Superstitions

Examples

• They had their undercurrent of fables and superstitions, their phases of fear and abjection and sacrificial fury. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But both were, in those ignorant and superstitions times, easily credited as proofs of guilt. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I thought her too intelligent to be the slave of such absurd superstitions. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• This is a kind of superstitious practice in civil laws, and in the laws of nature, resembling the Roman catholic superstitions in religion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• There, I don't believe in old superstitions, but I'll do it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In spite of all experience they cling desperately to these superstitions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Presently the dissensions of the schools let in the superstitions and prejudices of the city mob to scholastic affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If you want to impose a taboo upon a whole community, you must do it autocratically, you must make it part of the prevailing superstitions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Every one has his superstitions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That is one of the great American superstitions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There was to be no clinging to tawdry superstitions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That is but one of the superstitions which Issus has foisted upon a credulous humanity. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

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