Supreme

Examples

• Instead of it, a new supreme court of judicature was established, consisting of a chief justice and three judges, to be appointed by the crown. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Start anywhere, with an orthodox socialist and he will lead you to this supreme economic situation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You above everybody can't get away from the fact that love, for instance, is the supreme thing, in space as well as on earth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Then with a grand effort she rallied from the shock, and a supreme astonishment and indignation chased every other expression from her features. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The people should be supreme, yes, its will should be the law of the land. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I am not afraid of Justinian, said Crispin, with supreme contempt. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Oh, the supreme, splendid confidence of youth! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The forty-seventh proposition of the first book of Euclid was regarded as one of the supreme triumphs of the human mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This agency of the supreme Being we know to have been asserted by [As father Malebranche and other Cartesians. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The idea of a Supreme Being who watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is essentially the idea of the people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• O supreme Death! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He induced the Convention to decree that France believed in a Supreme Being, and in that comforting doctrine, the immortality of the soul. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Now man might return to the stage-coach if that seemed to him the supreme goal of all his effort, just as anyone can follow Chesterton's advice to turn back the hands of the clock if he pleases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• No foreign god shall be supreme in our realMs.. Plato. The Republic.
• The American college student has the gravity and mental habits of a Supreme Court judge; his wild oats are rarely spiritual; the critical, analytical habit of mind is distrusted. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The supreme task before men at the present time is political education. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Will you not accompany us in one supreme effort to escape? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• My guardian threw his supplicant off with supreme indifference, and left him dancing on the pavement as if it were red hot. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The age of iron is not yet supreme, For youth still throbs in the old veins of Mother Earth, wan and weary with sorrowful centuries. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The People is supreme. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I stand here on a supreme moral elevation, and I loftily assert her accurate performance of her conjugal duties. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Towards the end of the long day of suffering this abandoned leader roused himself to one supreme effort, cried out with a loud voice, My God! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British female reigns supreme. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Jean-Jacques is in fact a supreme case--perhaps even a slight caricature--of the way in which formal creeds bolster up passionate wants. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Once a party can induce the country to see its issue as supreme the greater part of its task is done. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In 1812 a great mass of armies, amounting altogether to 600,000 men, began to move towards Russia under the supreme command of the new emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Morally speaking, I am what you call an agnostic, though truly I believe in a supreme power. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He believed not in a god familiar to men, but in a certain Supreme Being, and that Rousseau was his prophet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It might be objected, he says, that Nature is sufficient unto itself; but universal laws of the action of matter serve the plan of the Supreme Wisdom. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The battle was fought through the lower courts, through the Supreme Court, and in Congress. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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