No matter who you were, how peerless, how incomparable in every way, she would rather die than let you marry him at his age.

Although this historical review is strictly illustrative, it is altogether incomparable for vividness and originality of presentation.

Oh, there is something incomparable about such workthe long steady pull of willing and healthy muscles, the mind undisturbed by any disquieting thought, the feeling of attainment through vigorous effort!

It enables us to comprehend the true nature of the man better than any biographical notice; and I mean to draw largely upon this source, so as gradually, by successive stipplings, as it were, to present a miniature portrait of one who was both admirable in private life and incomparable as an artist.

171; in splendour, iii. 400; breeding, good, iii. 54, n. 1; brother, his pretended, v. 295; 'buck, a young English,' v. 184, 261; buffoonery, incomparable at, ii. 262, n. 2; iii. 24, n. 2; bull, made a, iv.

Ferier, the incomparable of the Blue Devils, the wearer of all the French medals and the bearer of twenty-five wounds received in battlehe sneaked away, afraid and humble and sullen, to hide himself from the curious.