Usage examples for ultra
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Also, if he had sunk to the depths of despair, it was rather by reason of an ultra- sensitive imagination on his own part than by any fault of the Duchessa's. – Antony Gray,--Gardener by Leslie Moore
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Mr. Lecky explains this difference by his favourite hypothesis that the American Revolution was the work of a few ultra- radical leaders, with whom the people were not generally in sympathy; and he thinks we could not expect to see great heroism or self- sacrifice manifested by a people who went to war over what he calls a " money dispute." – The Critical Period of American History by John Fiske
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To it he attributed with remarkable inaccuracy, the agrarian movement in Ireland, and with it he connected the fact that Henry George's new book, " Progress and Poverty," was selling by thousands " in an ultra popular form" in the back streets and alleys of England. – The History of the Fabian Society by Edward R. Pease