How To Use Preternatural In A Sentence
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I eased the door open silently, but the Fool's preternatural awareness served him well.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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They are also quite preternaturally ugly, bringing a rude abbreviation to the extension of the leg and drawing attention to the unbeautiful formlessness of the shoe, and the cheapness of its material and fabrication.
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One week after this story was written, the top 20 pop albums in the United States included records by fresh-faced adolescents the Beatles, teen sensation Bob Seger, twentysomething heartthrob Frank Sinatra, a barely-postpubescent but preternaturally-talented Bob Marley, recent high school graduate Rod Stewart, former boy band member Johnny Cash, newly-discovered youth sensation Barry White, and a band whose name is synonymous with "teenage rebellion": Pink Floyd.
Sirilyan Diary Entry
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One preternaturally long bony hand, a length of severed rope dangling from the wrist, clutched with clawed fingers at a sword gash in chain mail stained with dried blood.
Conan The Invincible
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Beyond his preternatural affability there is some acid and some steel
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Patriotism, hounded on by Prussian Terror, by Preternatural Suspicion, roars tumultuous round the Salle de Manege, all day; insults many leading Deputies, of the absolvent Right-side; nay chases them, collars them with loud menace: Deputy Vaublanc, and others of the like, are glad to take refuge in Guardhouses, and escape by the back window.
The French Revolution
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He clearly adores his kids, who are all stalwart, funny and, for tweeners, preternaturally considerate.
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Below his preternatural affability there is some acid and steel.
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Politicians, pollsters and the public have begun to see the issues of morality and leadership collide rather than converge, leading to contradictory and sometimes preternatural election results.
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A spray of green leaves embodies and radiates light against the relatively flat and abstracted background of a blooming meadow; shadows on the brocade reverberate with preternatural energy.
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He felt possessed of a preternatural strength and fearlessness.
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Paul slept beside her and there was an almost preternatural silence in the Crescent.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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It starts out slow and ethereal, but when the chorus comes, it effloresces into a symphony of preternatural sound that blows you away.
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None of that, however, mitigates the fact that I was a very good hunter - I'm still a good shot - with preternatural hearing and a kind of instinct for finding the animals.
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The whites of his eyes were large in my view and surrounding two jet black preternatural pupils unlike any I had seen before.
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_Antiquary_, the ingenious and abstruse Mr. Jonathan Oldbuck, and the old beadsman Edie Ochiltree, and that preternatural figure of old Edith
The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits
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I've mentioned before, the strange - to my way of thinking, preternatural - coincidences that often occur.
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I'm a spirit with preternatural flesh . Detached. Unchangeable . Empty.
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She had the preternatural ability to be alluring and icy at the same time; she could change emotional colors with magnificent yet subtle clarity.
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Looking from the outside in, they view design as preternaturally flawed, subject to fluctuating markets and consequent shifts in personal taste, economic stability and technological change.
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Although invisible to present probes, such preternaturally potent super-snakes are conceivably copulating throughout the icy blackness of outer space.
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And truly, the lack of coverage by the world's most powerful media outlets and the fact that all guests are sworn to secrecy gives the whole conference a preternatural aura.
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Having recently met a young Englishman of preternatural charm and physique, I surmised (perhaps wrongly) that after a day in the country together, I had managed to engender his affections.
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In 'amaurosis', the eye is beautifully clear, and, for a little while, this clearness imposes upon the casual observer; but there is a peculiar pellucid appearance about the eye -- a preternatural and unchanging brightness.
The Dog
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Opposite, another young lawyer, Eugene Fort, was saying preternaturally bright things to Tiny, who lifted her sweet orbs at intervals and remarked: "How _dreadfully_ clever you are, Mr. Fort; I am _so_ afraid of you!" or "How _sweet_ of you to think I am worth all those _real_ epigrams!
The Californians
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He changes his off-white shirt for a beige one that makes him look, if anything, even more preternaturally pale.
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He is a being with no preternatural qualities, and differs from real living animals only in extreme smallness and agility.
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Below his preternatural affability there is some acid and steel.
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But now Tatiana could not believe her preternatural desire for him.
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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Cosby's preternatural calm offers clues to his success as a performer - his immaculate timing - but also his success as a person.
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Hawaii imbued Obama with the laid back , almost preternatural calm that has underpinned his political career.
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Paul slept beside her and there was an almost preternatural silence in the Crescent.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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In the first book, MAGIC BITES, Kate's guardian is murdered, and she must choose to hide or to pursue his preternatural killer.
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-- The fragments approach the inter-osseous space; while there is more or less of deformity, preternatural mobility, absence of the power to pronate and supinate the army, and crepitus.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
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([Greek: teras] is Cicero's own word), as preternaturally endowed, in this quality of working power.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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Harte's stories, in their matter-of-fact referencing of the preternatural and supernatural, and in their blending of the fantastic and the mundane may be seen as affiliates of Magic Realism.
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And to be preternaturally sincere, I prefer a well-aired bottle of Chateauneuf-de-Pape and a nice Saumon-au-Beurre over beer and barbecue any day.
James Rotondi: Bush and Obama: What Really (Might Have) Happened
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Bertrams did not grow on every bush, and whose senses the function had preternaturally sharpened for any address from Romance, seized and shook her sister's arm; and, later on, in a Louis Quinze _causeuse_, up stairs, they agreed that if young Cope really had had another claimant on his attention, it was all the better that their Amy had ended by taking
Bertram Cope's Year
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The 14 dancers in the final team are young, lithe and preternaturally flexible.
Cunningham's Legacy Touches the West Coast
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We had an awesome cairn terrier / Jack Russell mix that was preternaturally intelligent, capable of stunning tricks (including climbing trees), but he wouldn't fetch a stick for any reward.
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The assistant moves with preternatural delicacy, and speed, and soon the ant is seated.
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a thousand flambeaux...turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day
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Giant machines and preternatural contraptions can dominate the landscape.
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The daguerreotype process often led to images of preternatural clarity and precision; they must have seemed miraculous in the 1840s.
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Comic books showed avenging women with preternatural physical power: villains or heroes, depending on one's perspective.
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she was preternaturally beautiful
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These documents reflect the distinctive features of the structure of the merchants' families such as adopting system, unsoundness of family, preternatural...
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Their parents had an almost preternatural ability to understand what was going on in their children's minds.
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Looking at his standard-issue scurrying gait, his shrugging, mousey demeanour, and then witnessing the preternatural skittering electricity in those feet, you wonder why there hasn't ever been one of these before, or even hundreds of them.
Ten ways to satisfy your constant craving for El Clásico | Barney Ronay
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Anger gave me preternatural strength, and I managed to force the door open.
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As a sleeping princess, her blank face and torso exaggerate rather than diminish the beauty of her preternaturally leggy dancing.
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The probability of this explanation is strengthened by the flowing of the blood from the nose to the ears, spontaneous haemoptysis, also by preternatural redness of the viscera, engorgements of the cerebral vessel, and bloody effusion, all of which conditions have been found after death.
Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812
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The gentleman in the rostrum is a voluble personage, with a rapidly roving eye, of preternatural quickness in picking up "bids.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891
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But now Tatiana could not believe her preternatural desire for him.
THE BRONZE HORSEMAN
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Tracy wholeheartedly rejects hard work (this is best captured in the episode called "The Natural Order," in which it is demonstrated that only in an "upside-down" world could Tracy be asked to sincerely labor), and so he relies on his preternatural clownishness and the coattails of his paternal writers and producers for success.
Zeeshan Aleem: Is 30 Rock the Most Racist Show on Television?
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Abruptly, Beth and the other vampire joined the fray, fighting with teeth as well as preternatural speed and strength.
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Although invisible to present probes, such preternaturally potent super-snakes are conceivably copulating throughout the icy blackness of outer space.
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They are also quite preternaturally ugly, bringing a rude abbreviation to the extension of the leg and drawing attention to the unbeautiful formlessness of the shoe, and the cheapness of its material and fabrication.
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She was now at her full, and when at length she came up out of the sea, her disc, broad and red like a beamless sun, seemed to rest, dilated to preternatural size, upon the edge of the last wave that swelled against the horizon.
The Island Home
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If his primitive state was his natural state, and if the political state is supernatural, preternatural, or subnatural, how passed he alone, by his own unaided powers, from the former to the latter?
The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny
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And while a quarterback can improvise and create, NFL defenses are savvy enough to swallow up all but the most preternaturally gifted field generals.
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Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders.
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But I am here to tell you that swans are preternaturally strong beyond ordinary imagination, clannish, quick to anger, domineering, and that they posses a decided mean streak.
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Why does everything have to be experienced through the prism of preternaturally beautiful high-school teens, or perfectly-coiffed (yet fiercely dedicated) professionals?
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Their parents had an almost preternatural ability to understand what was going on in their children's minds.
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They grew so tall, however, and in such preternatural numbers, that she could not see the house at all ---not a chimney pot, not a balcony.
COLDHEART CANYON
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He's developed a preternatural ability to get the squeaker out of any toy, always accompanied by clouds of Hollofil.
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His absence bloomed in her until she grew absent herself, preternaturally agreeable.
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Anger gave me preternatural strength, and I managed to force the door open.
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(here the ludicrous expression predominated); "hope you'll be comfortable, sir" (here he nearly burst into a laugh); "show you into master's study, sir, directly" (here he became preternaturally grave again); and, opening the study door, ushered me into the presence of the dreaded tutor.
Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
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-- The upper fragment is carried forwards by the action of the psoas and iliacus internus, and at the same time everted and drawn outwards by the external rotator and glutei muscles, causing a marked prominence at the outer side of the thigh and great pain from the laceration of the muscles; the lower fragment is drawn upwards, by the rectus, biceps, semi-membranosus and semitendinous muscles, whilst its upper end is thrown outwards and its lower end inwards by the pectineus and adductor muscles; crepitation, preternatural
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
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The febrile paroxysm is fully formed, whilst the preternatural heat kindled in the heart is thence diffused by the arteries through the whole body along with the morbific matter, which is in this way overcome and dissolved by nature.
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
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Abruptly, Beth and the other vampire joined the fray, fighting with teeth as well as preternatural speed and strength.
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Anger gave me preternatural strength, and I managed to force the door open.
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Unthinkable not long ago to vacation in Nicaragua, but now, fully bathed in peace, and blessed with preternatural beauty, it is a beginning blip on the adventure travelers 'radar; perhaps at the brink of a tourism revolution.
Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time
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But more than anything else, I heard expressions of awe at the president's preternatural certainty and wonderment about its source.
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Our Idiot Brother," about a preternaturally guileless hippie named Ned and his three weird sisters, has a title designed to tickle: Idiot brother?
'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart
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For example, I've been in the Marines for over half my life and yet I've retained a preternatural instinct for interior design.
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As a sleeping princess, her blank face and torso exaggerate rather than diminish the beauty of her preternaturally leggy dancing.
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It is preternaturally quiet, as in one of those movies in which scenes of domestic bliss are a harbinger of something truly horrible.
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Longtime Devine-watchers pointed to Stan's fondness for playing the ponies, but he's also a basketball and football enthusiast, and has had some preternaturally bad picks.
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Her pulse athrob but her senses and judgment preternaturally sharp, she gauged its dimensions as five hundred by three hundred meters.
The Game Of Empire
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With every bark, she evokes profound feelings. I am preternaturally moved by puppies.
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Gorgeous, gifted and preternaturally poised, the 24-year-old actress-singer came to Hollywood in 1941 and quickly became the first African-American movie star.
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But later, when they're over-rehearsed into being preternaturally wise and all-seeing, they start to cloy.
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The phalanges preternaturally straight, the knuckles pale and taut, the lunulae fastidiously cleared of cuticle, as perfect in their crescents as any moon over Arabia.
Kalooki Nights
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According to another, the British are preternaturally blind to the merits of modern art.
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The ground is carpeted with a grass of preternaturally vivid green and rankness of growth, mixed with a handsome fern, with a caudex a foot high, the Sadleria cyathoides, and another of exquisite beauty, the Micropia tenuifolia, which are said to be the commonest ferns on Hawaii.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Berman was preternaturally gifted at remolding people at the vulnerable, liminal moment in adolescence," he said.
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The house seemed preternaturally silent.
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At first I couldn't make out the words, just the preternaturally LOUD sound of a boy's voice flatly declaiming some sort of Important Announcement.
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Like his kinsman, he practiced his art with the aid of the portable camera obscura, but his preternatural acuity and immaculate form carried his work to the edge of hallucination.
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But few of those who have been most decided in their rejection of obsession or other preternatural or miraculous manifestations have taken any pains to examine the adducible evidence.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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They grew so tall, however, and in such preternatural numbers, that she could not see the house at all ---not a chimney pot, not a balcony.
COLDHEART CANYON
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He broke off as the door to their room opened and a sharp-faced, preternaturally thin man with spindly arms and legs tightly covered by taut sunbaked skin peered inside.
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The preternatural and superior order of the spiritual body over natural bodies is again introduced in Poem 33, which describes the claritas or divine lustre of the resurrected body.
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At any rate, the string writing is jaw-droppingly expert, particularly startling in one so young, the independence of parts preternaturally clear, without a trace of academicism.
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All it takes is a preternatural sense of musical trends and history, a cunning knack for timing, and the willingness to completely reinvent yourself.
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Her eyes were actually glowing with their own otherworldly light, and her hair seemed to be floating around her as if a strange preternatural wind was playing with it, toying with the silky tendrils.
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And for a few brief minutes the skies opened and sunlight streamed down from above, lighting the lake from within, giving the jellyfish a preternatural glow.
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Their parents had an almost preternatural ability to understand what was going on in their children's minds.
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I eased the door open silently, but the Fool's preternatural awareness served him well.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Where others at this point in their careers find themselves trapped by decades of expectations, Cale's strength has never been the vitality of youth, but rather a preternatural maturity.
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As they approach that limit they become preternaturally intelligent and violently paranoiac.
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Anger gave me preternatural strength, and I managed to force the door open.
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Perhaps we would do well to resist our acquired, self-conscious tendencies, to test our skills at preternatural listening to the rich multitude of stories issuing from the matrix of hurricanes.
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His great face was yellow and seemed in that moment of a preternatural flabbiness; his beady eyes were beadier than ever.
Captain Blood
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In those works, skies and landscapes seem filled with portents, animals convey a preternatural awareness, and lurid light touches everything with strange glamour.
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Their parents had an almost preternatural ability to understand what was going on in their children's minds.
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The shame attendant on confessing to sexual sin should not be underestimated, especially for penitents raised on preternaturally high standards with regard to purity.
