Countless

Examples

• She has lived for countless ages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Even the log of wood which lies heavy and motionless on our woodpile is made up of countless billions of molecules each in rapid incessant motion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Thinkest thou to escape from whence in all the countless ages but a single soul has fled? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• This was the discovery that gave us practically the modern steam-engine, with its countless uses in unnumbered fields. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It built up countless acres of hitherto unprofitable land. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There may be, there probably are, thousands of deposits still untouched containing countless fragments and vestiges of man and his progenitors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is as knobby with countless little domes as a prison door is with bolt-heads. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Here let them land and teach the Holy Therns such a lesson in ferocious warfare as they will not forget for countless ages. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• She knew the strength of the opposing impulses-she could feel the countless hands of habit dragging her back into some fresh compromise with fate. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He was the owner of countless flocks. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Common men cannot shirk world politics and at the same time enjoy private freedom; but it has taken them countless generations to learn this. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then, by degrees, I won their confidence in much the same manner as I had adopted countless times with my many mundane mounts. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Rivers flowed back towards their sources; peaks and lofty mountains where countless trees had grown for ages rolled crumbling to the earth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Think of the countless thousands of hands that had pressed that spot in the ages that are gone, to so reduce a stone that is as hard as iron! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Without these there might never have been the romance of Coppers and the rise and fall of countless fortunes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Most of them were for bicycles which, as improved to-day, are not only as fleet as the birds, but almost as countless in numbers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It was difficult for the English to conceive what the life of these countless brown millions in the eastern sunshine could be. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Voices were there, it seemed to meunnumbered; instruments varied and countless--bugle, horn, and trumpet I knew. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• In countless ways, language condenses meanings that record social outcomes and presage social outlooks. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And so it is that for countless generations this Record of the Rocks lay unsuspected beneath the feet of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The choice, too, of the actors required knowledge and carethen came lessons in elocution, in attitude, and then the fatigue of countless rehearsals. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• From here on for four miles to the outer ramparts our way will be beset by countless dangers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Remembering what it was--what countless systems there swept space like a soft trace of light--I felt the might and strength of God. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I see you with your long, countless curls on your shoulders, and your streaming sash. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Countless converts missed the real thing in it altogether. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The memory of his almost countless services, and lofty and affectionate regard, now presented itself to her and rebuked her day and night. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But how among countless suggestions is a cause to know the difference between a true invention and a pipe-dream? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• There would be countless more aeroplanes, bigger and much nastier bombs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was Helium against the field now, and the fight had settled to countless individual duels. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Of women and children and civilians there was a countless swarm. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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