"Superfluously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fled Out of the forest into which it led, And left us at the gate whose every bar Was nailed against us. But, "Oh, here we are!" My friend cried joyously. "At last, at last!" And making our horse superfluously fast, He led the way onward by what had been A lane, now hid by weeds and briers between Meadows scarce worth the mowing, to a space Shaped as by Nature for the dwelling-place Of kindly human life: a small plateau Open to the heaven that seemed ...
— The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells
... interpreting the statute in its application to his case. Everybody knows that this is a travesty of the truth, and it is surprising that any one should be charged with teaching it, or that any one should applaud himself, as though he were in the foremost files of time, for not believing it. It is superfluously apparent that the relations of God and man are not those of a magistrate on the bench pronouncing according to the act on the criminal at the bar. To say this, however, does not make these relations more intelligible. In particular, to say that they are personal, ...
— The Atonement and the Modern Mind • James Denney
... subsequent Act. The Bill of 1886 (perhaps because it never reached the Committee stage) said nothing explicit about the supremacy, though the Bill of 1893, while providing for representation at Westminster, repeatedly (and sometimes quite superfluously) affirmed it—in the Preamble, for example, and in a rider to Clause 2. The King's authority, through the Lord-Lieutenant, will be supreme in Ireland, as, through the Governors, it is supreme in the Colonies. ...
— The Framework of Home Rule • Erskine Childers
... "Quite superfluously it occurred to the German Government to make our East-Asiatic Squadron, under Admiral Diederichs, appear before Manila precisely at the moment when, in 1898, the decision was made regarding the Philippines. This was done simply out of a pointless ...
— My Three Years in America • Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff |
