This supremacy of the most ancient of crafts is in the secret nature of things, and cannot be explained.
Sleep soon reigned: over those pillows, sleep won an easy supremacy: contented sovereign over heads and hearts which did not ache—he passed by the unquiet.
To pursue a somewhat audacious parallel, in a love of power, in an eager grasp after supremacy, M.
Never before had the British power in India been exposed to such danger, and if, as they had hoped, the sepoys had received assistance from without, the influence and supremacy in Asia of the United Kingdom would have been a thing of the past.
" It may be surprising that Maggie, among whose many imperfections an excessive delight in admiration and acknowledged supremacy were not absent now, any more than when she was instructing the gypsies with a view toward achieving a royal position among them, was not more elated on a day when she had had the tribute of so many looks and smiles, together with that satisfactory consciousness which had necessarily come from being taken before Lucy's chevalglass, and made to look at the full lengt
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life—the life which has a seed of ennobling thought and purpose within it—can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
He had been used every day to taste the flavor of supremacy and the tribute of complete deference: and the certainty that he was watched or measured with a hidden suspicion of his having some discreditable secret, made his voice totter when he was speaking to edification.
But his fears were such as belong to a man who cares to maintain his recognized supremacy: the loss of high consideration from his wife, as from every one else who did not clearly hate him out of enmity to the truth, would be as the beginning of death to him.
Our architectural supremacy is what generally strikes visitors to our city most forcibly.
He wanted to acquaint the Chinese with such biological evolutionist ideas as "organic evolution and natural selection" and "the survival of the fittest" and awaken them to the necessity of retaining the political consciousness of striving to become stronger, of competing with nature for supremacy.
: Only in the 15th century, the Ming armies suffered a throwback by the joined troops of Mongols, Oirats, and uTartarsIn the Northeast the Ming troops occupied Manchuria, and the Korean kingdom (Choson) of the Li Dynasty could be forced to accept the nominal supremacy of the Ming Dynasty.
shower-in-the-evening is one of the real lines of demarcation between Chinese and westerners, and neither my Chinese-born parents (who never lost the evening shower habit even after 40 years in the US) nor my wife, who's from Beijing, ever get tired of asserting the supremacy of the PM shower.
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) 《2》（2004） When Greengrass took the Bourne reins over, he turbo-charged the pace of the contemporary action thriller and made it connect in a wholly new way with the world it wanted to be set in.
It also possesses abiding supremacy in new technologies.
But the new study suggests that mammalian supremacy might have occurred eventually, without a space impact.
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Soon, however, he had the emperor executed, thus precipitating a struggle for supremacy with his rival generals, the foremost of whom was Liu Bang, who had been given control of western China.
But it is also a way to better understand the technical and logistical challenges facing JD, which is in a pitched battle for e-commerce supremacy in the world's second-biggest economy after the United States.
And China has no intention to compete with other countries for supremacy.
Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925 Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
