supersensual

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Thou supersensual, sensual wooer, A girl by the nose is leading thee.

From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Brooks, Charles Timothy

Everybody's nerves were tense, troubled by the vibrating passage of the supersensual.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May

Since perfect proof of the supersensual is beyond the span of human consciousness, the element of risk can never be eliminated: we are obliged in the end to trust the universe and live by faith.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn

The thrill it gave her was unlike the shock that she remembered receiving from the poem of his youth, the shiver they had all felt, as at the passing by of the supersensual.

From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May

"Yes," cried Victor, with transport, "yes, it is no fancy, no idle notion; the divine power is given to us, which, ruling space and time, manifests the supersensual in the world of sense."

From Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors by Various