Confident of being warned at need by his hearing, which was normally supersensitive and, when he was engaged as now, keyed to Preterhuman acuteness, he went coolly about the business, and at his first step found a portable reading-lamp on a long cord and coolly switched on its hooded light.
"Alias The Lone Wolf"
Louis Joseph Vance
He seemed to hold the real risk-discovery and the bullet of a sentinel-very cheap; but, magnifying imaginary difficulties after his own peculiar fashion, he had come to look upon the roof as a pass of peril, only to be accomplished by Preterhuman agility and steadiness of brain.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence
At the dead of the black-clouded night, no moon and no stars, the son of Olivier Dalibard bore away the form of the once-formidable Lucretia,-the form, for the mind was gone; that teeming, restless, and fertile intellect, which had carried along the projects with the Preterhuman energies of the fiend, was hurled into night and chaos.
"Lucretia, Volume 6."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton