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  • After an immeasurable period of time, she went out into the corridor and along to the end where there was an open door to an unused bedroom.†   (source)
  • And in the end, when Israel walked straight into the werewolf's body and held its awful dark heart in his hand, "shivering and jerking like a fish out of water," Fayge said, her own hand moving in the same way, that awful heart was rilled with "immeasurable pain.†   (source)
  • …of a defunct German tractor company and an award-winning shih-tzu dog; it's a seaside resort in Poland, an advertising firm in Switzerland, a Danish boat where people gather to drink vodka and watch films, and a Marvel comic book character who appears in several online games: a seven-foot-tall, half-black, half-white goddess who's part dead and part alive, with "immeasurable" intelligence, "superhuman" strength, "godlike" stamina and durability, and five hundred pounds of solid muscle.†   (source)
  • We sat like that for another immeasurable moment; I wondered if he could be as unwilling to move as I was.†   (source)
  • Sophie was watching Hekate as Scathach spoke, and for an instant she glimpsed something dark and immeasurably old behind the girl's eyes.†   (source)
  • We've never had to worry about having an immeasurably precious object with us before.†   (source)
  • I feel immeasurably calmer when we go back outside, even if Rachel is still there, standing down at the bottom of the garden by the fence, watching one of the trains go past.†   (source)
  • My appreciation of music had grown immeasurably through Nathaniel.†   (source)
  • Staring out into the immeasurably vast sea of stars, Wells could easily imagine that they were the only two living things in the entire universe.†   (source)
  • You could say that every single thought must be weighed and measured, rather in the way Galileo wanted everything to be measured and everything immeasurable to be made measurable.†   (source)
  • But the Minister has helped us immeasurably, and I had no choice.†   (source)
  • Ah, but it's not that easy, for you and Eragon are practically brothers, and that complicates things immeasurably.†   (source)
  • His case had just grown immeasurably more difficult, but maybe that was offset by the fact that his relationship with his client had gotten easier.†   (source)
  • Cass discovered that she loved him during the fearful, immeasurable second that she stood there watching him.†   (source)
  • Alec Bings set up an enormous telescope and invited everyone to see the other side of the moon, and the Humbug wandered through the crowd accepting congratulations and recounting in great detail his brave exploits, most of which gained immeasurably in the telling.†   (source)
  • He'd always noticed and remembered things that other people didn't, a trait that had helped him immeasurably in his years working CID.†   (source)
  • It was safe in the air, high above the immeasurable forest, but down there ….†   (source)
  • Her skin was stuck to her ribs and her breathing was forced because of an immeasurable exhaustion.†   (source)
  • I settled into rituals, which improved the quality of my existence immeasurably.†   (source)
  • The silence of the horses had been immeasurably more unnerving than the gods in their temple.†   (source)
  • Bent over the carcass in this cave, his forearms slick with blood, Hussein seemed to Mortenson immeasurably removed from his days of scholarship on the sweltering plains of the Punjab.†   (source)
  • But as he later wrote, instead of encountering "wild Indians," he was surprised to admit that the Pima "surpassed the Christian nations in agriculture" and were "immeasurably before them in honesty and virtue."†   (source)
  • The voice seemed far away and immeasurably dreary, sometimes high in the air and thin, sometimes like a low moan from the ground.†   (source)
  • She wants you to be happy,' he was saying with that same immeasurable confidence.†   (source)
  • He was aided immeasurably by Hungry Joe's nightmares.†   (source)
  • It is an aim in which I've received immeasurable assistance and support.†   (source)
  • The council had been clear: "Bring us Vladimir Tod and your reward will be immeasurable."†   (source)
  • He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.†   (source)
  • But with the power came immeasurable responsibility, and it was this that caused him to wonder what he had done.†   (source)
  • "And it's true the lowest Radchaai thinks herself immeasurably superior to any noncitizen.†   (source)
  • I became energetic and wrote him a letter, expressing my belief that my future would be immeasurably different if only I could work for him; that he would be benefited as well as I. I was especially careful to allow some indication of my ability to come through the appeal.†   (source)
  • The consequence of this is that business is drawn and spun out to immeasurable length.†   (source)
  • But if her father's death, as Annie actually believed, had no connection with her inability to sleep, its effect on almost everything else in her life was immeasurable.†   (source)
  • Astronomical, immeasurable.†   (source)
  • An immeasurable debt.†   (source)
  • Veronica herself will be a travel agent and murder mystery writer and the proud mother of seven bright-eyed, immeasurably happy girls.†   (source)
  • And yet, she was a good soul, tormented immeasurably and destined to suffer forever in a body that was a fortress against love, an impregnable glacis.†   (source)
  • A Louisiana cavalryman believed that a Yankee triumph would be "more galling in its tyranny than the darkest horror under which Ireland or Poland has ever groaned," and a Mississippi officer feared it would mean descent "to a depth of degredation immeasurably below that of the Helots of Greece."†   (source)
  • He saw himself seated on a throne in Bryn Shander, immeasurably wealthy and respected by all in his court.†   (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)
  • Alvin told them how he had spent the evening and the night before, restoring Measure from the edge of death; and how he spent the morning, taking away the immeasurable agony as nine thousand innocent deaths shouted in the Prophet's mind--nine thousand times that one black shout that years before had maddened him.†   (source)
  • It was the immeasurable sound of a singing chorus of Canada geese, flying fast to warmer places to escape the frozen blasts of winter.†   (source)
  • Now while despair over her loss encircled my throat like hands, I understood for the first time how hopeless was my love for her, and also how immeasurably huge was my lust.†   (source)
  • Where the hill rimmed, ahead of him, it looked like the edge of the flat earth; beyond it stretched immeasurable sky, in the center of it, poised like a dancer on one foot, towering Orion.†   (source)
  • And you and I are the last remembrance of all that immeasurable greatness which has been created in the world in all the thousands of years between them and us, and it is in memory of all those vanished marvels that we live and love and weep and cling to one another.†   (source)
  • The memories of the gas chambers at Buchenwald and other Nazi concentration camps, the stories of hideous atrocities which had been refreshed with new illustrations at Nuremberg, and the anguish and suffering which each new military casualty list had brought to thousands of American homes—these were among the immeasurable influences which caused many to react with pain and indignation when a United States Senator deplored the trials and sentences of these merely "despicable" men.†   (source)
  • The river went by immeasurable under the sky, moving and dimly catching and snagging itself, freeing itself without effort, heavy with its great waves of drift, deep with stirring fish.†   (source)
  • The possessor would be immeasurably rich, would he not?†   (source)
  • His eyes held mine for an immeasurable moment.†   (source)
  • But it will be immeasurably helpful if you can tell me anything you may know about it.†   (source)
  • He stared into my eyes for an immeasurable period of time.†   (source)
  • This would batter his corpse, and it seemed somehow to be immeasurably cruel.†   (source)
  • She clung to me and, for an instant, I to her with a feeling immeasurably sad.†   (source)
  • I would recommend it to both of you as a way to improve your daily life in immeasurable ways.†   (source)
  • So her bargaining position was immeasurably strengthened.†   (source)
  • Some immeasurable time after Cecilia had gone to her room, Briony went with her mother to the library to have the first of her formal interviews with the police.†   (source)
  • Or it could have been that all that he had worked for mattered less now The automobile, which had given him great wealth, had stolen something immeasurably more important.†   (source)
  • They are but hovels compared with the caverns I have seen here: immeasurable halls, filled with an everlasting music of water that tinkles into pools, as fair as Kheled-zaram in the starlight.†   (source)
  • She couldn't help noticing how shriveled he looked, immeasurably smaller than the man she'd known as a girl.†   (source)
  • "While I'm sure we're all immeasurably relieved that you'll be looking after the Blackthorn children," said Luke, "Helen is one of them.†   (source)
  • 'That's right,' said Colonel Korn, nodding, gratified immeasurably by Yossarian's guileless surprise and bewilderment.†   (source)
  • The boy possesses only the power of destruction, but 21-21 possesses the power of enlightenment, which is immeasurably the more dangerous of the two.†   (source)
  • But so firmly fixed had the notion of the immeasurable wealth of the Bagginses of Bag End become that most found this hard to believe, harder than any other reason or unreason that their fancy could suggest: to most it suggested a dark and yet unrevealed plot by Gandalf.†   (source)
  • …made it better. as he thought, being deceived-for all those arts and subtle devices, for which he forsook his former wisdom, and which fondly he imagined were his own. came but from Mordor; so that what he made was naught, only a little copy, a child's model or a slave's flattery, of that vast fortress. armoury, prison, furnace of great power, Barad-dur, the Dark Tower, which suffered no rival, and laughed at flattery, biding its time, secure in its pride and its immeasurable strength.†   (source)
  • In much the way he had rushed out in the night to help fight fires in Philadelphia and Washington, he had done his all to put out the fire of war—to the immeasurable benefit of the American people, and with no loss of honor or prestige to the nation.†   (source)
  • McCown was still recovering from knee surgery, and after weeks walking on the glacier and wondering if his knee would carry him back to civilization, the sight of Mortenson cheered him immeasurably.†   (source)
  • Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dur, Fortress of Sauron.†   (source)
  • In his seven years away from home and from conventional schooling, he had benefited immeasurably from his father's interest and encouragement.†   (source)
  • Alessandro felt as if time had stopped, and his distress was immeasurable as the woman was quickly knocked over with two shots.†   (source)
  • The tide was beginning to roll in again, and those great black slabs of granite had the formidable task of inhibiting the erosion along the beach, of impeding the flow and will of the Atlantic Ocean with its immeasurable tonnage and its mindless habit, centuries old, of taking or giving or regaining whatever it damn well pleased.†   (source)
  • Swaying slightly to and fro, immeasurably fatigued, the "Yodel-ing Song" echoing through his soul, he communed with his father.†   (source)
  • The light grew no stronger, for Orodruin was still belching forth a great fume that, beaten upwards by the opposing airs, mounted higher and higher, until it reached a region above the wind and spread in an immeasurable roof, whose central pillar rose out of the shadows beyond their view.†   (source)
  • Then, far in the back, a boy rose, a tall, dark boy, his white shirt open at the neck and torn, his trousers dusty and shabby and held up with an old necktie, and he looked across the immeasurable, dreadful, breathing distance up to Gabriel, and began to walk down the long, bright aisle.†   (source)
  • A brief vision he had of swirling cloud, and in the midst of it towers and battlements, tall as hills, founded upon a mighty mountain-throne above immeasurable pits; great courts and dungeons, eyeless prisons sheer as cliffs, and gaping gates of steel and adamant: and then all passed.†   (source)
  • She had not meant to, it was simple reflex; the reason she had shut music out during these days of malignant depression was that she had found she could not bear the contrast between the abstract yet immeasurable beauty of music and the almost touchable dimensions of her own aching despair.†   (source)
  • One moment only it stared out, but as from some great window immeasurably high there stabbed northward a flame of red, the flicker of a piercing Eye; and then the shadows were furled again and the terrible vision was removed.†   (source)
  • Her ability at reading English, while still far from perfect, had improved immeasurably in the year since she had met Nathan; in general she no longer resorted to Polish translations and was now deeply engrossed in Malcolm Cowley's Portable Faulkner, which I knew both captured and perplexed her.†   (source)
  • Her face looked immeasurably distant, hollow and stern.†   (source)
  • For a fleeting immeasurable instant, he pressed her body close to his.†   (source)
  • I am very vain, very confident; I have an immeasurable desire that women should sigh in sympathy.†   (source)
  • The single shafts stood immeasurably tall, out of scale to the rest of the earth.†   (source)
  • I looked over the edge of the box into immeasurable depths of space.†   (source)
  • But think of the enormous, immeasurable durations it can give you out of time.†   (source)
  • But to myself I am immeasurable; a net whose fibres pass imperceptibly beneath the world.†   (source)
  • That Sunday we did not even kiss, but we were immeasurably happy.†   (source)
  • No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea.†   (source)
  • I stop a few hours in a village, I administer the sacraments and hear confessions, I leave in every house some little token, a rosary or a religious picture, and I go away feeling that I have conferred immeasurable happiness, and have released faithful souls that were shut away from God by neglect.†   (source)
  • Smaug lay, with wings folded like an immeasurable bat, turned partly on one side, so that the hobbit could see his underparts and his long pale belly crusted with gems and fragments of gold from his long lying on his costly bed.†   (source)
  • Something ate with us; we talked to it and it answered questions; it sat with us before the fire at night and, rousing without any warning from some profound and bemused complete inertia, talked, not to us, the six ears, the three minds capable of listening, but to the air, the waiting grim decaying presence, spirit, of the house itself; talking that which sounded like the bombast of a madman who creates within his very coffin walls his fabulous immeasurable Camelot: and Carcassonne.†   (source)
  • Blanche: A cultivated woman, a woman of intelligence and breeding, can enrich a man's life — immeasurably !†   (source)
  • The dark ages may return, the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even bring about its total destruction.†   (source)
  • Twenty-eight years - that immeasurable period between his birth and his first parish: all childhood and youth and the seminary lay there.†   (source)
  • The Dark Ages may return, the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even bring about its total destruction.†   (source)
  • They flattened noses against the dirty windows, and watched the vast structure of the earth sweep past—clumped woodlands, the bending sweep of the fields, the huge flowing lift of the earth-waves, cyclic intersections bewildering— the American earth—rude, immeasurable, formless, mighty.†   (source)
  • One can no longer distinguish whence in this now quiet silvery landscape it comes; ghostly, invisible, it is everywhere, between heaven and earth it rolls on immeasurably.†   (source)
  • A flurry of wind and sleet drove up, drenching the party and adding immeasurably to their discomfort; even Conway felt at one moment that it would be impossible to go much further.†   (source)
  • He could not see her face at all now; he seemed to swing faintly, as though in a drifting boat, upon the sound of her voice as upon some immeasurable and drowsing peace evocative of nothing of any moment, scarce listening.†   (source)
  • …when the brief all is done you must retreat from both love and pleasure, gather up your own rubbish and refuse—the hats and pants and shoes which you drag through the world—and retreat since the gods condone and practise these and the dreamy immeasurable coupling which floats oblivious above the trammelling and harried instant, the: was-not is: war is a perquisite only of balloony and weightless elephants and whales: but maybe if there were sin too maybe you would not be permitted to…†   (source)
  • He thought of the immeasurable distance a man travels - from the first whipping-top to this bed, on which he lay clasping the brandy.†   (source)
  • Scarlett had found that a drink of neat brandy before supper helped immeasurably and she would always chew coffee or gargle cologne to disguise the smell.†   (source)
  • He felt immeasurably tired.†   (source)
  • Its effect was immeasurably enlivening and delightful—as though one were filled with gas and had no longer any gravity.†   (source)
  • Immeasurably receptive, holding everything, trembling with fullness, yet clear, contained—so my being seems, now that desire urges it no more out and away; now that curiosity no longer dyes it a thousand colours.†   (source)
  • Hare could find no speech, and he felt immeasurably small.†   (source)
  • Some of the scenes thus revealed were of immeasurable grandeur and of absorbing interest.†   (source)
  • Yet he should have been counted immeasurably, Milly concluded.†   (source)
  • This narrows the field immeasurably we meet again in it.†   (source)
  • And he answered: You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.†   (source)
  • Things immeasurably greater than man in every respect but brain have existed and perished.†   (source)
  • This was immeasurably better than nothing.†   (source)
  • When David saw that he lay still and that he was apparently dead, his fright increased immeasurably.†   (source)
  • He wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by— it seemed both.†   (source)
  • She passionately wanted to know more, but was immeasurably grateful for so much!†   (source)
  • His first sensation was one of immeasurable relief.†   (source)
  • He fascinated me immeasurably, and I feared him immeasurably.†   (source)
  • And upon the face of Cleve shone an immeasurable scorn.†   (source)
  • The quality of hardness she had seen in Stewart was immeasurably intensified in this old man's face.†   (source)
  • Manifestly her capacity for liking any one had immeasurably enlarged.†   (source)
  • 'Got over!' repeated Fanny, with immeasurable scorn.†   (source)
  • Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us.†   (source)
  • Could its transmission have been immeasurably increased by some unknown system of levers?†   (source)
  • [472] The day, immeasurably long, sleeps over the broad hills and warm wide fields.†   (source)
  • We were in reality shut up inside an immeasurable excavation.†   (source)
  • He thought with a feeling very like pain how immeasurably she was his superior.†   (source)
  • He appeared to address condescending words to him from an immeasurable height.†   (source)
  • His lordship's admiration for Becky rose immeasurably at this proof of her cleverness.†   (source)
  • But they had changed immeasurably.†   (source)
  • There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.†   (source)
  • For an immeasurable period, lapped in the rippling of placid centuries, I enjoyed and pondered my tremendous flight.†   (source)
  • And Joachim, his eyes shining about and his mouth opening as if to utter a hopeless "oh," let his hand trail off in a gesture of immeasurability.†   (source)
  • It was then that he reached forth to feel Ring or Whitie, immeasurably grateful for the love and companionship of two dogs.†   (source)
  • The gates of memory would roll open—old joys would stretch out their arms to them, old hopes and dreams would call to them, and they would stir beneath the burden that lay upon them, and feel its forever immeasurable weight.†   (source)
  • Just this slight thing, this frail link that joined Kells to his past and better life, immeasurably inspirited Joan and outlined the difficult game she had to play.†   (source)
  • The wall, inside which he had thought himself, as suddenly leaped back before him to an immeasurable distance.†   (source)
  • To his impatience it seemed immeasurably long to wait, and half-ashamed of the impulse, he leaned to Mrs. Fisher to ask, as the music ceased, if Miss Bart had not dined with her.†   (source)
  • When she could see distinctly through the smoke she experienced a sensation of immeasurable relief that the cowboy had not shot the padre.†   (source)
  • But this great experience, when all its significance had clarified in his mind, immeasurably broadened his understanding of the principles of nature applied to life.†   (source)
  • And so the two young men said nothing, and busied themselves in trying to hide their feelings, only succeeding in looking immeasurably sheepish.†   (source)
  • I believe that to execute a man for murder is to punish him immeasurably more dreadfully than is equivalent to his crime.†   (source)
  • An immeasurable social chasm was to divide our heroine's personality thereafter from that previous self of hers who stepped from her mother's door to try her fortune at Trantridge poultry-farm.†   (source)
  • I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects.†   (source)
  • But, temporal or spatial, the esthetic image is first luminously apprehended as selfbounded and selfcontained upon the immeasurable background of space or time which is not it.†   (source)
  • Even now, quite often if Richard had not been there reading the Times, so that she could crouch like a bird and gradually revive, send roaring up that immeasurable delight, rubbing stick to stick, one thing with another, she must have perished.†   (source)
  • As they took wing for this it seemed to him that they were flying indeed, flying far up into the cloudy night, with Starkfield immeasurably below them, falling away like a speck in space….†   (source)
  • He knew that his memory of the piano falsified still further the perspective in which he saw the music, that the field open to the musician is not a miserable stave of seven notes, but an immeasurable keyboard (still, almost all of it, unknown), on which, here and there only, separated by the gross darkness of its unexplored tracts, some few among the millions of keys, keys of tenderness, of passion, of courage, of serenity, which compose it, each one differing from all the rest as one…†   (source)
  • Yet, as he listened to this silence, he heard an intermittent and immeasurably low moan, a fitful, mournful murmur.†   (source)
  • He felt something strike his chest, and that his body was being thrown swiftly through the air, on and on, immeasurably far and fast, while his limbs were gently relaxed.†   (source)
  • In the immeasurable expanses of time, you see how life moves onward and upward from infusoria to man, and you cannot deny that infinite possibilities for further perfection still await humankind.†   (source)
  • For an immeasurable second the two spectators of the incident were silent; then the house-door closed, the hansom rolled off, and the whole scene slipped by as if with the turn of a stereopticon.†   (source)
  • East of Chicago Carley began to feel that the long days and nights of riding, the ceaseless turning of the wheels, the constant and wearing stress of emotion, had removed her an immeasurable distance of miles and time and feeling from the scene of her catastrophe.†   (source)
  • In those few moments of contending strife Dale was immeasurably removed from that dark gulf of self which had made his winter a nightmare.†   (source)
  • Then, from somewhere—from an immeasurable distance—came a slow, guarded, clinking, clanking step.†   (source)
  • She reminded him of a Leonardo more than ever; her sunburnt features were shadowed by fantastic rock; at his words she had turned and stood between him and the light with immeasurable plains behind her.†   (source)
  • In conversation with Rogojin he had attributed this sensation to pity—immeasurable pity, and this was the truth.†   (source)
  • Brief, broken, often painful as their actual meetings had been what with his absences and interruptions (this morning, for instance, in came Elizabeth, like a long-legged colt, handsome, dumb, just as he was beginning to talk to Clarissa) the effect of them on his life was immeasurable.†   (source)
  • And if it be pain for a mother to be parted from her child, for a man to be exiled from hearth and home, for friend to be sundered from friend, O think what pain, what anguish it must be for the poor soul to be spurned from the presence of the supremely good and loving Creator Who has called that soul into existence from nothingness and sustained it in life and loved it with an immeasurable love.†   (source)
  • He accounted them immeasurably his inferiors, and it was this feeling which caused his special amiability and delightful ease and grace towards them.†   (source)
  • Afterward, in the silence and darkness of night, Joan Randle lay upon her bed sleepless, haunted by Jim's white face, amazed at the magnificent madness of him, thrilled to her soul by the meaning of his attack on Gulden, and tortured by a love that had grown immeasurably full of the strength of these hours of suspense and the passion of this wild border.†   (source)
  • For a circle consists of nothing but elastic turning points, and so its curvature is immeasurable, with no steady, definite direction, and so eternity is not 'straight ahead, straight ahead,' but rather 'merry-go-round.'†   (source)
  • …and sank as many times as there are stars in the sky, atoms in the air, drops of water in the sea, leaves on the trees, feathers upon birds, scales upon fish, hairs upon animals, at the end of all those innumerable risings and sinkings of that immeasurably vast mountain not one single instant of eternity could be said to have ended; even then, at the end of such a period, after that eon of time the mere thought of which makes our very brain reel dizzily, eternity would scarcely have…†   (source)
  • But in the case of an execution, that last hope—having which it is so immeasurably less dreadful to die,—is taken away from the wretch and certainty substituted in its place!†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it is possible for a narrative's content-time to exceed its own duration immeasurably.†   (source)
  • Bold and rugged indeed were these mountain features, yet they were companionably close, not immeasurably distant and unattainable like the desert.†   (source)
  • But first of all, that was a point in time so indefinite that you could only describe it, as Joachim had done on some occasion or other, with a trailing gesture of immeasurability, and second, did that make the impossible any more possible?†   (source)
  • Above him there was now nothing but the sky—the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it.†   (source)
  • That unblinkingly vivid Japanese sun seems the blazing focus of the glassy ocean's immeasurable burning-glass.†   (source)
  • And now, because my mind was not confused enough before, I complicated its confusion fifty thousand-fold, by having states and seasons when I was clear that Biddy was immeasurably better than Estella, and that the plain honest working life to which I was born had nothing in it to be ashamed of, but offered me sufficient means of self-respect and happiness.†   (source)
  • By the bye, did you ever hear the story of Maule, the wizard, and what happened between him and your immeasurably great-grandfather?†   (source)
  • Between the immeasurable track of space beyond the little wound that has thrown the one into the fixed sleep which jolts so heavily over the stones of the streets, and the narrow track of blood which keeps the other in the watchful state expressed in every hair of his head!†   (source)
  • Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew.†   (source)
  • A white flag from within the fortress, and a parley—this dimly perceptible through the raging storm, nothing audible in it—suddenly the sea rose immeasurably wider and higher, and swept Defarge of the wine-shop over the lowered drawbridge, past the massive stone outer walls, in among the eight great towers surrendered!†   (source)
  • The two things clearest in my mind were, that a remoteness had come upon the old Blunderstone life — which seemed to lie in the haze of an immeasurable distance; and that a curtain had for ever fallen on my life at Murdstone and Grinby's.†   (source)
  • One or two stars were shining through the openings of the clouds, and the lights were seen in the village, glimmering faintly, as if at an immeasurable distance.†   (source)
  • A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred.†   (source)
  • The terrific character of their merciless enemies increased immeasurably the natural horrors of warfare.†   (source)
  • The senator despairingly steps out, picking gingerly for some firm foothold; down goes one foot an immeasurable depth,—he tries to pull it up, loses his balance, and tumbles over into the mud, and is fished out, in a very despairing condition, by Cudjoe.†   (source)
  • I know that to anyone but myself—to you, who consider the immeasurable distance between me and this young lady, who is now your ward, and the object of your peculiar care—my loving her, even in thought, must appear the height of rashness and presumption.†   (source)
  • For everybody's family doctor was remarkably clever, and was understood to have immeasurable skill in the management and training of the most skittish or vicious diseases.†   (source)
  • There he was, with the pen still between his fingers, and a vast, immeasurable tract of written space behind him!†   (source)
  • An old document, enclosed an immemorial time within the folds of this old book, had for him an immeasurable value.†   (source)
  • The Americans, who were perhaps their inferiors, in a moral point of view, were immeasurably superior to them in intelligence: they were industrious, well informed, rich, and accustomed to govern their own community.†   (source)
  • With this he was a mere lattice of bones; when he opened his eyes to greet her it was as if she were looking into immeasurable space.†   (source)
  • The cell was clean, though empty, and dry, though situated at an immeasurable distance under the earth.†   (source)
  • This impression had even one stronger and more profound point about it, that it was indeed the tower of Strasbourg, but the tower of Strasbourg two leagues in height; something unheard of, gigantic, immeasurable; an edifice such as no human eye has ever seen; a tower of Babel.†   (source)
  • A ray of light, beginning at a height immeasurably beyond the nearest stars, and dropping obliquely to the earth; at its top, a diminishing point; at its base, many furlongs in width; its sides blending softly with the darkness of the night, its core a roseate electrical splendor.†   (source)
  • Let her forgive him for herself, if she will, let her forgive the torturer for the immeasurable suffering of her mother's heart.†   (source)
  • Bright, admiring glances from a handsome young gentleman with white hands, a gold chain, occasional regimentals, and wealth and grandeur immeasurable—those were the warm rays that set poor Hetty's heart vibrating and playing its little foolish tunes over and over again.†   (source)
  • Having uttered those words in a most lamentable and heart-broken tone: to the immeasurable delight of her hearers: Miss Nancy paused, winked to the company, nodded smilingly round, and disappeared.†   (source)
  • When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop.†   (source)
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