Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance.
2
In old age he was a mere skeleton, with a long nose and eyes of preternatural brilliancy peering out of his wig.
3
The pre-existence of world-matter is assumed; sometimes too that of heaven, as the seat of the earth-maker, and that of preternatural animals, his coadjutors.