All 4 Uses of
innumerable
in
Heart of Darkness
- A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar.†
Chpt 1 *
- Five such installments came, with their absurd air of disorderly flight with the loot of innumerable outfit shops and provision stores, that, one would think, they were lugging, after a raid, into the wilderness for equitable division.†
Chpt 1
- She carried her head high; her hair was done in the shape of a helmet; she had brass leggings to the knee, brass wire gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable necklaces of glass beads on her neck; bizarre things, charms, gifts of witch-men, that hung about her, glittered and trembled at every step.†
Chpt 3
- It was an affirmation, a moral victory paid for by innumerable defeats, by abominable terrors, by abominable satisfactions.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(innumerable) too numerous to be counted