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15 total sentences available.
There was with him a whole host of moral heroes, who, conscious of their power to win the victory , and quickened by the inspirations which they received from that higher state of being, were striving, by the excelsior movement of the soul, to attain to those glory-encircled heights from whence they could look calmly down upon the plane of their earthly existence.
Source: wiktionary
At this crisis, reverberating among the pines, rang out more distinctly the voice of the excelsior man , urging me to come on. "Oh! I'm all right down here," I answered, gasping for breath.
Source: wiktionary
All we know for certain is that our tree, now approaching a hundred years old, was excelsior – loftier than any other ash in the vicinity.
Source: wiktionary
It was clear from the first three paragraphs that the language employed by Mr Tolkien was excelsior. He was brilliant.
Source: wiktionary
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