Superadding

‘Ah, no,’ said he, again applying his eye; whereupon his face lost the animation which her presence had lent it, and became immutable as that of a bust, though superadding to the serenity of repose the sensitiveness of life. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They guessed and drawled like any buckskin from Virginia, superadding to their accomplishments their insular peculiarity of always shutting one eye when they spoke to you. ❋ Various (N/A)

To Col. Col. belongs the honour of so combining obsolete and modern inventions, and superadding such improvements of his own, as to produce the first practical and really serviceable weapon. ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)

Ellis, a distinguished traveller and naturalist: -- 'As for your pretty little seed-cups, or vases, they are a sweet confirmation of the pleasure Nature seems to take in superadding an elegance of form to most of her works, wherever you find them. ❋ Various (N/A)

To go back to the old-time crowded party, superadding the increased luxury of modern entertaining, would be to re-establish an inconvenient and expensive fashion. ❋ Agnes H. Morton (N/A)

The same solidity of material which has guarantied permanence to the fame of Izaak Walton and White of Selborne will as surely secure that of Thoreau, who excels each of these writers upon his own ground, while superadding a wider culture, a loftier thought, and a fine, though fantastic, literary skill. ❋ Various (N/A)

The correspondence in relation to this incident will in due course be laid before you, and will disclose the unpardonable conduct of the official referred to in his interference by advice and counsel with the suffrages of American citizens in the very crisis of the Presidential election then near at hand, and also in his subsequent public declarations to justify his action, superadding impugnment of the ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)

They told the tale of the family tree by the coats of arms and the shields emblazoned by the cutter of wood, sometimes being enriched with colour; at others the picture forms were created by inlaying and superadding fretwork. ❋ Unknown (1900)

'A man who is converted from Protestantism to Popery may be sincere: he parts with nothing: he is only superadding to what he already had. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

Ashburton, from which my poor Jeannie (trouble with servants, &c., superadding itself) was obliged to excuse herself and send me alone, who only stayed three days. ❋ Unknown (1883)

You have remodelled the divine service of the Jewish synagogue, superadding elements of devotion and sacredness. ❋ Gustav Karpeles (1878)

American citizens in the very crisis of the Presidential election then near at hand, and also in his subsequent public declarations to justify his action, superadding impugnment of the Executive and Senate of the United ❋ Grover Cleveland (1872)

"Is ever likely to know," said the marquis, superadding a close to her sentence. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

It accordingly becomes possible to correct the chromatic aberration of one glass by superadding that of another. ❋ Unknown (1862)

They very soon relapse again into the heathenish practices of their ancestors, superadding to the same the vices of civilization. ❋ Unknown (1860)

Stephenson, like Watt, exhibited a power of selection, combination, and invention of his own, by which — while availing himself of all that had been done before him, and superadding the many skilful contrivances devised by himself — he was at length enabled to bring his engine into a condition of marvellous power and efficiency. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

Uniformity, or a near approach to it, was produced, not so much by the abolition of differences as by superadding one and the same governmental machinery in all parts of the Empire. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

The Medes and Persians appear to have been in general content to establish in each town a fortified citadel or stronghold, round which the houses were clustered, without superadding the further defence of a town wall. ❋ George Rawlinson (1857)

Dispatched round the island with divers bits of tappa, hieroglyphically stamped, he merely deposited one upon each altar; superadding a stone, to keep the missive in its place; and so went his rounds. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

And it was only afterward, that superadding sentiment and thought, he wrought out such splendid truths, which, if not precisely combined in the living reality, were so far superior that any absence in the original model appeared like a forgetfulness of nature. ❋ Teresa Guiccioli (1836)