How To Use Peerless In A Sentence
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Here is another link -- José de Herédia, and his jewelled and chiselled sonnets -- the "Antique Medal" with its peerless sestette, which combines the essential meanings of Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn.
Confessions of a Book-Lover
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The extraordinary successes Israelis have demonstrated through a nearly peerless intellectual aegis is something all of us must learn from, particularly within the surrounding region.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Collateral Damage: The Hidden Costs of the Ariel Boycott
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I call her peerless because she has no peer, whether it be in bodily stature or in the supremacy of rank and beauty.
Don Quixote
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For almost half a century, Updike - modern America's peerless prose-poet of the everyday - has exhibited a dazzling flair for depicting actuality in all its sensuous vividness.
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However imperfectly we may know the person of Jesus, and however fragmentary may be the record of His teaching, one great truth looms out of the darkness -- the peerlessness of His character and the incomparableness of His ideal of life.
Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
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He was a peerless expert on the region beyond the Mississippi, as well as a prominent scientist and ethnologist.
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Yet her first two records still sound peerless.
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Melanie Phillips who is peerless in her championing of the depoliticisation of policing has chronicled this decline perspicaciously and in detail.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Peerless Chinese Kung fu is a unique material culture heritage.
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One thinks of his first book with its peerless interpretation of faith and culture in the cisatlantic lands of Don Quixote and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
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It may be so," said Frank; "at least you owe it to the prayers of that most pure and peerless virgin by whose commands you sailed; the sweet incense of whose orisons has gone up for you daily, and for whose sake you were preserved from flood and foe, that you might spread the fame and advance the power of the spotless championess of truth, and right, and freedom, -- Elizabeth, your queen.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
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Peerless; a gadjo pearl, the Tsingani had called Imriel de la Courcel.
Kushiel's Avatar
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And sir, said Sir Dinas, ye shall understand that Sir Tristram is called peerless and makeless of any Christian knight, and of his might and hardiness we knew none so good a knight, but if it be
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
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With its sophisticated challenges and peerless animation, the film is close to being a masterpiece.
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• Rafael Nadal exorcises 2009 (and exercises his clay-court peerlessness), winning the men's title yet again.
SI.com
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So it's a meaningless mismatch punctuated by spite, scrappy goals, cards and, with the exception of the peerless Pires, no flair.
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It is this extraordinarily potent combination which gives his work its peerless quality, his stories are driven by words and a mythic past but are also rooted in modern experience and uncertainty.
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Dioptase is a very beautiful mineral and it is one of the few minerals that can challenge the peerlessness of emerald's deep green.
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Sadly, his almost peerless skill in the saddle was matched until two years ago by a seemingly relentless ability, mostly alcohol-induced, to kick himself in the head.
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In the opening stages of the series, O'Connor sought to demonstrate his peerless courage and wit by ostentatiously haranguing the children and housewives who appeared before him for their musical shortcomings.
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Widmark shines, as does peerless character actress Thelma Ritter playing Jo, a veteran stoolie.
John Farr: Why Should Brad and Britney's Issues Dwarf the Legacy of Richard Widmark and Jules Dassin?
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Without a strong partnership between industry and the warfighter, it would have been impossible to transform a space-age stealthy fighter into the ultimate multi-role, peerless air dominance machine.
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This is not to denigrate their contribution - no doubt they are carrying out their assignments peerlessly.
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Rather than peerless screen goddesses, we see the vulnerable essences of the two stars.
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And so he continues; playing with our perceptions of context and meaning in works of breathtaking beauty and peerless draughtsmanship.
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I testify, moreover, that Thou hast decreed that none on the face of the earth should equal Them, and none of Thy creatures be able to be compared with any of Them, in order that Thine own singleness and peerlessness might be recognized and established.
Prayers and Meditations
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It is a peerless town car, being so quick and nimble, and it's a breeze to park and a doddle to drive in heavy traffic.
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The distinctive ales and wines are peerless, and so is the global array of bottled beers.
Times, Sunday Times
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A peerless study, which has been less than a decade in print, it has only begun to enter the employment of contemporary theorists and historians.
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Diane Fletcher is Lady Macbeth to Urquhart's peerless conniver, and Michael Kitchen does a regal take on Prince Charles.
Some Candidates for Election-Week Viewing
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His is a good story and his example is peerless, but increasingly it's old hat for the dark and dangerous reasons that football has been kidnapped by the all-pervasive influence of global television.
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The game gradually fizzled as Killie sat on their lead and Livingtson were unable to pierce the defence, led peerlessly once more by Freddie Dindeleux.
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A name endeared by its peerless bearer to every lover of the human race, 'For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it to be free; it is sufficient that she wills it.'
Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
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I've started reading your column in the Sunday Express but that won't satisfy my insatiable appetite for your peerless wit.
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But Real's peerless record goes beyond all that, their manifold achievements in the game as a whole transcend jealousy.
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a peerless scholar
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Mei is a peerless artist, but he is also a lonely mortals.
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Had they been any better, they would be threatening the peerless position of the puri at my local Indian restaurant, Gourock's Taj Mahal.
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The fruits of his labours are collected in this book, which is a peerless work of journalism, but a turgid piece of writing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tristram, Sir Launcelot is called peerless of courtesy and of knighthood; and for his sake, said Sir Tristram, I will not with my good will fight no more with you, for the great love I have to Sir
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Recall the peerless tributes paid to His memory by the Founder of the Faith, acclaiming Him
Citadel of Faith
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The flat Black Country accent is peerless for delivering these kind of pronouncements.
Times, Sunday Times
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He doesn't think of himself as having a peerless reputation, he just thinks of himself as being a good runner.
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From Cornish Blue shark steaks to Scarborough fresh-dressed crab, the range of fish is bewildering and the quality peerless.
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You begin to understand why the late great A.J. Liebling, the old New Yorker's peerless connoisseur of all sport, from winebibbing to politics, despised baseball.
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They are also the perfect showcases for her peerless choreography.
Times, Sunday Times
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That then was Philip Sidney, called the peerless one of his age; and perhaps no Englishman ever lived more graciously or, having used life, made a better end.
II. The Practice of Writing
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Parthenopaeus, a youth of peerless beauty; from Arcady he came even to the streams of Inachus, and in Argos spent his boyhood.
The Suppliants
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And so he continues; playing with our perceptions of context and meaning in works of breathtaking beauty and peerless draughtsmanship.
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Today this peerless coach lies feeble and weak wanting assistance to meet his illness.
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Ongoing journalistic peerlessness from C4's designated thought-slot.
The Guardian World News
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Modern decadence and moral ambiguity are brought to the fore, with peerless acting by Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
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If you accept that the words ‘the greatest’ can only be used to mean completely peerless in their sport, then there are really only two candidates.
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Yet the touch and timing of his training remains peerless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Shevchenko brings a smartish save out of Toldo with a cross that sort of morphed (peerless technical speak, I know) into a shot because the goalkeeper was out of position.
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Sister Cora Hayes, who has peerlessly served the parish for 45 years, saw her outstanding contribution recognised at the weekend.
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The latter player was to be very influential in the backs, his distribution and kicking being quite peerless all afternoon - he kicked six out of six conversions and deservedly won the man-of-the-match award.
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Through its peerless network of contacts the firm obtained a pre-broadcast copy of the series.
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Again, many of these objects were inspired by the peerless collection of Chinese porcelain amassed by the Sultans and housed in the Topkapi, the best outside China.
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The trip ends in an aging room stacked with 13,000 wheels coated with pepper, vegetable oil, and cocoa, Vella Cheese Company makes three types of cheese - asiago, cheddar, and Monterey jack; the nutty-tasting dry jack is peerless.
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Three goals from Mark Bultje and a peerless netminding display from Jayme Platt gave Phoenix the victory they needed in a must-win game.
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Although the book is peerless in terms of its examination of publishing, there is still a lack of comparative data, both within the industry and between publishing and other industries.
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This is why it is that, when others boast of national achievement, the American just points to the flag and bluntly says to all the world, 'Match this if you can, the peerless story of human freedom, of intellectual progress, of great-hearted, broad-minded development told in the mystic wedlock of the Stars and Stripes.'
Little-Known Gold From the Gilded Age
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My consultants currently read Harry as a modern-day knight, peerless and beyond reproach.
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That is truth, said Sir Tristram, Sir Launcelot is called peerless of courtesy and of knighthood; and for his sake, said Sir Tristram, I will not with my good will fight no more with you, for the great love I have to Sir Launcelot du Lake.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
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This is why it is that, when others boast of national achievement, the American just points to the flag and bluntly says to all the world, 'Match this if you can, the peerless story of human freedom, of intellectual progress, of great-hearted, broad-minded development told in the mystic wedlock of the Stars and Stripes.'
Little-Known Gold From the Gilded Age
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Now let your worships turn your eyes to that tower that appears there, which is supposed to be one of the towers of the alcazar of Saragossa, now called the now called the Aljaferia; that lady who appears on that balcony dressed in Moorish fashion is the peerless Melisendra, for many a time she used to gaze from thence upon the road to France, and seek consolation in her captivity by thinking of Paris and her husband.
Don Quixote
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Although the Mutton would never sanction wearing long johns as outer wear, they are peerless underwear for "weather events" such as the cold snap we have all endured of late.
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Though this tale of reincarnation and a love that crossed generations starred the peerless Barbara Harris, as a psychically gifted young woman with a past life just waiting to leap out of her, it was generally agreed that the 1965 production was overdressed, overplotted and more or less out of its mind.
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You can't have one without the other - Milne's quiet wit peerlessly complemented by his illustrator.
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I've started reading your column in the Sunday Express but that won't satisfy my insatiable appetite for your peerless wit.
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The son of a Sydney grocer, Rosewall was a natural left-hander but was taught to play right-handed by his father and developed a peerless backhand.
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From the distracted and despairing man whom love and longing trepan from the lover under passion’s ban the prisoner of transport and distraction from this Kamar al-Zaman son of Shahriman to the peerless one of the fair Houris the pearl-union to the Lady Budur daughter of King Al Ghayur
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Ascot has royalty, Goodwood offers glorious views towards England's south coast, but, for sheer style and panache, Longchamp is peerless.
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You experience a thriving mix of Maori, forestry, arts and crafts, a champion Maori rugby team, Tolaga Bay knitwear, peerless beaches and matchless surf.
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You can see instantly why he is peerless in British politics.
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Spain will treat you to peerless moments of collective artisanship; but they may also leave you feeling a bit cold.
World Cup 2010: How a love of Spain can make for a sterile affair
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They will remain peerless examples of how it should be done.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are also the perfect showcases for her peerless choreography.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sir, said Sir Lamorak, now I understand your knighthood, it may not be false that all men say, for of your bounty, noblesse, and worship, of all knights ye are peerless, and for your courtesy and gentleness I showed you ungentleness, and that now me repenteth.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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How can you take pleasure, whenever it is possible, in casting such slurs upon a woman, whom but yesterday you called blameless, charming, peerless?
Cleopatra — Volume 01
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For some it is a peerless amalgam of balletic grace and surgical artistry, to others ping-pong is a panda.
Times, Sunday Times
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The members like their course manicured like no other; the members enjoy their almost peerless wine cellar; the members like paying only $100 per night to stay in the club grounds.
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The three Tibetan Buddhist lineages of the New Translation Period - Sakya, Kagyu, and Gelug - divide tantra into four classes: kriya (ritual Buddha-figure practice), which emphasizes external ritual practices such as ablution, diet, and fasting; charya (behavioral Buddha-figure practice), which equally emphasizes external behavior and internal methods; yoga (integrated Buddha-figure practice), which emphasizes internal methods of yoga; anuttarayoga (peerlessly integrated Buddha-figure practice), which teaches special, more advanced methods of internal practice.
Basic Features of Tantra
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The fruits of his labours are collected in this book, which is a peerless work of journalism, but a turgid piece of writing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The flat Black Country accent is peerless for delivering these kind of pronouncements.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dinas, ye shall understand that Sir Tristram is called peerless and makeless of any Christian knight, and of his might and hardiness we knew none so good a knight, but if it be Sir Launcelot du Lake.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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“It may be so,” said Frank; “at least you owe it to the prayers of that most pure and peerless virgin by whose commands you sailed; the sweet incense of whose orisons has gone up for you daily, and for whose sake you were preserved from flood and foe, that you might spread the fame and advance the power of the spotless championess of truth, and right, and freedom, — Elizabeth, your queen.”
Westward Ho!
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New Zealand remain peerless but Australia are back with conviction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course not everyone is disenchanted with our peerless leader.
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One bitter, black hunting-day, a day keen and cold, with frost, as men feared, in the air, and with the ground so hard that even the Duke's peerless "dandies," perfect hounds though they are, scarcely could keep the scent, there came terrible tidings to the Hall -- he had met with a crashing fall.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida
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Maya Homberger's phrasing on the Baroque violin is peerless, her tone warm and expressive.
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No queenly way for woman to practise, though peerless she, that the weaver-of-peace 76 from warrior dear by wrath and lying his life should reave!
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
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Compellingly perfect, it's why this album's so peerless.
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The wonderfully rounded performances on his early discs, when peerless technique was wedded to Apollonian refinement, now seem to belong to another age entirely.
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And while other artists might explore similar ground, the particular glory of Paterson's work is its peerless perfection.
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“A name endeared by its peerless bearer to every lover of the human race, 'For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it to be free; it is sufficient that she wills it.'”
Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
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The flat Black Country accent is peerless for delivering these kind of pronouncements.
Times, Sunday Times
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Greater men than I have spun through this door, including Winston Churchill and countless other dignitaries that made this peerless palace a favourite escape from the freezing winters of northern Europe.
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Already Awadaguchi, Bizen, Osafune, and others had attained celebrity, but for Okazaki Masamune, of Kamakura, who worked during the reign of Go-Daigo (1318-1339) was reserved the renown of peerlessness.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era