Multitudes

Examples

• A fine night, and a bright large moon, and multitudes of stars. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Many of these plants took the form of huge-stemmed trees, of which great multitudes of trunks survive fossilized to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He looks up casually, thinking what a fine night, what a bright large moon, what multitudes of stars! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• An impressive silence broods over the monstrous structure where such multitudes of men and women were wont to assemble in other days. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The good and ill of multitudes are connected with their actions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The Irish followed their track in disorganized multitudes; each day encreasing; each day becoming more lawless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Voting does not extract wisdom from multitudes: its real value is to furnish wisdom about multitudes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Such masses, such throngs, such multitudes of hurrying, bustling, struggling humanity! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• By the time they reached the churchyard the bells were hushed; the multitudes were gathered into the church. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was very strange to see thronging multitudes assembled in an artificial light again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Both relied successfully upon the power of the written word to link great multitudes of diverse men together in common enterprises. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It has engendered a fine concern about average people, about the voiceless multitudes who have been left to pass unnoticed. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• When it has ceased, the fine night, the bright large moon, and multitudes of stars, are left at peace again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He was joined by great multitudes of disciples, and so the first Friars of the Franciscan Order came into existence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Where late the busy multitudes assembled for pleasure or profit, now only the sound of wailing and misery is heard. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I shall whisper it here, but some day I shall stand upon the dome of the Temple of Reward and shout it to cheering multitudes below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

Typist: Wesley