Multitude

Examples

• Love covers a multitude of sins, and of whom could you ask more freely than of him? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They looked not on the multitude. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• She thought he did well to assert his own will, but she wished that will to have been more intelligible to the multitude. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The mind is occupied by the multitude of the objects, and by the strong passions, that display themselves. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Even in Greece the tale of the sun of darkness encreased the fears and despair of the dying multitude. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We are all familiar with the less powerful ones which are universally used on automobiles for night driving and in a multitude of other every-day practices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The evidence is at least as good as that from which we believe in the sterility of a multitude of species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• All of these details received Mr. Edison's personal care and consideration on the spot, in addition to the multitude of other affairs demanding his thought. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea-shore for multitude, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• As we descended in great circles toward the navy docks a mighty multitude could be seen surging in the streets beneath. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Beneath their activities what was the life of the mute multitude? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I neither spoke or looked, but sat motionless, bewildered by the multitude of miseries that overcame me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But do you mean to say that this is not the opinion of the multitude? Plato. The Republic.
• Prince John resumed his retreat from the lists, and the dispersion of the multitude became general. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They dissolved into a vast multitude of fugitives streaming under great dust clouds and without a single rally across the hot plain towards Arbela. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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.

Edited by Juanita