In the malformed flowers no pollen is formed, at least in the more complete states of the malformation, but the walls of the anther lobe becomepreternaturally enlarged, and petaloid in texture and appearance.
In contrast with the deep silence that is really an eternal part of the mountains, the sound seemed preternaturally loud.
It is strange, Jude, that these preternaturally old boys almost always come from new countries.
The class of people commonly known as contortionists by the laxity of their muscles and ligaments are able to dislocate or preternaturally bend their joints.
The membranes were opaque and preternaturally thickened, and were opened with a pair of scissors; strenuous efforts were made to save the child, but to no purpose.
The continued action of the pterygoid muscles had so preternaturally loosened the ligaments and muscular structures supporting the joint as to render them unable to resist the violent action of "tongue sucking" even during sleep.
She commanded her wits now, her vocal organs; she felt herself to be in an almost preternaturally perfect control of every fibre of her body.
Have you observed that the shares are preternaturallyhigh just now?
She was made to go to bed and get up at preternaturally early hours; and her employment during the day was mapped out in obedience to similarly senseless rules.
Wherefore, Madame Sand, try and be so preternaturally wise?
Sam, as from a dream, starting up, and looking preternaturally pale and hideous.
She looks preternaturally solemn; as does St. Luke, who is eyeing his paint-brush with an intense ominous mystical look.
Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.
The form approached the foot of the bed: the room was preternaturally light; the objects in the chamber were distinctly visible.
The room is 'preternaturally light,' as in Greek and Norse belief it should have been, and as it is in the best modern ghost stories.
The black children, preternaturally solemn while Ethan and Scherer lifted them in, grinned and squealed with excitement the moment they were landed by the side of "Miss Val.
But John was violently wrought upon; and most impressed of all was the small but preternaturally precocious Valeria.
The floor was strewn with papers, books and papers lay on the chairs, on the sofa, even on the preternaturally high and massive bedstead, that looked quite inaccessible to all save the athletic without the aid of a ladder.
As Ethan was taking his place by Mrs. Gano, he stopped suddenly, catching sight of the preternaturally tall silver coffee-pot, and made obeisance.
You would find there the rings and signets of the Basilidians; amulets too of wood or ivory: figures of demons, preternaturally ugly; little skeletons, and other superstitious devices.
One preternaturally lean wolf even wriggled his shoulders fairly through, so that he was within an ace of taking a mouthful out of my leg before I could have a fair blow at him with my hatchet.
I enjoyed a paternal pride in the handsome, pale, preternaturally intelligent little fellow.
The rest of the night I lay preternaturally awake, hearing the snoring and murmuring of my fellows in the mow .
It was all covered with blotches, and preternaturally dark and discolored; it was withered away, quite shrunken and fleshless; it breathed only amid pantings and gaspings, and moaned painfully at every gasp.
And yet, though the individual Englishman is sometimes preternaturally disagreeable, an observer standing aloof has a sense of natural kindness towards them in the lump.
Every thing seemed preternaturally still, and I felt oppressed by a strange sense of loneliness; I looked round in vain for some familiar object, the sight of which might afford me relief.
How preternaturally still every thing seemed--what an intensity of silence!
Then they looked at one another, and laughed; but only for Fin to turn preternaturally serious.
Rosa, preternaturally grave and quiet, lapsed into a profound study of the mountain of red-hot embers.
There was a merry twinkle in the big blue eyes looking out of the decidedly handsome face, which was preternaturally grave, and, this time, Phyllis did not try not to laugh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preternaturally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
