"Transcendently" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dressing-room. The diva was already dressed for her part, and looked so transcendently beautiful that the maestro ...
— The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere
... It was a transcendently grand, a glorious burst. The energy of his action corresponded. Intense emotion beamed from his countenance. I cannot describe the appearance of his face better than by saving it was lighted up almost into a glare. The congregation were intensely excited, leaning forward in the pews like a forest ...
— The Recreations of A Country Parson • A. K. H. Boyd
... hope that, by the same process of friendly, patient, and persevering deliberation, all constitutional objections will ultimately be removed. The extent and limitation of the powers of the General Government, in relation to this transcendently important interest, will be settled and acknowledged to the common satisfaction of all; and every speculative scruple will be solved ...
— Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward
... so transcendently lovely as she spoke, that Strozzi's heart sank within him. He turned his ...
— Prince Eugene and His Times • L. Muhlbach
... poor tender creature, being denied all woman's loves and joys by Fate, who had made her as she was, so lived in her sister's beauty and triumphs that 'twas as if in some far-off way she shared them, and herself experienced through them the joy of being a woman transcendently beautiful and transcendently beloved. To-night she had spent her waiting hours in her closet and upon her knees, praying with all humble adoration of the Being she approached. She was wont to pray long and fervently each day, thanking Heaven for the smallest things and the most common, ...
— A Lady of Quality • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... uncontrollable by human skill; the latter was to be foreseen at any distance by the most ignorant, and to be avoided by the most unwary. I mean in the first the Plague of the Athenians; in the second the starvation of the French. The first happened under the administration of a man transcendently brave; a man cautious, temperate, eloquent, prompt, sagacious, above all that ever guided the councils and animated the energies of a state; the second under a soldier of fortune, expert and enthusiastic; but often deficient in moral courage, not seldom in personal; rude, insolent, rash, rapacious; ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III • Various
... asked to point out the special features in which Shakespeare's plays are so transcendently excellent, you would mention, perhaps, among others, this, that his stories are not put together, and his characters are not conceived, to illustrate any particular law or principle. They teach many lessons, but not any one prominent above another; and when we have drawn ...
— Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude |
