Marie de Médicis had imported the Italian grace and wit,Anne of Austria the Spanish courtesy and romance; the Hôtel de Rambouillet had united the two, and introduced the genre précieux, or stately style, which was superb in its origin, and dwindled to absurdity in the hands of Mlle. de Scudéry and her valets, before Molière smiled it away forever.

She was never so superb as then, and never so threatening in her scowling beauty.

Of the last-mentioned improvement our engraving is a mere vignette, but it deserves to rank among the most superb of those additions.

Floracita, though strikingly handsome, was of a model less superb than her elder sister.

"The plantations within these limits," he said, "are superb beyond description....

Physically superb at all times because nature had richly gifted her, now she was magnificent.

I knew this Hamlet both waysas an actress from the stage, and as an actress putting away her profession for the time as one of the audienceand both ways it was superb to me.

Mr. Raleigh joined Helen Heath and his cousin in the hall; Capua, superb with the importance of his commission, sought another entrance.