All 10 Uses of
infinite
in
Hard Times
- If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more!†
Chpt 1.2 *
- Now, besides very many babies just able to walk, there happened to be in Coketown a considerable population of babies who had been walking against time towards the infinite world, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years and more.†
Chpt 1.8
- Mr. Gradgrind observed, shaking his head, that all this was very bad; that it showed the necessity of infinite grinding at the mill of knowledge, as per system, schedule, blue book, report, and tabular statements A to Z; and that Jupe 'must be kept to it.'†
Chpt 1.9
- 'Thank you!' said the old woman, with infinite content.†
Chpt 1.12
- Feeling it necessary to do something then, he stretched himself out at greater length, and, reclining with the back of his head on the end of the sofa, and smoking with an infinite assumption of negligence, turned his common face, and not too sober eyes, towards the face looking down upon him so carelessly yet so potently.†
Chpt 2.3
- Then Slackbridge, who had kept his oratorical arm extended during the going out, as if he were repressing with infinite solicitude and by a wonderful moral power the vehement passions of the multitude, applied himself to raising their spirits.†
Chpt 2.4
- But she knew from her reading infinitely more of the ways of toiling insects than of these toiling men and women.†
Chpt 2.6
- And an infinitely dreary person he appeared to me to be.†
Chpt 2.10
- The tremendous rain occasioned infinite confusion, when the train stopped at its destination.†
Chpt 2.11
- Having executed her mission with infinite relish, this high-minded woman then fainted away on Mr. Bounderby's coat-collar.†
Chpt 3.3
Definition:
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(infinite) unlimited; without boundaries; or too numerous to count