Superb

Things known as Superb include:

  • Škoda Superb car
  • HMS Superb, nine Royal Navy ships
  • The Superb, a railroad car used by US President Warren G. Harding
  • SuperB, a proposed particle physics facility in Italy
  • Grevillea 'Superb, a widely grown grevillea (shrub) cultivar
  • Several species of birds:
    • Superb Bird of Paradise
    • Superb Fairy-wren
    • Superb Fruit Dove
    • Superb Lyrebird
    • Superb Parrot
    • Superb Pitta
    • Superb Starling
    • Superb Sunbird

Famous quotes containing the word superb:

    “So in majestic cadence rise and fall
    The mighty undulations of thy song,
    O sightless bard, England’s Monides!
    And ever and anon, high over all
    Uplifted, a ninth wave superb and strong,
    Floods all the soul with its melodious seas.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week’s seasickness to experience.... To me the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)