Myriads
[mɪrɪədz]
Examples
- From every narrow lane opening out on Marlborough Street came up a low distant roar, as of myriads of fierce indignant voices. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It is simply that the reality of a revolution is not in a political decree or the scarehead of a newspaper, but in the experiences, feelings, habits of myriads of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Up flew the bright sparks in myriads as the logs were stirred. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In the valley they swarmed in myriads, but never came to the summit of the ridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- General Scott arrived upon the scene the latter part of the month, and nothing more was heard of Santa Anna and his myriads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Being practical people, we never allow anybody to scare the birds; and the birds, being practical people too, come about us in myriads. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- There are myriads of human beings hanging on the bush--and they look very nice and rosy, your healthy young men and women. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The great works of the ancients are in the main mere monuments of the patient manual labor of myriads of workers, and can only rank with the buildings of the diatom and coral insect. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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