Superstitious

Examples

• Legree, like most godless and cruel men, was superstitious. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He fell back a few steps, and looked at me with an expression of compassionate curiosity, tempered by superstitious awe. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• As history goes on the Greeks became more religious and superstitious as the faiths of the conquered welled up from below. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That is why the opposition generated will seem superstitious to the next generation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• 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.
• Protestants are rarely superstitious; these morbid fancies will not beset _you? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I conceive that you ignorantly worship; in all things you appear to me too superstitious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• My dear, you are surely not superstitious? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He posed as a king, but his ruling passion was that common obsession of our kind, the pursuit of women, tempered by a superstitious fear of hell. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Such a thing was unheard of, and it clouded their superstitious minds with all manner of vague fears. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• But I confess I am almost superstitious in my ideas about business. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It is really difficult to believe one’s own senses, and no wonder that it inspires the superstitious with a feeling of awe. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• No more is needed to completely shatter the last remnant of my superstitious belief in the divinity of Issus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• On September 3rd, 1658, Cromwell died in the midst of a great storm that did not fail to impress the superstitious. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Christ knew how to preach to these simple, superstitious, disease-tortured creatures: He healed the sick. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There was no effective prohibition of superstitious practices, spirit raising, incantations, prostrations, and supplementary worships. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I believe I am superstitious. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Thirdly, because Anastatia is a little superstitious on the subject and feels averse to my giving away anybody until baby is old enough to be married. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I am not superstitious; I have read a heap of books in my time; I am a scholar in my own way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They offered us only the most courteous treatment, but were evidently bound by their superstitious belief in the doctrine of Dor and Iss and Korus. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The superstitious Samaritans have always been afraid to hunt for it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• My bailiff (a superstitious idiot) says he is quite sure the lake has a curse on it, like the Dead Sea. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Then Mbonga emerged, a look of mingled wrath and superstitious fear writ upon his hideous countenance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• And she was superstitious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Never, nor am I naturally superstitious or weak. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The Babylonian records of med icine like those of astronomy reveal the prevalence of many superstitious beliefs. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The dropping of the thing out of the open sky was a miracle well aimed to work upon their superstitious fears. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

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