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Whether the destiny was evil or good did not paramountly interest her.

From Hilda Lessways by Bennett, Arnold

What was at that time even more cheering to MacDowell, who had not yet come to regard himself as paramountly a composer, was Liszt's praise of his piano playing.

From Edward MacDowell by Gilman, Lawrence

Floyd Dell says it is paramountly a medium for entertainment, and that it is "not so much a clearing house of new ideas as of new people"!

From Greenwich Village by Cram, Allan G. (Allan Gilbert)

He thought of Essie Scofield, of all that she paramountly held and expressed, with a reluctance that had lately, almost within the past week, grown to resemble resentment, if not actual irritation.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph

One is, indeed, almost tempted to say that he is paramountly a poet, to whom the supplementary gift of musical speech has been extravagantly vouchsafed.

From Edward MacDowell by Gilman, Lawrence