When she thought of superlatives, she thought of him.

" Grace looked vexed, but she loved her cousin too sincerely to be angry, A secret suspicion that Eve was right, too, came in aid of her affection, and while her little foot moved, she maintained her good- nature, a task not always attainable for those who believe that their own "superlatives" scarcely reach to other people's "positives."

She could think upon him only in superlatives.

To describe Chicago, one would need all the superlatives set in a row.

But superlatives often have a value in inverse ratio to their intention.

Is it not youth's privilege to fling enthusiasm and superlatives to the wind and to deal in glorious arrogance?

"Between Superlatives and following Names, OF, by Grammatick Right, a Station claims.

The assumption of two comparatives and two superlatives, is not only contrary to the universal practice of the teachers of grammar; but there is this conclusive argument against itthat the regular method of comparison has no degrees of diminution, and the form which has such degrees, is no inflection of the adjective.

These, like other superlatives, admit of a looser application, and may possibly include more than one thing at the beginning or at the end of a series: as, "The last years of man are often helpless, like the first."

14.Hyperboles are very commonly expressed by comparatives or superlatives; as, "My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins."1

10.The definite article is often prefixed to comparatives and superlatives; and its effect is, as Murray observes, (in the words of Lowth,) "to mark the degree the more strongly, and to define it the more precisely: as, 'The more I examine it, the better I like it.'

NOTE VII.Comparative terminations, and adverbs of degree, should not be applied to adjectives that are not susceptible of comparison; and all double comparatives and double superlatives should be avoided: as, "So universal a complaint:" say rather, "So general.

UNDER NOTE V.OF SUPERLATIVES.

"Words ending with y, preceded by a consonant, form the plurals of nouns, the persons of verbs, verbal nouns, past participles, comparatives and superlatives, by changing y into i."Walker's Rhyming Dict., p. viii; Murray's Gram., 23; Merchant's Murray, 13; Fisk's, 44; Kirkham's, 23; Greenleaf's, 20; Wright's Gram., 28; et al.

"Between superlatives and following names, Of, by grammatic right, a station claims.

Intensive nature of comparatives and superlatives, A. MURR.

Double superlatives, to be avoided.

before what adjectives, required distinctive use of ("The Psalmist") as relating to comparatives and superlatives used for poss. pron. repetition of, how avoided derivation of, from Sax. pronunc.

Double comparatives and double superlatives, such as, "The more serener spirit,""The most straitest sect,"are noticed by Latham and Child, in their syntax, as expressions which "we occasionally find, even in good writers," and are truly stated to be "pleonastic;" but, forbearing to censure them as errors, these critics seem rather to justify them as pleonasms allowable.

Surpassing, superior, excellent; used to form superlatives.

He was described in the superlatives that the Spanish language possesses abundantly; everything from the horse he rode to the solid braid on his sombrero was described in the same strain.

Like the French, they are enchanted, they are desolate, because you have got or have not got a shoestring or a wafer you happen to wantnot perceiving that superlatives are diminutives and weaken....

Beware of using "any" or "other" with superlatives followed by "of.

Any, with comparatives and superlatives, 129.

Other, with comparatives and superlatives, 129.