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Example sentences for "supernatural powers"

  • Theft is not only punished by men, but is supposed to be avenged by supernatural powers.

  • Theft {viii} supposed to be avenged by supernatural powers, pp.

  • According to them, twins remain throughout life endowed with supernatural powers.

  • When Jesus died and was buried, the coverings of the body were unrolled from off him, and his tomb was opened by supernatural powers.

  • When Buddha died and was buried, "the coverings of the body unrolled themselves, and the lid of his coffin was opened by supernatural powers.

  • The coverings of the body unrolled themselves, and the lid of his coffin was opened by supernatural powers.

  • The supernatural powers of the Arhats are mentioned in the inscriptions of Acoka, and the ordination service of the Cramanas forbade them to boast falsely of supernatural powers.

  • Could he who had reached the summit of wisdom and virtue have been without supernatural powers?

  • Probably the "psychological analysis" which most interested the author is the double consciousness of Norna, the occasional intrusions of the rational self on her dreams of supernatural powers.

  • Those supposed to be possessed of supernatural powers, are venerated in the earlier stages of society.

  • He everywhere develops a malignant hostility to religion, and the avowed object of his physical theories is to rid the human mind of all fear of supernatural powers--that is, of all fear of God.

  • If those things which make the pleasures of debauched men put an end to the fears of the mind, and to those which arise about the heavenly bodies [supernatural powers], and death and pain,.

  • All unexplained phenomena are ascribed to unseen, supernatural powers; often to malignant powers, which take pleasure in tormenting man; sometimes to a Supreme and Righteous Power, which rewards and punishes men for their good or evil conduct.

  • The myths are still prevailingly cosmologic and sociologic, but the beginning of biographical sketches of supernatural Powers is visible.

  • Phallic forms abound[719] in the land, in spite of repressive measures on the part of the government, but the cult partakes of the general looseness of the Shinto organization of supernatural Powers.

  • It flourished at a time when there was no general demand in human thought for coöperation in supernatural Powers.

  • A symbolic signification appears to have been superimposed on early realistic anthropomorphic figures that were simply images of supernatural Powers.

  • The systematic prosecution of mental concentration and the idea that supernatural powers can be acquired thereby are very old—certainly older than Buddhism.

  • The teachers, though ignorant of hypnotism as such, would not hesitate to use any procedure which seemed to favour progress in meditation and the acquisition of supernatural powers.

  • If some of these latter-day healers would only go to an old soldiers' home and supply some missing arms and legs, the "doubting Thomases" would be more ready to concede their possession of supernatural powers.

  • But as regards the miracles, it is true that few of them have much scientific value as evidence of the intervention of supernatural powers in their occurrence.

  • Did Judas, in his supreme confidence in his Master's supernatural powers, feel convinced that, if once a contest were precipitated between the Pharisees and Jesus, the latter would exert those powers and utterly confound His enemies?

  • It is, as must be expected, carried on in great secrecy, and is said to lead to the possession of supernatural powers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    became secretary; bring back; considering the; each variety; equestrian rank; leavened bread; looking little; major domo; one volume; paned windows; right understanding; should write; stamens numerous; supernatural agency; supernatural being; supernatural beings; supernatural power; supernatural powers; supernatural revelation; terrestrial life; thoroughly good; town like; virtue and; while the; whosoever believeth; wing coverts