Preterhuman

And there is something pathetic in the preterhuman solicitude and preterhuman patience with which the Allies went on, week after week, and month after month, laboriously striving to persuade the Serbs, the Greeks, and the Roumanians to assent to territorial sacrifices in order to satisfy Bulgaria's claims and make possible the organisation and development of the elements of a civilised and self-sufficing system in the Penninsula.

Prominent among these “preterhuman beings”, not unnaturally, were Tuitit Bey and Serapis, as well as the – as yet unannounced – Morya and Koot Hoomi.

Some prey, a mouse probably, crept to the edge of the pavement below, sniffing, twitching, its heartbeat flashing in Trustyfriend's preterhuman hearing like a buoy light.