Under the reign of Tiberius the whole earth, or at least a celebrated province of the Roman Empire, was involved in a preternatural darkness of three hours.
He was considerably taller than his father, but his frame, though powerfully built, was devoid of that excessive and almost preternatural muscular development that characterised that of the old executioner.
The half-murdered pedlar managed to sustain life by an almost preternatural effort until the arrival of the two individuals.
These facts suffice to prove that the miraculous Spaniard, who affected preternatural incombustibility, had no need of magic for the working of his wonders.
In exhibiting this apparently preternatural power, she pretended to have an invisible colleague, named Pierre Jean, with whom she appeared to hold conversations; an exploit that exposed her to a charge of witchcraft.
It was as though a preternaturalhorror claimed a preternatural expression.
The hallucinations of insanity are due to a projection of mental images which have, owing to certain circumstances, gained a preternatural persistence and vividness.
When not brought on by exhaustion or artificial means, the hallucinations of the sane have their origin in a preternatural power of imagination.
The effect of any emotional excitement appears to be to give a preternatural vividness and persistence to the ideas answering to it, that is to say, the ideas which are its excitants, or which are otherwise associated with it.
In many cases there seems to be a temporary preternatural activity of the imagination in certain directions, of which no very obvious explanation is discoverable.
Thus, when we look through a piece of yellow glass at a dull, wintry landscape, we are disposed to imagine that we are looking at a sunny scene of preternatural warmth.
And, however this be, it is plain that the image will gain a preternatural force through the greatly narrowed range of attention.
Yet the historian, who views this religious conflict with an impartial eye, may condescend to mention one preternatural event, which will edify the devout, and surprise the incredulous.
If there were any process in sorcery or necromancy more preternatural than this, I should be much surprised.
All these, according to them, are preternaturalor supernatural beings, having no likeness in experience, though experience is entirely a manifestation of their agency.
The most signal manifestation, however, of preternatural agency appears in the story of the rumor of his success.
But, above all, this is most wonderful; that by preternatural interposition both of them had notice given of their approaching death by an unpropitious form, which visibly appeared to them.
The delirium must have given me preternatural strength, if I walked all the distance to the spot where you found me.
Where all was blackness when she lay down, now all was preternatural light.
I--" He was loping down the path already, his long legs makingpreternatural shadows on the snow in the moonlight.
Events are now moving in silent speed, almost with velocity, indeed; and I sometimes feel oppressed by the strange and preternatural ease which seems to accompany their flow.
Looking aloft for a moment I perceive that the sky is much more overcast than it has been hitherto, and in a few instants a dead lull in what is now a gale ensues with almost preternatural abruptness.
The catalogue of the cauldron's ingredients in Macbeth, destroys the terror attendant on the mysterious darkness of preternatural agency; and the seraglio trappings of Rubens, annihilate his heroes.
This resolution, suddenly taken, imparted preternatural composure both to his mind and his face.
Only one person, the questioner, a young man with a preternatural head, was unappeased.
It was partly this unusual order of march, I suspect, which gave such an air of preternatural gravity to their movements.
The astonished Caliph trembled as he answered, yet in a style that showed him to be no novice in preternatural adventures: "Where art thou?
At the name of Carathis Vathek recollected the tablets he had received from his mother, who assured him they were fraught withpreternatural qualities, and advised him to consult them as emergencies might require.
It defeats the steady habit of exertion, but it creates spasms of irregular exertion; it ruins the natural power of life, but it develops preternatural paroxysms of intermitting power.
Now, to live in a cold bath, in our climate, and in my own state of preternatural sensibility to cold, was not an idea to dally with.
His manner of reading his own poetry is particularly imposing, and in his favourite passages his eye beams with preternatural lustre, and the meaning labours slowly up from his swelling breast.
