Yet even among cattle the reproductive power surpasses what might be thought absolutely necessary.
Moreover, it would involve a contradiction to assert that the actual surpasses the virtual.
Homer is happy in his description of wounds, but this surpasses him in the characteristic choice of circumstance.
Though the metonymy of bread-earner for a shoeblack's knife may not equal these in elegance, it perhaps surpasses them in ingenuity.
We know something at least of Egypt; we have monumental evidence, which surpasses all written documents, which may be voluntarily or involuntarily falsified.
He surpasses the other two groups of humanity, not only in technical skill, but especially in inventive and reasoning power, critical discernment, and purity of artistic taste.
But the reality surpasses even that grand thought, for it discloses to us an endless approximation to an infinite beauty, and an ever-growing possession of never exhausted fulness, as the law for the progress of all Christ's servants.
We are poor followers of Him, if David surpasses us in patience and magnanimity.
Two months pass; and the result of my liberality surpasses my expectations.
For scoundrelly ingenuity the Epeira's net can bear comparison with the fowler's; it even surpasses it when, on patient study, the main features of its supreme perfection stand revealed.
The Lycosa's affection for her offspring hardly surpassesthat of the plant, which is unacquainted with any tender feeling and nevertheless bestows the nicest and most delicate care upon its seeds.
As a result, MacDowell's scoring frequently surpasses even that of his illustrious French contemporary.
His compositions are imbued with beauty and sweetness of melody, with varied harmonies, buoyant orchestration; his choral writing is the most fluent since Bach's and surpasses in this respect that of Händel.
Whitman says boldly:-- "And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue.
But if Rouen will not compare with Lyons in size, or commercial importance, it surpasses it in antiquarian interest; and we have chosen our illustrations to depict it rather as it was, than as it is.
In power of dramatic description no modern historian, except perhaps Mr. Carlyle, surpasses him, and in analysis of character he is elaborate and distinct.
St. Augustine says in his "City of God," "The angelic world in its natural dignity surpassesall other things the Lord has made.
Seek to purify your will, make it conformable to the will of God, for then you enjoy peace more and more; you will taste the happiness of that peace which surpasses all the joys of the world, and which the world cannot give.
To catch them both in any mortal object and pin them there, surpasses our powers.
The question is whether we cannot realise that solid and central life which underlies and yet surpasses all rules.
Not only do they bathe every morning in the frozen sea, and stand naked on the beach, inhaling the icy wind, but their endurability, even when at hard work on insufficient food, surpassesall that can be imagined.
Yes, she is as beautiful as the Venus of Milo; she even surpasses the latter in many respects: she is, for instance, very much younger.
As regards size, the great Oceanic, whose first voyage was made in 1899, surpasses any other boat ever built.
The progress in mining has been enormous, and the production of gold in the nineteenth century perhaps surpasses that of all previous time.
All will admit that it greatly surpasses any other system known among men.
Else the first act of knowledge would be inexplicable, and all revelation of higher characters to lower would be precluded, as well as all progress to knowledge which surpasses our present attainments.
In the case of all truth that surpasses the normal powers of man to perceive or evolve, there must be special communication from God; revelation must go before inspiration; inspiration alone is not revelation.
Why in this quality a log, or a stone, far surpasses even the pupils of this Champion of quietness; and the chairs round his fireside exceed those who sit in them.
Hence, in this class of pictures, the house of Savoy surpassesevery single house in Italy, or even many taken together.
There is a ghastliness about the funeral ceremonies of the Fijians which farsurpasses even the dreary desolation of those in vogue among ourselves.
A cuirass of moleskin, with the fur inside, adorns little Eudore with the burnished back of a beetle; while the golden corselet of Tulacque the Big Chief surpasses all.
In this fury of fatal engines, this mechanical cataclysm that pursues us through space, there is something that surpasses human strength and will, something supernatural.
The luxury, displayed at receptions, dinners, and dances, surpasses European imagination.
Consider it then, the joy as of flowers, the happiness as of Spring, in that architecture we call Early English, which for joy and happiness surpassesany other in the world.
The tomb of St Thomas the Martyr," writes a Venetian traveller who had seen it, "surpasses all belief.
The Indian fable says, that a palace is a caravansera; but such a succession of guests surpasses fable in strangeness.
Now, there can be no doubt that this art and calling surpasses all those that mankind has invented, and is the more deserving of being held in honour in proportion as it is the more exposed to peril.
I knew at once that they were speaking of Don Gaspar Gregorio, whose comeliness surpasses the most highly vaunted beauty.
This head surpasses all the other portions in a very striking manner; it appears freshly painted, and still moist with oil, retaining its tints perfectly.
Whether they are three or thretty or a hundersurpasses my knowledge, but they hae got the secret o' the fern seed and walk about invisible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surpasses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
