Supernatural, preternatural, superhuman, miraculous.

Nor, indeed, did I know until afterward, when I learned that Brightson, coming down from the roof and taking in our peril at a glance, had caught up a great log from the fireplace in the upper hall, where it was awaiting the winter lighting, and, with a strength little short of superhuman, had hurled it down upon the savages.

A human figureor it might be superhuman, for his mien seemed more than mortallifted from the crag, to which he hung suspended by massy gyves and rivets, eyes mournful with the presentiment of pain.

As the Captain said this, Mr. Wyatt, in fact, sprang from the boat, and, as we were yet in the lee of the wreck, succeeded, by almost superhuman exertion, in getting hold of a rope which hung from the fore-chains.

Pa suddenly seemed to be endowed with superhuman strength, for he drew himself up on the limb and raised the dog from the ground, and all the pack came around the tree and set up a howl that scared pa so the perspiration rolled off him, and he had a chill so he shook like the ague.

Such a nature, at the same time, would be the very one most capable, under the influencecall it boldly, inspirationof a great and patriotic cause, of great dangers and great purposes; capable, I say, at moments, of accesses of almost superhuman energy, which he ascribed, and most rightly, to the inspiration of God.

And here, Adam gave vent to his great laugh which necessitated an almost superhuman exertion of strength to keep the table from slipping from its precarious perch.

I will be superhuman!

He reached over, grasped the man by his shoulders, and with superhuman effort drew him up to the shelf and across the body of the mule.

If the strong personality of the manwith all that dauntless bravery, that unerring sagacity, that trenchant tonguestill after two thousand years fascinates attention, if we are forced to own that for sheer power of will and intellect he stands in the very foremost rank of men, yet we feel also that in the case of such superhuman wickedness tyrannicide would, if it ever could, cease to be a crime.

But before Frank could answer, Heale had broken forth into loud praises of him, setting forth how the stranger owed his life entirely to his superhuman strength and courage.

Even the colossal fabrics of Ancient Egypt dwindle before this superhuman masonry.

There, no longer rashly overtasking Powers impaired by superhuman strain, But amid exotic foliage basking, He will rest his monumental brain, Till refreshed, dæmonic and defiant, Clad in dazzling amaranthine sheen, He emerges like a godlike giant Once again to dominate the scene.

Like "The Toilers of the Sea," its immediate predecessor, the main theme of the story is human heroism, confronted with the superhuman tyranny of blind chance.

And now again he held counsel with himself, and the energies of his mind seem almost superhuman; he had been five hours in the water, and here was something to hold on by; he could have even got upon the buoy, and some vessel might come near to pick him up, and the question was, could he yet hold out four miles?

" General Lyautey had framed his answer in a moment of patriotic exaltation, when the soul of every Frenchman was strung up to a superhuman pitch.

Their exquisite tombs at Marrakech commemorate in courtly language the superhuman virtues of a series of rulers whose debaucheries and vices were usually cut short by assassination.

I cannot better indicate the meaning of the word Jossakeed than to say that it is a person who makes oracular responses from a close lodge of peculiar construction, where the inmate is supposed to be surrounded by superhuman influences, which impart the power of looking into futurity.

Its Officers are accustomed to handle them with superhuman love and patience, as well as with a tact and adroitness such as has often elicited the admiration and praise of those who have no sympathy with our creed or ways of work.

With superhuman energy, she ransacked the house and gathered the most valuable articles.

The effect upon him was of something superhuman.

We do not claim for her any superhuman exemption from girlish feelings.

From one of these, the phantom, rising as they advanced nearer, suddenly caught a trumpet, and blowing through it a blast of superhuman strength, plunged into the Rubiconpassed to the other bankand disappeared in the dusky twilight of the dawn.

Do thou tell me how the encounter took place between the Rakshasa and Bhimasena!' "Vidura said, 'Listen to the story of that feat of Bhimasena of superhuman achievements!

Now the whole course of events, at least all since Bull Run, seems clear if I can but knowor even believethat any man has such superhuman power.