One little act of hers may perhaps be smiled at as superstitious.
Lydgate, inclined to be sarcastic on the superstitious faith of the people in the efficacy of "the bill," while nobody cared about the low state of pathology, sometimes assailed Will with troublesome questions.
It is true that an observer, under that softening influence of the fine arts which makes other people's hardships picturesque, might have been delighted with this homestead called Freeman's End: the old house had dormer-windows in the dark red roof, two of the chimneys were choked with ivy, the large porch was blocked up with bundles of sticks, and half the windows were closed with gray worm-eaten shutters about which the jasmine-boughs grew in wild luxuriance; the mouldering garden wall with ho
I am not superstitious and I know it can make no difference.
All pirates are superstitious, and Cookson cried, "They do say the surest sign a ship's accurst is when there's one on board more than can be accounted for.
I'm not superstitious.
I'm not superstitious.
" Now, before I go on, you should know that I'm not an overly superstitious person.
A superstitious passenger delayed a flight for over four hours after throwing coins at the plane's engine for good luck at an airport.
" The first one screamed back, "This is no time to be superstitious!
While the superstitious folks afflicted with this problem can easily stay home on Friday the 13th, it's going to be a lot harder to stay inside for another 362 days.
I'm not being superstitious, but his predictions turn out to be accurate.
'The idea that numbers are somehow pure and immune to superstitious thinking, because they're somehow more 'objective' than words, doesn't take into account the fact that every concept exists (in our minds) in an interconnected tapestry of emotionally and culturally charged signifiers,' Golan Levin, designer of the interactive project The Secret Lives of Numbers, which tracks the popularity of every whole number between one and one million, writes in an email.
" Now, before I go on, you should know that I'm not an overly superstitious person.
But you can never tell what will affect the superstitious, and to my wonder, George Merry was greatly relieved.
"In this part of the world in Asia people are more superstitious so this works against them," an industry executive told the Financial Times.
