Myriad

Examples

• The myriad noises of the jungle seemed far distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Entangled with the love of gaiety, organized as commerce, it is literally impossible to follow the myriad expressions it assumes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• We ascended the myriad steps together, when on the summit I achieved my design, and in rough figures noted the date of the last year. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Then shall the huge bell tremble--then the mass With myriad waves concurrent shall respond In low soft unison. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Throw a stone into the water, and the myriad of tiny bubbles that are created flash out a brilliant glare like blue theatrical fires. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• To Tarzan they stand out boldly against all the myriad other scars and bruises and signs upon the leafy way. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• 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.

Typist: Portia