Example Sentences

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He must feel that he is nothing of himself, that his existence, his beginning, his everlasting life are rooted in the superearthly and incomprehensible.

From Memories A Story of German Love by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

Did he regret what he had lost through his perpetual seeking and never or ever finding, through this earthly and superearthly flitting from craving to pleasure and from pleasure back to craving once more?

From Casanova's Homecoming by Paul, Cedar

Who has better understood this earthly beauty than Michel Angelo?—but he understood it, because it was to him a reflection of superearthly beauty.

From Memories A Story of German Love by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

By a sheer and unashamed reliance on her command of style, Miss Garden works that miracle, transfigures Massenet into something superearthly, overpowering.

From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl

Fox was no literary oracle, and his opinion is here cited only as evidence that the superearthly is an acknowledged element in the epopee.

From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)