Whatever Romanism may be, there are good Romanists: this man, Emanuel, seemed of the best; touched with superstition, influenced by priestcraft, yet wondrous for fond faith, for pious devotion, for sacrifice of self, for charity unbounded.
" Indeed, everybody in the Rue Fossette held a superstition that "Meess Lucie" was learned; with the notable exception of M.
Had I gone to him, he would have shown me all that was tender, and comforting, and gentle, in the honest Popish superstition.
We heard the hound on the moor, so I can swear that it is not all empty superstition.
Stapleton may fall in with such a superstition, and Mortimer also, but if I have one quality upon earth it is common sense, and nothing will persuade me to believe in such a thing.
"The circumstances connected with the death of Sir Charles cannot be said to have been entirely cleared up by the inquest, but at least enough has been done to dispose of those rumours to which local superstition has given rise.
She had some queer, funny, half-playful, half-earnest superstition about it.
"That is only an old superstition, Susan.
The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals.
" muttered Superstition, as I dozed into unconsciousness.
Joseph had instilled into him a pride of name, and of his lineage; he would, had he dared, have fostered hate between him and the present owner of the Heights: but his dread of that owner amounted to superstition; and he confined his feelings regarding him to muttered innuendoes and private comminations.
Superstition urged me to comply with this impulse: supposing he should be dead!
" I obeyed, so far as to quit the chamber; when, ignorant where the narrow lobbies led, I stood still, and was witness, involuntarily, to a piece of superstition on the part of my landlord which belied, oddly, his apparent sense.
Their ignorance and gross superstition made them the facile tools of their designing chiefs.
A vigorous superstition, that lashes its gods or lashes its own back, seems to be more congruous with the mystery of the human lot, than the mental condition of these emmet-like Dodsons and Tullivers.
Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that was living and warm-blooded seemed sunk in the deep degeneracy of a superstition divorced from reverence; the dimmer but yet eager Titanic life gazing and struggling on walls and ceilings; the long vistas of white forms whose marble eyes seemed to hold the monotonous light of an alien world: all this vast wreck of ambitious ideals, sensuous and spiritual, mixed confusedly with the signs of breathing fo
All of us have a little superstition, and mine runs to a confidence in amulets.
I'd like to see her get around this with her rubbage 'bout superstition.
He crossed a small "branch" two or three times, because of a prevailing juvenile superstition that to cross water baffled pursuit.
A superstition is an irrational idea, like believing that the number 13 is unlucky!
