Both Uses of
manifold
in
The House of Mirth
- Her domestic duties were manifold, for they extended from furtive inspections of the servants' bedrooms to unannounced descents to the cellar; but she had never allowed herself many pleasures.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- But he let it be felt that that intimacy was a mere ripple on the surface of a rushing social current, the kind of relaxation which a man of large interests and manifold preoccupations permits himself in his hours of ease.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
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(manifold as in: reasons are manifold) many and varied