All 9 Uses of
innumerable
in
A Sketch of the Past
- 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.†
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- This shows that among the innumerable things left out in my sketch I have left out the most important—those instincts, affections,passions, attachments—there is no single word for them, for they changed month by month—which bound me, I suppose, from the first moment of consciousness to other people.†
- 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.†
- On it stood open my Greek lexicon; some Greek play or other; many little bottles of ink, pens innumerable; and probably hidden under blotting paper, sheets of foolscap covered with private writing in a hand so small and twisted as to be a family joke.†
- …or a pocket knife; to prowl about Lanhams—Mrs Lanham wore false curls shaking round her head; the servants said Mr Lanham had married her 'through an advertise-mene; to smell all the fishy smells in the steep little streets; and see the innumerable cats with their fishbones in their mouths; and the women on the raised steps outside their houses pouring pails of dirty water down the gutters; every day to have a great dish of Cornish cream skinned with a yellow skin; and plenty of…†
- 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.†
- Innumerable threads there were; still, if I stopped to disentangle, I could collect a number.†
- In that world of many men, coming and going, in that big house of innumerable rooms, we formed our private nucleus.†
- And so, while father preserved the framework of 1860, George filled in the framework with all kinds of minutely-teethed saws; and the machine into which our rebellious bodies were inserted in t goo not only held us tight in its framework, but bit into us with innumerable sharp teeth.†
Definition:
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(innumerable) too numerous to be counted