A sound as of music first attracted his attention; and as he looked in at the window he saw the Duchess sitting at the feet of a real gipsy-queen: her head upturned-her whole being expanding-as the gipsy's hands waved over her, and the gipsy's eyes, preternaturally dilated, poured their floods of life into her own.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
preternaturally bright they were, with the breathless look that betrays the ebbing shore of life, yet full of eager desire to remain.
"In Wild Rose Time"
Amanda M. Douglas
But the next moment he turned preternaturally solemn, and whispered: "It wouldn't be fair."
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn