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  • It was a place of heathenism and superstitious rites, -- to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to wild animals than we…… What is it to be admitted to a museum, to see a myriad of particular things, compared with being shown some star's surface, some hard matter in its home!†   (source)
  • Edgar was working the myriad tangles in Essay's tail and she wasn't enjoying it.†   (source)
  • The gendarmes started sifting through the clothes and the myriad of gifts I had brought for my host family.†   (source)
  • The uniforms reinforced the myriad other signals around us: the prisoners were owned by the state.†   (source)
  • Within weeks, several more Atbash code words were uncovered in the Old Testament, unveiling myriad hidden meanings that scholars had no idea were there.†   (source)
  • The lack of treatment makes compliance with the myriad rules that define prison life impossible for many disabled people.†   (source)
  • The sudden light in the kitchen sent a resident mouse into rapid, abandonment of its investigations of the bread box; the light also surprised me, because it turned the myriad Colonial-style windowpanes into fragmented mirror images of myself—there instantly appeared to be many of me, standing outside the house, looking in at me.†   (source)
  • To the untrained eye, and unless you were directly in front of a mirror and glimpsed your own reflection-a thing not so likely, considering the complicated overlap of mirrors at myriad angles, the fragmented nature of their reflections-the camp was invisible.†   (source)
  • She has a myriad of toys that Nancy and Phillip have brought her.†   (source)
  • Like a myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the transparencies came scavenging over the beach.†   (source)
  • …M.D., et al. (CV-01065 and 06–2301); Tilousi v. Arizona State University Board of Re gents (04-CV-1290); Metabolite Laboratories, Inc., and Competitive Technologies, Inc., v. Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (03–1120); Association for Molecular Pathology et al. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office; Myriad Genetics et al. (case documents online at aclu.org/brca/); and Bearder et al. v. State of Minnesota and MDH (complaint online at cchconline.org/pr/pro31109. php).†   (source)
  • Danny was hunched over the first of the five battered primers Jack had dug up by culling mercilessly through Boulder's myriad secondhand bookshops.†   (source)
  • There are myriad uses for it, limited only by your ingenuity.†   (source)
  • As we spoke, nurses began unwinding his soiled bandages, exposing a myriad of shallow slices all over his forehead and left cheek.†   (source)
  • In the following few minutes he ran through the myriad of tasks we must complete after hours in first phase.†   (source)
  • The only real certainty was the disruption that would be caused by long-distance travel and the myriad other difficulties inherent in building a complex structure far from home.†   (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 sonnet has been a big part of English poetry since the 1500s, and there are a few major types of sonnet and myriad variations.†   (source)
  • Since the photo—she was eighteen then, angry and unsure—Mae had gained much-needed weight, her face had softened and curves appeared, curves that brought the attention of men of myriad ages and motives.†   (source)
  • When Hiro goes into the Metaverse and looks down the Street and sees buildings and electric signs stretching off into the darkness, disappearing over the curve of the globe, he is actually staring at the graphic representations-the user interfaces-of a myriad different pieces of software that have been engineered by major corporations.†   (source)
  • Unlike me, she cared about the myriad pop musical distinctions: punk, indie, alternative, hard-core, emo-core.†   (source)
  • The dense foliage came right up to the window ledge, and although there was no glass in the opening, none of the myriad bugs that flitted through the late-evening air entered the room.†   (source)
  • The pointless tasks, the myriad sacrifices, the endless small surrenders.†   (source)
  • In fact, I doubt that any of us were prepared for the response of reporters and the myriad questions they asked.†   (source)
  • He thought that our world was only one of a myriad of worlds that evolve and dissolve in something he called the boundless.†   (source)
  • Even a half-remembrance of this episode, along with myriad other humiliations, defeats, and emasculations, could stir him into flights of depravity that surprised himself—but only himself.†   (source)
  • He was regaling her with the myriad nicknames in his own family as they neared the steep, narrow part of National Highway 3 that scales down Morne Kabrit, Goat Mountain, toward the Cul-de-Sac Plain.†   (source)
  • Though Mrs. Clutter Stored her clothes in the closets of this room, and kept her few cosmetics and her myriad medicines in the blue-tile-and-glass-brick bathroom adjoining it, she had taken for serious occupancy Eveanna's former bedroom, which, like Nancy's and Kenyon's rooms, was on the second floor.†   (source)
  • On the following morning we solemnly dressed in black, preparing to accompany the family and myriad relatives to the cemetery.†   (source)
  • In retrospect, I realized that the authorities could have had a myriad of ways of locating me on my trip to Durban.†   (source)
  • The red rays flickered in and out of the grass stems, flashing minutely on membranous wings, casting long shadows behind the thinnest of filamentary legs, breaking each patch of bare soil into a myriad individual grains.†   (source)
  • Below him the road wound, a dimly conjectured, wavering gray ribbon; on the other side of it the steep slope took off to a gulf of inky shadow, where the great valley lay, hushed under the solemn stars, silent, black, and shimmering with a myriad pulsating electric lights which glowed like swarms of fireflies caught in an invisible net.†   (source)
  • She hesitated for a second, then finally leaned into him, myriad conflicting feelings rushing through her.†   (source)
  • To be sure, the legalization of abortion in the United States had myriad consequences.†   (source)
  • A large "cage" of tools, where the shop clerk sat, contained everything from band saws to Hilti drills and myriad types of special screwdrivers, pliers, wire cutters, and individual tool belts loaded with complete sets of the basics—a whole room filled with potentially murderous objects.†   (source)
  • Before the late sixties submarines could barely approach the peaks, much less probe their myriad valleys.†   (source)
  • What are the myriad possibilities?†   (source)
  • Once people see that there are solutions, they will be more willing to help in myriad other ways.†   (source)
  • For the first few weeks in Iraq, while Adam's teammates were conducting special reconnaissance, sniper missions, and raids—capturing or killing insurgents, clearing houses, and gathering intelligence—Adam tirelessly performed a myriad of support tasks while based in the northern city of Mosul.†   (source)
  • Maybe it turns the carrier into a kind of human lie detector, gathering and collating data from a myriad of sensory inputs and funneling it through the hub for interpretation and analysis.†   (source)
  • And Ethir Anduin he saw, the mighty delta of the River, and myriads of sea-birds whirling like a white dust in the sun, and beneath them a green and silver sea, rippling in endless lines.†   (source)
  • Over the long, low row of pointed roofs were the massive shapes of oak trees in the dark, great swaying forms of myriad sounds under the lowhung stars.†   (source)
  • There was a jumble of modernity; a myriad of women showing their bare calves, and men in vests and pleated pants; an uproar of workers drilling holes in the pavement, knocking down trees to make room for telephone poles, knocking down telephone poles to make room for buildings, knocking down buildings to plant trees; a blockade of itinerant vendors hawking the wonders of this grindstone, that toasted peanut, this little doll that dances by itself without a single wire or thread, look…†   (source)
  • Wind whistling up through the jagged gash in the floor kept the myriad bits of paper circulating like alabaster particles in a paperweight and contributed to a sensation of lacquered, waterlogged unreality.†   (source)
  • D'Ablo's screams echoed in the lobby of the empty office building, blending with a myriad of curse words in every language he could think of, including one that Vlad guessed to be Elysian code.†   (source)
  • In the end, by compiling their responses, you'll have your own understanding of the term, in all its myriad meanings.†   (source)
  • On the other side of the face he'd removed all subcutaneous tissue and fat to reveal the myriad muscles of expression whose concerted movements in life had conveyed her sorrow, joy, and every emotion in between.†   (source)
  • A myriad of crisscrossing lash marks sprang up across the demon's scaled skin, dripping blood and ichor.†   (source)
  • He glanced down at the control panel before him, a myriad display of buttons and lights, and pushed one near his left hand, only to realize at the last minute it was the wrong choice.†   (source)
  • The walls were dilapidated structures made of cinder blocks, whose grouting had seeped through myriad cracks only to freeze in midflow like some sort of concrete moss.†   (source)
  • He could clam up and hasten the inevitable smashing of bones or electrocution or a myriad of other techniques perfected in these deserts.†   (source)
  • I hurried, the sound drawing closer, myriad-voiced, humming, enfolding me, numbing the air, as I started beneath the ramp.†   (source)
  • She scanned the controls, the patiently blinking lights, the myriad screens and gauges.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in those myriad pages was a name that linked a man or a woman to Carlos the Jackal.†   (source)
  • In myriad minor ways, it was to her father that the girl first turned.†   (source)
  • "The gift of the Many-Faced God takes myriad forms," the kindly man told her, "but here it is always gentle."†   (source)
  • He was nothing, the smallest particle of dust surrounded by a myriad of other particles of dust, and put all together, they were…nothing but dust.†   (source)
  • But she also has a fiercely independent streak, breaking White House protocol by refusing to attend the myriad teas and social functions other First Ladies have endured.†   (source)
  • The Agent sat upright, his eyes thin slivers of ice as he listened for the approach of conductors, police, or any of the other myriad officials.†   (source)
  • My edges blur into everything else—other people's humors and emotions, the painful sunlight, the myriad sensations—until I cannot tell where the world begins and I leave off.†   (source)
  • We generated background studies, psychological assessments, daily chronologies, myriad facts and extrapolations.†   (source)
  • It's no joke, trying to find my way back downstairs through the myriad hallways and staircases that seem to make up Château Mirac, but I manage somehow to end up in the marble foyer, and slip outside into the soft, sweetly scented summer air.†   (source)
  • The diamond-filled runes caught the glow of the forge and sent a myriad of reflections dancing about the room.†   (source)
  • The great roar was composed of a thousand different rips and whispers, most incredible noise he had ever heard or imagined, like a great orchestra of death, all the sounds of myriad death: the whicker-whicker of certain shells, the weird thin scream of others, the truly frightful sound made by one strange species that came every few moments, an indescribable keening, like old Death as a woman gone mad and a-hunting you, screaming, that would be the Whitworth, new English cannon the…†   (source)
  • There was only the matter of her confession, which would be recorded for dissemination on ISIS's myriad propaganda platforms, and her execution, which would be by beheading.†   (source)
  • And then his voice, transmuted back into what I had always conceived as Educated High Brooklyn, became a snarl of such ferocity that even the myriad intervening and humming electronic synapses could not filter out the force of its crazed but human rage.†   (source)
  • Now I had moved through a galaxy of states, each with its own character, and through clouds and myriads of people, and ahead of me lay an area, the South, that I dreaded to see and yet I must see and hear.†   (source)
  • But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper, you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental and moral shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there were no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).†   (source)
  • It had changed the face of our village beyond recognition and altered the lives of its inhabitants in a myriad ways.†   (source)
  • For a moment his love went like sound into a myriad life and was divided among all the people in his room.†   (source)
  • On either side of them, along the overhanging niche, the cliff was pocked with myriad caves.†   (source)
  • I have witnessed human minds affecting the physical world in myriad ways.†   (source)
  • She wanted everything—all seven rooms and their myriad tasks—done in five days.†   (source)
  • And please tell her, tell her that I cannot know the myriad consequences of what I set into motion.†   (source)
  • This has already been achieved in myriad ways, of course.†   (source)
  • After they ate, Orik guided Eragon through myriad corridors to their destination.†   (source)
  • As she stood there, she suddenly felt a myriad of colors exploding in her head.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, he was exhausted, the myriad of emotions having taken their toll.†   (source)
  • Myriads of little creatures scampered and darted everywhere, each alive within its own glory.†   (source)
  • Why should I spend my days out here, with the myriad delights of Pentos close at hand?†   (source)
  • He could only imagine the myriad of thoughts and emotions that surged through the crowd.†   (source)
  • Johnny found myriad avenues of distraction from his family's penury.†   (source)
  • We need captains whom we can trust to deal with the myriad conflicts springing up around us.†   (source)
  • Zeus immediately put his nose to the ground, sifting through myriad fallen branches.†   (source)
  • One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it.†   (source)
  • A myriad issues await your decision, and you stand here blowing smoke and playing with quicksilver?†   (source)
  • Would we be trying to fill myriad holes in our life?†   (source)
  • Myriad other voices whispered echoes…. and know …. know …. know …. know ….†   (source)
  • But he had to control his revulsion and concentrate on the myriad images.†   (source)
  • The wind blew, the trees shook their myriads of leaves.†   (source)
  • Bourne sat down and concentrated on the myriad buttons below him.†   (source)
  • Or go where you list, through Twenty Universes and myriad worlds.†   (source)
  • He was listening, Jan knew, to the myriad creatures )f the sea talking together.†   (source)
  • George wondered how long it would take the myriads of patient polyps to repair the damage.†   (source)
  • In striking contrast to the harshness of our surroundings stood the myriad Creature comforts of the Adventure Consultants camp, home to fourteen Westerners-the Sberpas referred to us collectively as r ,-and fourteen Sherpas. our mess tent) a cavmembers" or "sahibs the table, was furnished with an enormous sto ernous canvas structure a stereo system, a library, and solarpowered electric lights; an adiashower s tent housed a satellite phone and fax.†   (source)
  • Our first real conversation, that is, discounting myriad times she had asked me to fetch this or carry that.†   (source)
  • Their handheld metal detector was rendered worthless by the myriad of electronic devices on Kohler's wheelchair.†   (source)
  • It was a task that was growing in complexity as I handled more cases and saw the myriad ways that things could go wrong.†   (source)
  • These examples represent only the tip of the iceberg for the perennially abused Shrew: its plot seems to be permanently available to be moved in time and space, adapted, altered, updated, set to music, reimagined in myriad ways.†   (source)
  • In fact, Mal'akh was driving only between his garage and his front yard, where he had left several of his myriad cars parked askew with the headlights on and the engines running.†   (source)
  • They have all subscribed to CIC's twenty-four-hour Raft Report, getting the latest news flash, straight from the satellite, on when the Latest contingent of twenty-five thousand starving Eurasians has cut itself loose from the Enterprise and started dipping its myriad oars into the Pacific, like ant legs.†   (source)
  • I bet I could get some decent cash for it on eBay—I'd like to keep some cash coming in—but I can't do it, because that would create an electronic trail, and I've read plenty about those from my myriad true-crime books.†   (source)
  • Many, in the generation before mine believed that maybe they did, but they had the rug pulled out from under them by cuts in programs like the Pell Grants or by the myriad setbacks that came with the age of crack.†   (source)
  • Myriad has been accused of creating a monopoly, since no one else can offer the test, and researchers can't develop cheaper tests or new therapies without getting permission from Myriad and paying steep licensing fees.†   (source)
  • The urge to catalog the myriad blunders in order to "learn from the mistakes" is for the most part an exercise in denial and selfdeception.†   (source)
  • And the look, the myriad of looks, on Tariq: of apprehension, tenderness, apology, embarrassment, but mostly, mostly, of hunger.†   (source)
  • The Dutch group's strategy was to ignore the giant multinational drug companies, the ones that mainly rely on research and brand names and patent protection, and to deal instead with the myriad smaller companies that make and sell, at greatly reduced prices, already invented generic drugs under different names (as acetaminophen instead of Tylenol in the United States, for instance).†   (source)
  • Motivated by a misguided desire to help his fellow man, Wilson had concluded that climbing Everest would be the perfect way to publicize his belief that the myriad ills of humankind could be cured through a combination of fasting and faith in the powers of God.†   (source)
  • I remember the first time I imagined it, not two months after we began dating: I was walking from my apartment in Kips Bay to a favorite pocket park along the East River, a path that took me past the giant LEGO block of the United Nations headquarters, the flags of myriad countries fluttering in the wind.†   (source)
  • As his sight faded, Saphira, Arya, the myriad fragments-all seemed to stop falling and hang motionless in the air.†   (source)
  • That night, I dreamt I was at a beach, standing waist-deep in the ocean, water that was myriad shades of green and blue, jade, sapphire, emerald, turquoise, gently rocking at my hips.†   (source)
  • There were millions of people out there who no doubt would stand behind Annie, and would show their support in myriad unexpected and heartfelt ways.†   (source)
  • Apart from these, the twentieth century has naturally also been influenced by what we might call Neo-Marxism in a myriad of various trends.†   (source)
  • After Giti's death, and the thousands of rounds fired and myriad rockets that had fallen on Kabul, it was the sight of that single round hole in the gate, less than three fingers away from where Laila's head had been, that shook Mammy awake.†   (source)
  • And some enforce their patents aggressively: Myriad Genetics, which holds the patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes responsible for most cases of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, charges $3,000 to test for the genes.†   (source)
  • And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium, and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking, above all else, something like a state of grace, less virtuous, motives of course for some Everesters myriad other came into play, as well: minor celebrity, career advancement, ego massage ordinary bragging rights, filthy lucre.†   (source)
  • And at myriad random moments.†   (source)
  • A bluish light filtered in through the stained-glass windows revealing a myriad of tiny particles of dust hovering in the air.†   (source)
  • In May 2009 the American Civil Liberties Union, several breast-cancer survivors, and professional groups representing more than 150,000 scientists sued Myriad Genetics over its breast-cancer gene patents.†   (source)
  • Scientists who've gone ahead with research involving the breast-cancer genes without Myriad's permission have found themselves on the receiving end of cease-and-desist letters and threats of litigation.†   (source)
  • They would stop and huddle underneath a tree until the storm abated, but even then water cached in the myriad branches would, at the slightest provocation, shower them with droplets for hours afterward.†   (source)
  • The soldiers soon broke and ran in the face of the Varden's overwhelming strength, fleeing down the myriad side streets and alleys that branched off the thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • The chauffeur aimed above the walled brick railing, pulling the trigger twice, the muffled reports indistinguishable from the myriad of distant sounds of the city.†   (source)
  • But ever since my decision to leave Japan for good, I hadn't wished to think at length about women and intimate relations and companionship, for I knew there would be myriad difficulties ahead of me, in setting up my small bit of commerce, and other things in life.†   (source)
  • The airfield lights were strong, but they created myriad shadows, darker pockets within the darkness.†   (source)
  • There must be thirty windows or more on the front of the house, a half dozen chimneys rising from its myriad of rooftops.†   (source)
  • Cressen owned no hollow rings, such as the poisoners of Lys were said to favor, but a myriad of pockets great and small were sewn inside the loose sleeves of his robe.†   (source)
  • The Howards spent their time sorting through myriad sympathy notes from fans, some of whom enclosed bottles of remedies for the horse.†   (source)
  • Their thinking goes like this: since I control the car, I am the one keeping myself safe; since I have no control of the airplane, I am at the mercy of myriad external factors.†   (source)
  • If the professor's field was limitless, requiring a breadth of knowledge that extended from heart failure to poliomyelitis and myriad conditions in between, she chose a field that had some boundaries and a mechanical component—operations.†   (source)
  • That is, when they weren't talking about one of the other myriad, inexplicable things they had in common, including but not limited to a love of movies, the pros and cons of various college majors, and, of course, picking on me.†   (source)
  • Some children ducked inside doorways; some dove under carts; others climbed trees; but most made their way toward the Rio de la Silla whose craggy banks offered a myriad of hiding places where they would wait until dark when it was safe to come home.†   (source)
  • Intimidated as he was by Colonel Cathcart, he nevertheless found it easier to brave his displeasure than to decline the thoughtful invitation of his two new friends, whom he had met on one of his hospital visits just a few weeks before and who had worked so effectively to insulate him against the myriad social vicissitudes involved in his official duty to live on closest terms of familiarity with more than nine hundred unfamiliar officers and enlisted men who thought him an odd duck.†   (source)
  • And why Valentine can do things like take the curse off Hodge— "Valentine has had years of experimenting on himself in a myriad of ways," said Jocelyn.†   (source)
  • When the noise and the pain had subsided, he lowered his hands and staggered to his feet, clenching his teeth as his injuries announced their presence with a myriad of unpleasant sensations.†   (source)
  • Not here]' Gunfire suddenly filled the winds off the water, staccato bursts that joined the myriad sounds of the harbour.†   (source)
  • Essey, Nasserine, zohreh, Fereshteh one of them or any of the myriad of Moody's nieces in this room might and probably would, tell Moody that I had made a wish.†   (source)
  • It was as if even the birds had shunned this place, as well as all the myriad creatures that should have been moving about the banks of this stream.†   (source)
  • He stood perfectly straight over the control board, his eyes tracing the myriad dials and gauges in a regular pattern, one hand poised over the SCRAM switch, the other over the emergency cooling controls.†   (source)
  • David's carvings upon the door and the myriad of spells now seemed a quaint design to welcome visitors who traveled the cobbled roads from the outlying farms and small settlements.†   (source)
  • This face brought back the darkness and torrential winds in the night sky, explosions coming one after another, sounds of a staccato gunfire echoing through the myriad tunnels of a jungle.†   (source)
  • Within were three long hooded cloaks made from myriad small squares of cloth sewn together, three cudgels, three shortswords, three masks of polished brass.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the thrashing of his arms, the thudding of his feet on dirt, the slick chill of sweat under his arms, and a myriad of other sensations would, by their sheer weight and number, force him to forget.†   (source)
  • In a few seconds the ground was covered with water and over it, to a height of inches, rose a haze formed of a myriad minute splashes.†   (source)
  • It seemed to sprout from solid rock, its pale roots twisting up from a myriad of fissures and hairline cracks.†   (source)
  • He started to leave, but then realized that once again he had neglected to keep watch over the myriad other insects and animals in the glade.†   (source)
  • Strickland studied the faded tapestries on the walls, the arched windows with their myriad diamond-shaped panes of red and white glass, the racks of spears and swords and war-hammers.†   (source)
  • There are scores and scores of his versions scattered about the room, myriad trunks of him, thistling branches, specied and catalogued, a thousand stills of him from every possible angle.†   (source)
  • The consul's suggestion was to find him asylum somewhere and, in exchange, gradually absorb his myriad assets in Europe.†   (source)
  • Afterwards Cesar reviewed the myriad of secret hand signals, intricate gestures letting the team know when to swing away, bunt or let pitches pass; what to do when running the bases; where to position themselves on defense; and what pitches to throw.†   (source)
  • The hat was the first of myriad lines of signature products: toys, commemorative wastebaskets, two varieties of oranges.†   (source)
  • The main house boasted eight bedrooms, but even these were getting crowded now that there were so many children, along with Max, Isabella, and little Gianna, who was teething and often testy Nearing the farmhouse, they heard a myriad of familiar sounds.†   (source)
  • The work paid off: Fitzsimmons had cultivated the talents of myriad champions, including Gallant Fox and Omaha, two of the first three horses to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes—the Triple Crown.†   (source)
  • "Slushaytye!" blared the myriad loudspeakers around the tunnel, demanding attention, as indeed the explosions began to diminish.†   (source)
  • Myriad delights.†   (source)
  • Outside, the great city murmured and thrummed and seethed, all its myriad voices blending into one low sound like the surge of the sea.†   (source)
  • Great stretches of the long grass, once the teeming jungle of summer, were almost deserted, with only a hurrying beetle or a torpid spider left out of all the myriads of August.†   (source)
  • He rarely succeeded, but he persisted, and gradually he traced a myriad of connections between the events and emotions of Sloan's life, and thereby he wove a tangled web, the patterns of which represented who Sloan was.†   (source)
  • A maze of tables laden with a fantastic array of alembics, beakers, and retorts confronted them, like a glass thicket waiting to snag their dresses on any one of its myriad fragile branches.†   (source)
  • Where grey men had sat grey horses armed with shadow spears, the points of ten thousand lances now glinted silverly cold, and on the myriad flapping banners Catelyn saw the blush of red and pink and orange, the richness of blues and browns, the blaze of gold and yellow.†   (source)
  • He came to his partnership with Seabiscuit after years as a part-time prizefighter and failing jockey, lugging his saddle through myriad places, getting punched bloody in cow-town boxing rings, sleeping on stall floors.†   (source)
  • The wind freshened, and soon myriads of dry beech leaves were filling the ditches and hollows and blowing in gusts across the dark miles of open grass.†   (source)
  • There was no friendly jungle now, but there was everything he could use-Delta could use-the darkness, the intermittent blocks of shadows from the myriad clouds intercepting the moonlight.†   (source)
  • He memorized the words of making, binding, and summoning; learned the true names of plants and animals; and studied the perils of transmutation, how to call upon the wind and the sea, and the myriad skills needed to understand the forces of the world.†   (source)
  • From the moment Bourne emerged from the deep underground tunnel below the water with its guards, gates and myriad cameras, he was as close to being in a state of shock while still being able to keep walking, observing, absorbing, thinking.†   (source)
  • Under the northern steep of the down the air had been still, but here the southerly breeze was magnified by the elms, with their myriads of small, fluttering leaves, just as the effect of sunlight on a garden is magnified by dew.†   (source)
  • Pitchmen yelled above the din, nasally hawking their wares in monotonic harangues while erratic explosions in the sky lit up the darkness, sending sprays of myriad fireworks cascading over a small adjacent black lake.†   (source)
  • Very gently he eased himself in on his side and turned slowly and laced his fingers behind his head and stared at the myriads of tiny colored dots that make up darkness.†   (source)
  • Movement everywhere: a myriad arms, rising and falling, hands flailing, backs bending and straightening in a relentless rhythm.†   (source)
  • Center, with disease practically conquered, great prosperity, and lodestone of a myriad peoples, had grown too crowded, especially when Long-Life sent skyward the average age of death.†   (source)
  • Yet there was life here, for the surface was covered with a myriad geometrical patterns that crawled and moved and changed their colour.†   (source)
  • There were myriads of performers, amateur and professional, yet there had, been no really outstanding new works of literature, music, painting or sculpture for a generation.†   (source)
  • Quentin had grown up with that; the mere names were interchangeable and almost myriad.†   (source)
  • Beyond the open window the steady insects pulse and beat, drowsy and myriad.†   (source)
  • On the long flank of it the rain crashes steadily, myriad, fluctuant.†   (source)
  • Out of the slow blur of a myriad meaningless faces, one condensed into all meaning.†   (source)
  • His mind seemed to have burst into myriads of razor-edged shards hurtling through his skull.†   (source)
  • Life, ruddered life, that would not fail, began its myriad embarkations.†   (source)
  • He hears above his heart the thunder increase, myriad and drumming.†   (source)
  • Even the grass sticks up with its myriad blades.†   (source)
  • From the myriads of mankind and all time past he had chosen one person, one moment in particular.†   (source)
  • Through the open window there comes now only the peaceful and myriad sounds of the summer night.†   (source)
  • Through the open window comes the hot, myriad silence of the breathless night.†   (source)
  • Night, the myriad rustle of tiny wings.†   (source)
  • The immediate fear and suffering of the humans is a legitimate and pleasing refreshment for our myriads of toiling workers.†   (source)
  • On the second side were sixty myriads, three thousand five hundred and fifty angels, each bearing a crown of fire for each individual Israelite.†   (source)
  • She was a brown little creature, with skinny legs like a bird and a myriad of pigtails carefully wrapped with twine sticking stiffly out from her head.†   (source)
  • And there is ripple and laughter like the dance of olive trees and their myriad-tongued grey leaves when a seafarer, biting a twig between his lips where the many-backed steep hills come down, leaps on shore.†   (source)
  • And here I speak particularly of the myriad cottage or apartment homes where the wage-earner strives amid the accidents and difficulties of life to guard his wife and children from privation and bring the family up in the fear of the Lord, or upon ethical conceptions which often play their potent part.†   (source)
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