The patient, having received a slight wound of the forearm, for months had a useless arm, which he could move but slightly at the shoulder on exerting a superhuman effort.
By superhuman efforts--according to the man--he mastered his emotions and took his turn at the observation post.
These are of heroic height, and create an impression of superhuman size and strength even when raised so far above the ground.
His foot is - rather recklessly one would think, were this not a magical, superhuman being - placed heel-down upon the back of a great crab.
This is the method, famous in fiction for the recording on their knife-hilts by Indians and superhuman white scouts of the number of scalps taken in war.
To natures like his, the magic of a name thus loved, fluttering aloft in the smoke of battle, becomes talismanic, and inspires almost superhuman heroism.
In the poem itself signs are not wanting that Milton felt the terrible strain imposed upon him by the intense and prolonged abstraction of his theme--its unreality and superhuman elevation.
His success--and he knew it--depended on the untiring maintenance of a superhuman elevation.
Then, by an extraordinary and almost superhuman effort, he raised himself upon his legs: but they seemed to bend under him.
The knell from the church-tower was still ringing in my ears: by an almost superhuman effort I withdrew my hands from my countenance, and cast a shuddering look towards the house.
Lady Cecilia exercised an almost superhuman power over her distracted feelings, so as to appear composed, while she drew forth the coin from her purse.
They gave the man an aspect of superhumancoldness and at times an air of almost superhuman cruelty.
It required almost superhuman resolution on Westerham's part to hold this second secret to himself.
Melun must have acted with almost superhuman swiftness and ingenuity.
All her martyrdom wrests from the better nature of mankind is a tear of mourning, when, after a superhuman struggle, she again sinks exhausted, and is believed to sink into the grave.
These words fell upon me like a thunderbolt, and without a superhuman courage and the aid of Heaven, I should have been crushed at once; but I felt that the fate of my whole life might depend upon that moment.
Her fame went far and wide throughout Okoyong and beyond into regions still unexplored, and many thought of her with a kind of awe as one possessing superhuman power.
Footnote 68: When this centre is fixed in one of the higher bodies, the buddhic for instance, the man has passed into the superhuman stage.
Footnote 67: Later on, the centre of consciousness passes from the human to the superhuman state and ascends unceasingly until it reaches the centre of the Divinity incarnate in the world.
The first, and almostsuperhuman difficulty was to get outside the Stockade.
He rose with an almost superhuman effort, and plunged into the mass beyond.
Never, in any light, even in his dreams, had Demetrios seen such superhuman beauty and such a brilliancy of fading skin.
Thereupon Hiko-ho no Ninigi no Mikoto, throwing open the barrier of heaven and clearing a cloud-path, urged on his superhuman course until he came to rest.
In short, the list of his statues of superhuman beings, though it does include an Eros and a Dionysus, looks as if he had no especial predilection for the soft loveliness of youth, but rather for mature and vigorous forms.
A superhuman authority needs to be substantiated by superhuman evidence, and what is superhuman is miraculous" (pp.
At this unexpected insult, she uttered a shriek of terror, and making a superhuman effort, freed herself from his arms, pushing him from her with all her strength.
The sufferer writhed in agony, still making superhuman efforts to break his bonds.
By an almost superhuman effort she attempted to cry out again.
Surely it was by a superhuman effort that that slender arm retained its burden; but it could not hold out much longer.
But we should not forget that there is one menace to mankind greater than that of war--namely, the lurking danger from the power of this unknown possessor of superhuman knowledge of explosives.
The whole affair resembled nothing which he had ever conceived of either in the air, the earth, or the waters under the earth, the bizarre invention of a superhuman mind.
St. Paul does not attempt to prove the superhuman and Divine character of Christ, but refers to it as if it were undisputed.
These include superhuman knowledge, afterwards verified (such as prophecy), and superhuman coincidences; and there is nothing incredible in either.
On the whole, then, the miracle seems to have been a superhuman coincidence between a prayer of Joshua and an extraordinary and unique thunderstorm, which caused the sun to remain silent or invisible all day.
These include, to begin with, superhuman knowledge, which can be afterwards verified, such as prophecy.
And as a miracle, or rather superhuman coincidence, it presents no difficulty whatever.
Anyhow, these passages do not alter the fact that Christ did repeatedly claim to be both superhuman and Divine.
We have overwhelming evidence that after His Resurrection all the disciples and early Christians believed their Master to be both superhuman and Divine.
We will include under this term superhuman coincidences as well as miracles in the strict sense; and they occur all through the historical books of the Old Testament.
The most probable explanation is, that they are only a particular class of superhuman coincidences (Chapter VII.
This person, this upstart, this unidentified stranger, this perfect nobody of a new boy faced the critical, penetrating eyes of the assembled class with an almost superhuman ease.
He must by this time have been nearly sixty years of age; and for twenty years he had been engaged in almost superhuman labors.
There was never such superhumanand untiring energy.
With superhuman rapidity it passed before him and was gone.
These marked its outline, as it were, the outline of a superhuman shape.
They scarcely said another word, oppressed by the superhuman sadness which enwrapped them like a shroud.
