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Example sentences for "much superior"

  • Why then, when they rais'd their Siege, did not they march back into the Heart of Spain, with their so much superior Army?

  • Those Orders were pursu'd; nevertheless, I must confess, it was beyond the Reach of my little Reason to account for our so long Stay in the Sight of an Army so much superior to ours.

  • It had been a bitter disappointment to the Southern people, who expected to see Lee take Baltimore and Philadelphia, but the army itself was full of pride over its achievement in beating off numbers so much superior.

  • It was upon this forest that Harry looked, and he wondered, as many officers much older and much higher in rank than he wondered, that Hooker, with forces so much superior, should draw back into its shades.

  • Their line is so long and they are so much superior in numbers that we can't guard all the river.

  • It is more than probable that the Fasees learned the art of manufacturing gold thread from the Egyptians: it is much superior to that which is imported into Barbary from Marseilles.

  • Captain Cooper ably executed his orders, alarming and confining to the fortification around the town a much superior force of the enemy.

  • In our front was a much superior force of Federal cavalry--to go forward would provoke an engagement, and it could only result in severe and bloody defeat.

  • There were other personal insults which raised the indignation of the Welsh, and made them determine rather to encounter a force which they had already experienced to be so much superior, than to bear oppression from the haughty victors.

  • Edward at last, roused from his lethargy, had marched an army into Scotland, and Robert, determined not to risk too much against an enemy so much superior, retired again into the mountains.

  • If new mines were discovered, as much superior to those of Potosi, as they were superior to those of Europe, the value of silver might be so much degraded as to render even the mines of Potosi not worth the working.

  • The wages of goldsmiths and jewellers are everywhere superior to those of many other workmen, not only of equal, but of much superior ingenuity, on account of the precious materials with which they are entrusted.

  • Portal observes, that though some have regarded Berenger as the restorer of the science of anatomy, it is hard to strip one so much superior to him as Vesalius of that honour.

  • For this reason I choose this vehicle for a standard, in preference to a mere raft, to which, imperfect as it is, it is so much superior.

  • It is now a point fully ascertained, that thunder and lightning are the electric snap and spark, as much superior to our puny imitations as we can conceive from the immense extent of the instruments in the hands of Nature.

  • Why, do not you look upon yourself as much superior to your black servants; and have I not often heard you express great contempt for them?

  • How can a parcel of wretched ignorant savages despise men that are so much superior to themselves?

  • But on Lake Ontario there was never any decisive struggle, and whenever an encounter occurred, each commodore always claimed that his adversary had "declined the combat" though "much superior in strength.

  • The Bolivian coca is said to be much superior to the Peruvian.

  • The product is, however, much superior if the ingredients are rectified along with 20 galls.

  • Ricord has strongly recommended capsules of copaiba, coated with extract of rhatany, as much superior to the common ones of copaiba alone, in the treatment of gleet and gonorrh[oe]a.

  • Indeed in every respect it is much superior to the debased Gaedhlic of the last three centuries.

  • The masonry of the chancel is finely jointed ashlar, much superior to the coarser work of the nave.

  • Guillon, who brought into the French markets considerable quantities of fine syrups, which he discoloured by ground wood charcoal, and sold them to great advantage, as much superior to the cassonades of that time.

  • That the paper is much superior in strength, firmness, and appearance, to any which can be made by hand of the same material.

  • Whenever the metal vanadium shall become more abundant, as it probably may ere long, we shall possess the means of making an ink, at a moderate price, much superior to the tannate and gallate of iron.

  • Why then should they abandon this, and endeavour to prevail by means in which their opponents are confessedly so much superior?

  • The country was in its full glory; the verdure of the valleys, in which we are so much superior to you in Scotland, but little tarnished by the weather; and the trees putting on their most beautiful looks.

  • The Petition for an absolute Retreat," and the "Nocturnal Reverie," are of much superior merit.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dinna believe; great triumph; much against; much alike; much business; much delicacy; much dreaded; much elongated; much evil; much higher; much honour; much larger; much matter; much meat; much need; much nicer; much obliged; much older; much respect; much said; much service; much shorter; much the; much wind; things indifferent; twas like