All 25 Uses of
infinite
in
Of Human Bondage
- Philip felt infinitely unhappy.†
Chpt 7-8 *
- Winks, with his weary manner and his drooping eyelids, looked infinitely bored.†
Chpt 17-18
- His books now were insignificant; he could not bother about them when there was something infinitely more important to occupy him.†
Chpt 17-18
- With infinite skill he worked on his feelings, and this was easier since he was himself genuinely moved.†
Chpt 19-20
- He described one of the vivas with tolerant humour; some fellow in an outrageous collar was asking him questions in logic; it was infinitely tedious, and suddenly he noticed that he wore elastic-sided boots: it was grotesque and ridiculous; so he withdrew his mind and thought of the gothic beauty of the Chapel at King's.†
Chpt 25-26
- He could not understand what strange emotion distracted him; he seemed to feel something infinitely attractive, and yet he was repelled and horrified.†
Chpt 29-30
- He had bought a razor and now and then with infinite care shaved the down off his smooth chin.†
Chpt 31-32
- He began on the head, thinking that he would work slowly downwards, but, he could not understand why, he found it infinitely more difficult to draw a head from the model than to draw one from his imagination.†
Chpt 39-40
- Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.†
Chpt 41-42
- Lawson was painting with infinite labour, working till he could hardly stand for days and then scraping out all he had done.†
Chpt 47-48
- He felt remorseful because he had refused to see that she looked upon him with any particular feeling, and now these words in her letter were infinitely pathetic: I can't bear the thought that anyone else should touch me.†
Chpt 49-50
- The short ceremony was infinitely dreadful in the cold gray morning.†
Chpt 49-50
- Philip loathed them, and yet his heart ached with the infinite pity which filled him.†
Chpt 49-50
- When Philip ceased to believe in Christianity he felt that a great weight was taken from his shoulders; casting off the responsibility which weighed down every action, when every action was infinitely important for the welfare of his immortal soul, he experienced a vivid sense of liberty.†
Chpt 53-54
- He was infinitely grateful for one word of kindness.†
Chpt 57-58
- Charles Lamb, with his infinite tact, attempting to, might have drawn charming pictures of the life of his day; Lord Byron in a stanza of Don Juan, aiming at the impossible, might have achieved the sublime; Oscar Wilde, heaping jewels of Ispahan upon brocades of Byzantium, might have created a troubling beauty.†
Chpt 67-68
- There was a peculiar charm in his manner, a mingling of gravity and kindliness, which was infinitely attractive.†
Chpt 67-68
- She asked him to take her to the little restaurant in Soho to which they had so often been; he was infinitely grateful to her, because her suggestion showed that happy memories were attached to it.†
Chpt 69-70
- She had a wistful look which was infinitely pathetic.†
Chpt 71-72
- He had seemed before a little aloof; but there was a warm humanity about this article which was infinitely attractive.†
Chpt 85-86
- He appeared to have the same independence of thought, the same bohemianism, but he had an infinitely more vivacious temperament; his mind was coarser, and he had not that interest in the abstract which made Cronshaw's conversation so captivating.†
Chpt 87-88
- Now he felt nothing for Mildred but infinite pity.†
Chpt 91-92
- Their simplicity was infinitely touching.†
Chpt 105-106
- He was not happy but infinitely relieved.†
Chpt 111-112
- He was infinitely relieved, but it was not only relief that he felt; it was disappointment too; he was seized with horror of himself.†
Chpt 121-122
Definition:
unlimited; without boundaries; or too numerous to count