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  • There were three hundred wells, fifty thousand date trees, and innumerable colored tents spread among them.†   (source)
  • Traditional dining tables have been replaced by innumerable stuffed sofas and chairs, some surrounding fireplaces, others beside fragrant flower gardens or ponds filled with exotic fish, so that people can eat and drink and do whatever they please in the utmost comfort.†   (source)
  • Meltwater sluiced furiously down innumerable surface and subterranean channels, creating a ghostly harmonic rumble that resonated through the body of the glacier.†   (source)
  • As true darkness fell, innumerable prairie gossamers-much paler than their forest cousins, but also of greater wingspan, luminescent shades the size of small children-danced in the vales and valleys of the gently rolling hills.†   (source)
  • The architects worried that anyone who joined the fair would find himself in the grip of innumerable committees.†   (source)
  • Fish again—myriads of minute fish, the length of his fingernail, were drifting through the water, and in a moment he could feel the innumerable tiny touches of them against his limbs.†   (source)
  • The loglo, overhead, marking out CSV-5 in twin contrails, is a body of electrical light made of innumerable cells, each cell designed in Manhattan by imageers who make more for designing a single logo than a Deliverator will make in his entire lifetime.†   (source)
  • From one of the innumerable pockets inside his jacket, Jace produced a bone-handled knife that looked capable of disemboweling a grizzly.†   (source)
  • Innumerable Jews have been killed like that, for no reason, senselessly.†   (source)
  • Wild rugged mountains rise to almost ten thousand feet, and in between them are hidden innumerable valleys full of streams, hiking trails, and high elevation meadows overflowing with sprays of wildflowers.†   (source)
  • In doing this, let us pass over innumerable boring stories: the rise and fall of empires, sagas of heroism, ballads of tragic love.†   (source)
  • He had gone there in Euclides' canoe one night when a storm at sea took them by surprise, and from that time on he would go there in the afternoons to talk to the lighthouse keeper about the innumerable marvels on land and water that the keeper had knowledge of.†   (source)
  • He knew names and places, experienced emotions without number, reviewed data of innumerable unexplored crannies.†   (source)
  • This development was called the London Halo, one of innumerable human halos and satellites and constellations springing up in the country and in the world.†   (source)
  • There was a practical black bag with innumerable zippered pockets and compartments just perfect for Patria's goodwill supplies.†   (source)
  • The upper half of the tower lay on the ground, shattered into innumerable fragments.†   (source)
  • He was one of an innumerable multitude of young male relatives whom Moody lumped under the convenient term "nephew."†   (source)
  • The Mathemagician had provided innumerable platters of division dumplings, which Milo was very careful to avoid, fin; no matter how many you ate, when you finished there was more on your plate than when you began.†   (source)
  • Having once belonged to a Zionist youth organization, they knew innumerable Hebrew chants.†   (source)
  • It falls upon the banks and the grass, separating one long blade from another; turning a drift of brown, frosted leaves from a single heap to innumerable flashing fragments; or glimmering lengthways along wet twigs as though light itself were ductile.†   (source)
  • The innumerable local camels often had more freedom than the women.†   (source)
  • They drew long and elaborate family-trees with innumerable branches.†   (source)
  • I became her official suitor without having to perform any superhuman tasks because, despite her awesome beauty and her innumerable virtues, Rosa had no other wooers.†   (source)
  • He hurried into the Red Cross building and down the two steep flights of white marble stairs to the men's washroom, where he cleansed and nursed his innumerable visible wounds with cold water and soap and straightened his shirt collar and combed his hair.†   (source)
  • Off the starboard wing of the plane Hema had a beautiful view of Bab al-Mandab—the Gate of Tears—so named because of the innumerable ships that had wrecked in that narrow strait that separated Yemen and the rest of Arabia from Africa.†   (source)
  • Modern science would still like to know what the secret ingredients were that the Egyptians used when they wrapped up dead people so that their faces would not rot for innumerable centuries.†   (source)
  • THROUGH DAYS OF TOIL ON DEFENSES, through endless hours taken up with military routine, endless problems of supply and paperwork, and the innumerable day-to-day preoccupations of those trying to carry on with the little that remained of normal civilian life, the thought that the British could appear any time was seldom out of mind.†   (source)
  • Innumerable men on horseback, wagons, and carts bulging with baggage.†   (source)
  • The painted prows of others poked from innumerable wooden sheds along the stony shores, like hounds in a kennel, lean and mean and hungry, waiting for a hunter's horn to call them forth.†   (source)
  • The pain from that wound distracted him from the worse one in his head, and from the innumerable tears where the dogs had caught him with their teeth.†   (source)
  • Drawing aside its moon-stitched curtains, David unveiled a sleigh bed, half buried beneath unwashed coffee mugs, innumerable manuscripts, half a moldy sandwich, and some sort of grimacing iguana preserved in spirits of wine.†   (source)
  • The river banks on each side of the valley were such a mass of gardens that they looked at first like forest, until you got closer and saw the white walls of innumerable houses peeping out from beneath the trees.†   (source)
  • Pig stopped the car and for a brief moment we listened to the innumerable sounds of the Congaree and the muffled thump of Dan Molligen beating rhythmically against the top of the car's trunk like a damaged heart.†   (source)
  • Her voice confirmed the appraisal; it was mid-Atlantic, refined in the better finishing schools, and at innumerable polo matches.†   (source)
  • Rows of machines surrounded by tenders and oilers pulled an astonishing web of cables past innumerable pulleys mounted on every dihedral and face.†   (source)
  • Within each of these categories I had recognized, but had been unable adequately to describe, innumerable variations.†   (source)
  • But he could see her sometimes, going around the village in her brogues and tweeds, with her notebooks and her pencils, asking innumerable questions of everyone.†   (source)
  • The Soviet delegate had quite correctly pointed out, at considerable length and upon innumerable occasions, that this was not in accordance with the Charter.†   (source)
  • I remembered with an ache certain dishes in France and Italy touched by innumerable human hands.†   (source)
  • And always there was the steady noise of the rapids, innumerable little cascades of water over rock.†   (source)
  • It seemed to Walter Benson that they'd been driving for hours when, finally, the car slowed almost to a stop and pulled off the road into what felt like a new-plowed field with innumerable stones in it, or bricks, or possibly treestumps.†   (source)
  • No, not to be looked down upon was the tremendous amount of enlightenment which lay here collected and preserved by innumerable generations of wise Brahmans.†   (source)
  • Now you could hear the crunch of innumerable footsteps on the frozen pavement.†   (source)
  • Her skin was crosshatched with the razor-fine slashes of innumerable square wrinkles and yet every slash was like smooth stone; her ear was just a fallen intricate flap with a small gold ring in it; her smell was faint yet very powerful, and she smelled like new mushrooms and old spices and sweat, like his fingernail when it was coming off.†   (source)
  • Sometimes in the middle of sowing or reaping or tilling, or the innumerable tasks the land demanded, he would stop and straighten up, breathing hard and trembling.†   (source)
  • She had always seemed to Florence the oldest woman in the world, for she often spoke of Florence and Gabriel as the children of her old age, and she had been born, innumerable years ago, during slavery, on a plantation in another state.†   (source)
  • I am convinced that the complication of public business and the competition for the public's attention have obscured innumerable acts of political courage—large and small—performed almost daily in the Senate Chamber.†   (source)
  • It could only be that Floyd missed nothing in the world, and could hear innumerable outward things.†   (source)
  • So what more natural than they would one day talk over endless coffeepots into innumerable midnights, and out of all the talk and the bitter brewings would come-- the House of Usher.†   (source)
  • Blood ran from innumerable gashes in his pelt.†   (source)
  • From the trunks they took innumerable treasures.†   (source)
  • Under Paolo's precocious leadership, innumerable games and contests were hatched.†   (source)
  • Any writing which has influenced the thinking and the lives of innumerable people is important.†   (source)
  • He rose high into the air and saw innumerable mountain-tops spread out beneath him in the moonlight.†   (source)
  • The month of March was spent working out the innumerable details of the trip.†   (source)
  • Down from the hills on either side of the Morannon poured Orcs innumerable.†   (source)
  • But the effort of thought was too great; seemed faced by innumerable humiliations and obstacles.†   (source)
  • He interfered with the twins, asked them innumerable questions about school.†   (source)
  • Innumerable chains and beads hung around her spindly neck, and her arms and hands were encrusted with bangles and rings.†   (source)
  • Surveying Dobby more closely, he noticed that the elf was also wearing several scarves and innumerable socks, so that his feet looked far too big for his body.†   (source)
  • Dumbledore's innumerable contributions to the store of Wizarding knowledge, including his discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood, will benefit generations to come, as will the wisdom he dis-played in the many judgments while Chief Warlock of the Wizen-gamot.†   (source)
  • Her hair was sticking up on end, her glasses were lopsided so that one eye was magnified more than the other; her innumerable shawls and scarves were trailing haphazardly from her shoulders, giving the impression that she was falling apart at the seams.†   (source)
  • Just as a wild guess, Hiro figures that this may represent Rife's fiber-optics network, with its innumerable local offices and nodes spread all over the world.†   (source)
  • And second, the best cloaks have innumerable little pockets that I have an irrational and overpowering attraction toward.†   (source)
  • Maybe Werner for his ten thousand small betrayals and Bernd for his innumerable crimes and Volkheimer for being the instrument, the executor of the orders, the blade of the Reich—maybe the three of them have some greater price to pay, some final sentence to be handed down.†   (source)
  • What Louie was seeing was a small fragment of a giant cottage industry, war production farmed out to innumerable private homes, schools, and small "shadow factories."†   (source)
  • And most of all, innumerable cross-flapped cardboard boxes, which he'd spent long afternoons digging through hoping to unearth an old photo album.†   (source)
  • The man they were looking for called himself an agent, though it was unclear if this was due to his specializing in travel or to his operating in secret or to some other reason, and they were to meet him in the labyrinthine gloom of a burnt-out shopping center, a ruin with innumerable exits and hiding places, which made Saeed wish he had insisted Nadia not come and made Nadia wish they had brought a torch or, failing that, a knife.†   (source)
  • Harry bellowed, as somewhere out of sight Hermione screamed, and Harry heard innumerable objects crashing to the floor on the other side of the destabilized wall: He pointed his wand at the rampart, cried, "Finite!" and it steadied.†   (source)
  • At night the lights and the infilling darkness served to mask the exposition's many flaws—among them, wrote John Ingalls in Cosmopolitan, the "unspeakable debris of innumerable luncheons"—and to create for a few hours the perfect city of Daniel Burnham's dreams.†   (source)
  • I won't describe what the accumulation of human and animal skeletons, mixed in with innumerable fish and turtle remains, looked like.†   (source)
  • Without speaking a word, he tried to follow Sarayu from place to place within the garden, but found himself easily distracted by the blends of colors; currant and vermillion reds, tangerine and chartreuse divided by platinum and fuchsia, as well as innumerable shades of greens and browns.†   (source)
  • If she ever did ask, in one of the innumerable useless ceremonies of their domestic ritual, he would not even look up from the newspaper and would reply: "Anything."†   (source)
  • The Deliverator is proud to wear the uniform, proud to drive the car, proud to march up the front walks of innumerable Burbclave homes, a grim vision in ninja black, a pizza on his shoulder, red LED digits blazing proud numbers into the night: 12:32 or 15:15 or the occasional 20:43.†   (source)
  • …women friends who came to visit her during that time, she had a bonfire built in a vacant lot behind the house, and there she burned everything that reminded her of her husband: the most expensive and elegant clothes seen in the city since the last century, the finest shoes, the hats that resembled him more than his portraits, the siesta rocking chair from which he had arisen for the last time to die, innumerable objects so tied to her life that by now they formed part of her identity.†   (source)
  • From Baltimore came a long dark train that chilled the hearts of the men and women who monitored its passage across the prairie but delighted the innumerable small boys who raced open-jawed to the railbed.†   (source)
  • To one born in a religion where the battle for a single soul can be a relay race run over many centuries, with innumerable generations passing along the baton, the quick resolution of Christianity has a dizzying effect.†   (source)
  • They had innumerable choices.†   (source)
  • However innumerable beings are, I vow to save them; however inexhaustible the passions are, I vow to extinguish them; however immeasurable the Dharmas are, I vow to master them; however incomparable the Buddha-truth is, I vow to attain it.†   (source)
  • He was still breathing, but more dead than alive, gashed with innumerable wounds, one paw crushed, and, where his tail had been, a bandaged stump.†   (source)
  • It was, in reality, the result of multiple and rare diseases contracted on his innumerable trips around the world.†   (source)
  • Hammers, saws, shouts, laughter, and innumerable other noises blended together in a happy hum of endeavor.†   (source)
  • Due to his innumerable injuries, he was deemed such a spectacularly unfit soldiering prospect that all three services rejected him.†   (source)
  • The delights of France are innumerable.†   (source)
  • Part of an innumerable company.†   (source)
  • The room seemed to have been furnished with stuff that employees could no longer bear to keep in their homes: a stomach-bile-yellow corduroy couch, a couple of black leather chairs with foam peeking out from innumerable cracks, and a Formica dining room table with six chairs.†   (source)
  • On her lap lay one of those innumerable pads of paper her husband brought home from his office, compliments of some pharmaceutical company, advertising tranquilizers or antibiotics or skin cream.†   (source)
  • Around them, the light of the lanterns dimmed, and in his mind, Eragon seemed to hear the echo of thousands of voices: an unbearable cacophony of pains and joys innumerable, echoing forth from both the present and the past.†   (source)
  • Roran stopped digging then to help sharpen the innumerable branches-which were overlapped and interlocked as much as possible-and affix the nets of brambles.†   (source)
  • On the theory (my own, and not my employers) that my time should be spent observing living wolves, I had deliberately neglected the innumerable peripheral studies which had been ordained for me by Ottawa.†   (source)
  • I was born to die one of the innumerable, handsome de la Torre girls, singled out only when some aunt or other would take hold of my face in her hand and look intently at it, exclaiming that my eyes were those of my great-aunt Graciela, that my mouth was Mamita's exactly!†   (source)
  • The city had seemed like one big island from where the Titan stood, but as Yorko rowed them closer she saw that it was many small islands close together, linked by arched stone bridges that spanned innumerable canals.†   (source)
  • Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.†   (source)
  • He went through innumerable mental versions of the speech he would deliver before the lunge, the actual twist of the bayonet, and what he would say when he turned to the newly liberated, frozen clerks.†   (source)
  • As it was late and there was great upheaval innumerable Jews had passed themselves off as non-Jews — the head of the camp decided that a general roll call would take place the following day.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him that he would never hear again a running water so beautiful, for ever blending its innumerable notes in an endless changeful music.†   (source)
  • During my wait, my mind teemed with infinite dramas and innumerable possibilities of things that might have gone wrong at Molligen's house: suspicious neighbors, dogs, cruising patrol cars, a desperate struggle in the darkness that could have left my roommates badly injured, or even the simple bad luck of Molligen spending the night out with his fiancee.†   (source)
  • The air in the ward was always warm and faintly scented with the aromas of hearths and oils and innumerable herbs that were laid on tables and patiently mortared into medicines.†   (source)
  • A thousand hackneys plied the streets, and innumerable sedan chairs, each propelled by four strong men, usually Irish, who could shout and muscle their way through traffic faster than the hackneys.†   (source)
  • Under my guidance, they have provided the means to fund the Varden's war effort, ferreted out the Black Hand-Galbatorix's network of spies that tried to assassinate Nasuada-as well as performing innumerable other services.†   (source)
  • If the curtains were drawn back and a figure peered out of one of the innumerable little windows like an eyeball trying to find a fitting socket, the children wailed, "The witch, the witch, there she is!"†   (source)
  • She filled innumerable notebooks with her private observations, recording the events of those years, thanks to which they were not erased by the mists of forgetfulness and I can now use them to reclaim her memory.†   (source)
  • Innumerable case studies were cited.†   (source)
  • Tents, camp stoves, sleeping bags, and a bundle of seven axes ( to this day I do not know why seven, for I was going to a treeless land where even one would have been superfluous ), skis, snowshoes, dog harness, a radio transceiver and innumerable boxes and bales whose contents were as inscrutable to me as to the pilot, followed in due course.†   (source)
  • Looking ahead they could see only tree-trunks of innumerable sizes and shapes: straight or bent, twisted, leaning, squat or slender, smooth or gnarled and branched; and all the stems were green or grey with moss and slimy, shaggy growths.†   (source)
  • Tweedy ensured there were cooks on hand, an officers' mess, and a medical tent where a moomenhoven named Chloe tended the innumerable bumps, bruises, and cuts that came from hard training.†   (source)
  • Even Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, who escaped three attempts on his life, survived five wounds, and emerged unscathed from innumerable battles, succumbed to that atrocious siege of waiting and sank into the miserable defeat of old age, thinking of Amaranta among the diamond-shaped patches of light in a borrowed house.†   (source)
  • With all due honesty, they told him of their daughter's traits, without omitting the fact that she had spent more than half her lifetime without speaking because she did not feel like it and not because she was unable to, as the Rumanian Rostipov had made quite clear and as Dr. Cuevas had confirmed after innumerable examinations.†   (source)
  • Max smiled at the sound of saws and hammers, the whinny of horses, and the chirping of innumerable birds as spring chased away the last remnants of winter.†   (source)
  • Collecting Nick, Max approached the table, stepping gingerly past innumerable manuscripts and scrolls and the forbidden grimoires that David had a tendency to borrow.†   (source)
  • From that day on I stood guard outside her house, pacing up and down the street like an orphaned dog, spying on her, slipping money to the gardener, engaging the maids in conversation, until I finally managed to speak to Nana, and she, God bless her, took pity on me and agreed to be our go-between, conveying my love letters, my flowers, and the innumerable boxes of licorice drops with which I tried to win Rosa's affection.†   (source)
  • In addition to repairing the main house and storage sheds, there remained the daily business of tending the livestock, preparing the fields for spring planting, gathering firewood, and innumerable other tasks whose difficulty was compounded by few tools of poor quality.†   (source)
  • The girl grinned and Max left them on that hopeful note, continuing to his command tent, a roomy pavilion where he could consult with his officers, plan exercises, and review Tweedy's innumerable reports.†   (source)
  • It was difficult to locate the Director amid the hundreds of people and creatures bustling about: Promethean Scholars, Mystics of various specialties, Agents, older students, innumerable domovoi, and a sandstone shedu boasting four unblinking faces.†   (source)
  • And always with a man, one of those innumerable men who "took her out," treating her like a sister: Mary was such a good pal!†   (source)
  • My group of rock-hard nonreaders flipped through the encyclopedias, looking at the pictures and asking me innumerable questions.†   (source)
  • Upon its housing no fire would catch; and though now and again some great beast that hauled it would go mad and spread stamping ruin among the orcs innumerable that guarded it, their bodies were cast aside from its path and others took their place.†   (source)
  • There you pilgrims shall spent the night, for there is enough space for the innumerable, who flock here, to hear the teachings from his mouth.†   (source)
  • The papers crinkled like an old man's skin, and the cremation surrounded innumerable words: "GOVERNMENT BONDS; Business Graph, 1999; Religious Prejudice: An Essay; The Science of Logistics; Problems of the Pan-American Unity; Stock Report for July 3, 1998; The War Digest …."†   (source)
  • Day after day, whether he was at home or off on one of his innumerable trips, he worked lunatic hours, often from eight in the morning until midnight, and when he asked himself why--there were many in the firm who felt no such compulsions--he could find no adequate reason, or, rather, found too many.†   (source)
  • Amid innumerable perils, Avoiding every reef and shoal The wave had borne her on and on And brought her close.†   (source)
  • This was the story of innumerable shepherds who failed, in their arrogance, to feed the hungry sheep; of many a father and mother who gave to their children not bread but a stone, who offered not the truth of God but the tinsel of this world.†   (source)
  • Then I thought in my heart that we drew near to the Sea; for wide was the water in the darkness, and sea-birds innumerable cried on its, shores.†   (source)
  • Listening in the complete silence, innumerable little noises rose from the bush, as if colonies of strange creatures had become still and watchful at their coming and were now going about their own business.†   (source)
  • Saul, to add to his innumerable problems, was not only Mrs. Brown's major supplier of facts concerning the strange, incomprehensible machinations of my class, he was also a bed-wetter.†   (source)
  • Liudmila was a handsome woman with a high bosom, a fine low-pitched singing voice, and a head full of innumerable superstitions, some of them picked up and others invented by herself.†   (source)
  • I have always thought that art is not a category, not a realm covering innumerable concepts and derivative phenomena, but that, on the contrary, it is something concentrated, strictly limited.†   (source)
  • There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their lives demands.†   (source)
  • But all the time, life, one, immense, identical throughout its innumerable combinations and transformations, fills the universe and is continually reborn.†   (source)
  • She vanished without a trace and probably died somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the innumerable mixed or women's concentration camps in the north…†   (source)
  • During the interval, she had refused tea and had slaked her thirst with innumerable tangerines, peeling them and wiping her fingers and the corners of her mouth on a handkerchief the size of a fruit blossom.†   (source)
  • There would be innumerable police, keen-eyed and alert, watching all likely spots.†   (source)
  • We are working day and night to solve the innumerable problems and to catch up.†   (source)
  • They plan innumerable journeys across country for the fun of linking up impossible connexions.†   (source)
  • In the red darkness glinted innumerable rubies.†   (source)
  • The other had so much excuse- poverty and fever and innumerable humiliations.†   (source)
  • The sunlight, filtering through innumerable leaves, was still hot on their faces.†   (source)
  • Innumerable threads there were; still, if I stopped to disentangle, I could collect a number.†   (source)
  • The street is hard and burnished with the churning of innumerable wheels.†   (source)
  • He does not know (no one can know) my innumerable contrition and weariness.†   (source)
  • Rippling small, rippling grey, innumerable waves spread beneath us.†   (source)
  • Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.†   (source)
  • Innumerable wheels rush and feet press just over my head.†   (source)
  • We too have made something that will join the innumerable congregations of past time.†   (source)
  • She said, in her odious way, "Now, Mrs. Ramsay and I want to have a little talk together," and Mrs. Ramsay could see, as if before her eyes, the innumerable miseries of his life.†   (source)
  • There need be no doubt as to how Lincoln saw the conflict; he had innumerable occasions to state his view of it to Congress, to the country, even to foreign workingmen.†   (source)
  • The floorspace was very restricted, because all round the walls were stacked innumerable dusty picture-frames.†   (source)
  • She had lowered the ceiling and the elaborate cornice which, in one form or another, graced every room was lost to view; the walls, one paneled in brocade, were stripped and washed blue and spotted with innumerable little water-colors of fond association; the air was sweet with the fresh scent of flowers and musty potpourri; her library in soft leather covers, well-read works of poetry and piety, filled a small rosewood bookcase; the chimneypiece was covered with small personal…†   (source)
  • They ran like wild colts as before, and went to see Robin when they had a mind to, and had innumerable adventures too lengthy to be recorded.†   (source)
  • I did it because I sensed that the Chief somehow feared people of my race—for the innumerable ancestors who merge within me.†   (source)
  • Innumerable beadles were fitting innumerable keys into well-oiled locks; the treasure-house was being made secure for another night.†   (source)
  • He is shaded with innumerable perplexities, or he would go with them to play cricket, and would lie in the grass, watching the sky, and would start when the ball was hit.†   (source)
  • …rose toward the terraces still bathed in the last glow of daylight, now that the noises of vehicles and motors-the sole voice of cities in ordinary times-had ceased, was but one vast rumor of low voices and incessant footfalls, the drumming of innumerable soles timed to the eerie whistling of the plague in the sultry air above, the sound of a huge concourse of people marking time, a never ending, stifling drone that, gradually swelling, filled the town from end to end, and evening…†   (source)
  • When they reached the elevated, David was compelled to ask innumerable people what the right train was, and during the whole trip, she sent him forward to plague the conductor.†   (source)
  • There was quite a lot of religion in the letter and she prayed to Saint Anthony, to the Blessed Virgin of Pilar, and to other Virgins to protect him and she wanted him never to forget that he was also protected by the Sacred Heart of Jesus that he wore still, she trusted, at all times over his own heart where it had been proven innumerable—this was underlined—times to have the power of stopping bullets.†   (source)
  • They smiled and laughed as they passed the chaired strangers, and had a friendly word for Chang; they were good-humored and mildly inquisitive, courteous and carefree, busy at innumerable jobs but not in any apparent hurry over them.†   (source)
  • As we walked, to beguile the dulness [of] innumerable winter walks we made up stories, long long stories that were taken up at the same place and added to each in turn.†   (source)
  • Those who are not called up, or else are employed during the vast business of munitions production in all its branches--and their ramifications are innumerable--will serve their country best by remaining at their ordinary work until they receive their summons.†   (source)
  • She had fussed over him and planned special dishes for him and coddled him during his innumerable colds.†   (source)
  • Double this number of angels was on the third side; whereas on the fourth side they were simply innumerable.†   (source)
  • If you tried to explain to him that men's prayers today are one of the innumerable coordinates with which the Enemy harmonises the weather of tomorrow, he would reply that then the Enemy always knew men were going to make those prayers and, if so, they did not pray freely but were predestined to do so.†   (source)
  • Now the innumerable archipelago had been threaded, and he stood, firm-planted, upon the unknown but waiting continent.†   (source)
  • And another was full of books about South Africa, Sarah Gertrude Millin's Life of Rhodes, and her book about Smuts, and Engelenburg's Life of Louis Botha, and books on South African race problems, and books on South African birds, and the Kruger Park, and innumerable others.†   (source)
  • But with the innumerable and pretty slaves running freely about the courts, I doubt if there has been anyone.†   (source)
  • Innumerable times, my friend.†   (source)
  • The crowd grew very still, and a deep, low, happy sigh, as of people who see the theatre curtain go up at last, breathed from innumerable throats.†   (source)
  • One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions.†   (source)
  • He prowled softly about the house, smoking innumerable cigarettes, cursing in brief snarling fury, touched with despair and futility.†   (source)
  • It had a haunted room in it, with innumerable doors out of which things came and fought you in the night.†   (source)
  • The bulging flanks of row on receding row and tier above tier of bottles glinted with innumerable rubies, and among the rubies moved the dim red spectres of men and women with purple eyes and all the symptoms of lupus.†   (source)
  • No age can ever have been as stridently sex-conscious as our own; those innumerable books by men about women in the British Museum are a proof of it.†   (source)
  • As President he might consult others, but innumerable grave decisions were in the end his own, and with them came a burden of responsibility terrifying in its dimensions.†   (source)
  • In spite of these innumerable hosts there was no crowding on Mount Sinai, no mob, there was room for all.†   (source)
  • Innumerable fingers, like moving trees, were still streaming past in either direction, crossing and recrossing.†   (source)
  • They were like an innumerable crowd of fish-wives on the largest grandstand in the world, breaking out into private disputes, eating out of paper bags, chipping the referee, singing comic songs, admonishing their children and complaining of their husbands.†   (source)
  • In that world of many men, coming and going, in that big house of innumerable rooms, we formed our private nucleus.†   (source)
  • She is the maiden of the innumerable dragon slayings, the bride abducted from the jealous father, the virgin rescued from the unholy lover.†   (source)
  • He asked the medical students innumerable questions about the treatment or cure of inherited blood maladies, venereal diseases, intestinal and inguinal cancers, and the transference of animal glands to men.†   (source)
  • Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble.†   (source)
  • If one shuts one's eyes and thinks of the novel as a whole, it would seem to be a creation owning a certain looking-glass likeness to life, though of course with simplifications and distortions innumerable.†   (source)
  • She wrote innumerable letters, and sometimes the wind took them and she and Charles just saved a page from the sea.†   (source)
  • These scenes, by the way, are not altogether a literary device—a means of summing up and making a knot out of innumerable little threads.†   (source)
  • She obviously had a practical cunning which Winston lacked, and she seemed also to have an exhaustive knowledge of the countryside round London, stored away from innumerable community hikes.†   (source)
  • In the fresh pre-natal morning they began their route, walking down the steep hill of Valley Street into tropical sleep, past the stabled torpor of black sleepers, past all the illicit loves, the casual and innumerable adulteries of Niggertown.†   (source)
  • Merely to read the titles suggested innumerable schoolmasters, innumerable clergymen mounting their platforms and pulpits and holding forth with loquacity which far exceeded the hour usually alloted to such discourse on this one subject.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, in the innumerable retellings of a traditional story, accidental or intentional dislocations are inevitable.†   (source)
  • The tea table, the very hearth and centre of family life, the tea table round which sat innumerable parties; on which, when Sunday came—the tea table's festival day—pink shell plates were placed, full of brown Sunday buns, full of very thin slices of white and brown bread and butter.†   (source)
  • Psyche's voyage to the underworld is but one of innumerable such adventures undertaken by the heroes of fairy tale and myth.†   (source)
  • Hundreds of women began as the eighteenth century drew on to add to their pin money, or to come to the rescue of their families by making translations or writing the innumerable bad novels which have ceased to be recorded even in text-books, but are to be picked up in the fourpenny boxes in the Charing Cross Road.†   (source)
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