Beyond a normal person's power

Usage examples of superhuman.

Hence if natural religion be defined roughly as a belief in superhuman spiritual beings and an attempt to propitiate them, we may perhaps say that, while natural religion has slain its thousands, magic has slain its ten thousands.

She then returned to her room, calling for help as loudly as she could, when suddenly her window, which was twenty feet from the ground, was opened, a young peasant jumped into the chamber, seized her in his arms, and with superhuman skill and strength conveyed her to the turf of the grass-plot, where she fainted.

To impress women and children with an idea of the superhuman strength of the dragon deep grooves are cut in the trunks of trees and afterwards exhibited to the uninitiated as the marks made by the monster in tugging at the ropes which bound him to the trees.

No insect-like, vermiculate or crustacean Abominable, no twitching feelers, rasping wings, slimy coils, curling tentacles, no monstrous union of superhuman intelligence and insatiable cruelty seemed to him anything but likely on an alien world.

The huge Ashanti was almost the twin of Lothkal, whom The Shadow had overcome only by a superhuman fight.

In the end Blix had to help him out, disentangling the lines foot by foot with a patience that seemed to Condy little short of superhuman.

I felt possessed by something superhuman, a primeval goatishness that laughed at the laws of men.

With a superhuman effort, Haz ripped the arrow from his gut and tried to stab Uskban with it.

He sprang into popularity in 1919-20, when, under the influence of their superhuman suffering, the Russian intellectuals were more than usually open to the lure of mystic moods.

A being such as Kwa, if his claims were genuine, would have a superhuman power which he could direct against nonbelievers.

The Eighteen Lohans glided closely behind him, hovering above the ground and moving at what seemed superhuman speed.

Aunt Sibylla Cradlebow, the speaker, was tall and dark-eyed, with an almost superhuman litheness of body, and a weird, beautiful face.

Pedaling with superhuman speedor, rather, appearing to, because in reality the bicycle was pedaling himBill Soames vanished down the road in a cloud of dust, his thin, terrified wail drifting back across the summerlike heat.

The frail, aged and nearly naked little man with his silvery beard and long metal staff formed a weird contrast with the green-skinned Titaness, robed in Her superhuman majesty and might .

One hears, for example, that the superhuman giant Tityus, when his body was stretched out at full length, covered nine acres.