superior
/sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/ adjective B1- Higher in rank, status, or quality. · Rebecca had always thought shorts were far superior to pants, as they didn't constantly make her legs itch.
- Of high standard or quality.
- Greater in size or power.
- Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
- Greater or better than average.
- Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
- Printed in superscript. · a superior figure or letter
- Located above or out; higher in position. · the superior jaw; the superior part of an image
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“Yes,” said the Horse; “if any remains out of what I am now eating I will give it you for the sake of my own superior dignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in the evening, I will give you a little sack full of barley.” The Ass replied, “Thank you.
Everywhere the last requests of a dying man are sacred; but with a sailor the last requests of his superior are commands.
He knows that I am his superior, and acknowledges it to me; but he would cut his tongue out before he would own it to any third person.
Could it have been an official superior who took the papers?
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