superiority there turn upon it and rend it, when they are heartily tired of the whole literary business. [4]
With affectionate persuasion she might be won over to anything, but Selene, when ever she remonstrated with her, made her feel her superiority over herself, acquired from her care of the family and her maternal character. [10]
In the garden she had been struck by the superiority of a nature which set at naught what had been, to some smaller spirits, a difficult situation. [9]
Pardon these polysyllabic reflections, Beloved, but I never contemplate these dear fellow-creatures of ours without a delicious sense of superiority to them and to all arrested embryos of intelligence, in which I have no doubt you heartily sympathize with me. [6]
Science,' May 1868, p. 9) says that the American deer fight with their fore-feet, after "the question of superiority has been once settled and acknowledged in the herd. [1]
They have a noble rivalry, each honoring the other, and it would take a great deal of weighing one point of superiority against another to call either of them the first, except in its claim to antiquity. [6]
One of superiority, no doubt, but still a smile. [9]
It may be more difficult to maintain simplicity of living with a great fortune than in poverty, but simplicity of spirit--that is, superiority of soul to circumstance--is possible in any condition. [4]
Being the highest magistrates in all judicial and educational matters, and in everything relating to the moral police of the country, the Ephori soon found means to assert their superiority, and on most occasions over that of the kings themselves. [10]
They couldn't help looking down on the summer boarders, any more than cottagers at other places can help a feeling of superiority to people in hotels. [4]
Mademoiselle Bourienne had long been waiting for a Russian prince who, able to appreciate at a glance her superiority to the plain, badly dressed, ungainly Russian princesses, would fall in love with her and carry her off; and here at last was a Russian prince. [2]
In fact, the latter would long since have challenged his former friend had he not been so conscious of his own superiority, and shrunk from the thought of bringing fresh sorrow upon Ursula and her parents, whom he still remembered with friendly regard. [10]
I tried to keep my mind fixed upon the fact of man's superiority to Nature; his ability to dominate and outwit her. [4]
He gathered every incident of the surroundings, and talked to the servants freely, softly, and easily, yet with a superiority, which suddenly was imposed in the case of the huntsman at the kennels--for the Whipshire hounds were here. [11]
Mr. Egger showed his superiority by a total lack of curiosity about any other world. [4]
The captains of his own station resented his assumptions of superiority, and while he did not try to win them by an affectation of comradeship, he probably repelled those of better breeding by a swaggering manner. [4]
Reflection doubtless warned him that it would be a dangerous venture to enter the same life-boat with this woman, yet how bewitchingly beautiful she had seemed to him in her proud superiority, in the agitation of soul aroused by the yearning for a fairer fate! [10]
She saw that her plot was detected by the man whose esteem she most valued, and a loving woman is glad to recognize the superiority of her lover. [10]
Was this what he had been brought to-the youth who only a few days ago had made them all feel conscious of the superiority of his brilliant mind! [10]
The smile had had in it, to be sure, nothing of conscious superiority, but it had been utterly inexplicable to Hilary Vane. [9]
I was a curious mixture of self-confidence and self-depreciation, and never had his superiority seemed more patent than now. [9]
Philip would have confessed that he was fond of nature, and fancied there was a sort of superiority in his attitude towards it to that of his companion, who was merely interested in plants-just a botanist. [4]
The man's firm character had always gone against the gemcutter's surly, capricious nature; and it was no little satisfaction to him to let him feel his superiority, and boast before him of the apparent good luck that had befallen the artist's family. [10]
They drew their chairs closer, some wearing that smile of superiority which to us is the Englishman's most maddening trait. [9]
None could better carry that high, neutral look of social superiority than she. [11]
Then, when people began to call, she had a pleasure, a superiority, in saying that it was a furnished apartment, and in disclaiming all responsibility for the upholstery and decoration. [8]
In one faculty, at least, there can be no dispute of the gentleman's superiority over me and most other men, and that is, the faculty of entangling a subject, so that neither himself, or any other man, can find head or tail to it. [7]
Such a man as this he had never met, never had he bowed with such full consent before the superiority and sovereign power of another mind. [10]
Its amusing audacity and complacent superiority, the mystery hanging about its writers, its affectation of indifference to praise or profit, its fearless criticism, lively wit, and irresponsible humor, piqued, puzzled, and delighted the town. [4]
Was it not an assumption of Northern superiority, to be resented? [9]
Besides this her air of superiority, and her divine beauty turn the heads of our poor household officers. [10]
Pothinus, Theodotus, and Achillas hated her because she saw their failings and made them feel the superiority of her intellect. [10]
There is no absolute or essential superiority on the one side, or absolute or essential inferiority on the other side. [4]
I had gained a sense of superiority, and I was quite indifferent to Cousin Robert's opinion of Mr. Watling, of modern lawyers in general. [9]

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