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1. Did she think of Toby? Did she ever think of Toby with anything other than regret; or anger, or even sheer, unadulterated hatred? Toby had beaten himself up about it numberless times over the next fifteen years, and then one day he simply accepted it
2. Would he be able to stand firm beyond any understanding of why it might be required of him? Could he give up the son that he had thought impossible, and the promise of his seed turning into a nation, even into a vast numberless throng of people, in essence give up the “whole world” rather than God’s favor? Could he do this even beyond any attempt to understand why, as Job had finally had to admit was his problem? Only when Abraham seemed ready to irrevocably commit to this proposition, was he told that it would not be necessary, that it would not even be desirable
3. consciousness, the numberless waves of the phenomenal
4. ween the two, your forms and names are numberless
5. numberless forests, so does the Unknown contain all that was,
6. You have grown numberless branches and
7. are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion
8. 9 For what am I among men Or why am I reckoned among those who are more excellent than I That I have heard all these marvellous things from the Most High And numberless promises from Him who created me? 10 Blessed be my mother among those who bear And praised among women be she who bore me
9. in numberless cases of need
10. And then on almost numberless occasions did we witness the working of this combined personality of man and God as it was activated by the apparent perfect union of the human and the divine minds
11. numberless desires and passions
12. Thereby it has become a junction of numberless spirits that none can count save Al’lah
13. Dictionaries of the New Testament, and commentators on it, may, if they please, put upon the phrase the sense of 'happiness' in the numberless passage where it occurs, but we deny to them the right to alter the meaning of a well understood Grecian word for the sake of bolstering up their baseless and horrid creed" The Duration and Nature of Future Punishment" 1871
14. We learn to trace in the numberless effusions of blood, practiced under the two ancient dispensations, an easily understood testimony to the desert of sin The soul that sins it shall die
15. And this takes no account of that which ought not to be forgotten in describing the genesis of the opinion—the action of 'seducing spirits and the teaching of demons speaking lies in hypocrisy,’ which may nevertheless be believed to have been concerned in re-establishing that primeval philosophy whispered in the ear of Eve, 'You shall not surely die! ’ If a few energetic preachers, in our own generation, reckless in uncritical assertion, ruthless in their treatment of opponents, and moderately well convinced of the truth of the tremendous doctrine they have espoused, are able to persuade so many modern multitudes of its truth, with the printed Bible under their eyes, it is easy to understand that the few scattered protests of the Ante-Nicene ages were feebly matched against the influence of numberless Christian teachers, maddened by the cruelty of the Roman Emperors, and thirsting for some vengeful threatening of hell-torment which might perchance scare the heathen into silence or submission
16. Dictionaries of the New Testament, and commentators on it, may, if they please, put upon the phrase the sense of 'happiness' in the numberless passage where it occurs, but we deny to them the right to alter the meaning of a well understood Grecian word for the sake of bolstering up their baseless and horrid creed
17. And the numberless unknown heroes equal to the greatest heroes known!
18. All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!
19. Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the
20. always these, and more, branching forth into numberless branches,
21. To which Don Quixote replied, "What answer God will give to your complaints, housekeeper, I know not, nor what his Majesty will answer either; I only know that if I were king I should decline to answer the numberless silly petitions they present every day; for one of the greatest among the many troubles kings have is being obliged to listen to all and answer all, and therefore I should be sorry that any affairs of mine should worry him
22. Countless were the hares ready skinned and the plucked fowls that hung on the trees for burial in the pots, numberless the wildfowl and game of various sorts suspended from the branches that the air might keep them cool
23. This Gines, then, afraid of being caught by the officers of justice, who were looking for him to punish him for his numberless rascalities and offences (which were so many and so great that he himself wrote a big book giving an account of them), resolved to shift his quarters into the kingdom of Aragon, and cover up his left eye, and take up the trade of a
24. In addition to all this commotion, there came a further disturbance to increase the tumult, for now it seemed as if in truth, on all four sides of the wood, four encounters or battles were going on at the same time; in one quarter resounded the dull noise of a terrible cannonade, in another numberless muskets were being discharged, the shouts of the combatants sounded almost close at hand, and farther away the Moorish lelilies were raised again and again
25. and on the other numberless spits for roasting! Overcome with despair we sank
26. After numberless windings, Dantes saw a door with an iron wicket
27. To the north stretched the limpid, and, as it appeared from that dizzy height, the narrow sheet of the "holy lake," indented with numberless bays, embellished by fantastic headlands, and dotted with countless islands
28. Whenever this unknown individual encountered one of the numberless sentinels who crossed his path, his answer was prompt, and, as it appeared, satisfactory; for he was uniformly allowed to proceed without further interrogation
29. Just as the day dawned, they entered the narrows of the lake*, and stole swiftly and cautiously among their numberless little islands
30. He had kept sternly at bay those had not stealthily taken garden and pasture and cotton field and lawn and reared themselves insolently by the porches of Tara, as they were doing on numberless plantations throughout the state
31. By the time he reached the mainland, the sun would be slipping down the sky, beckoning him past four-in-hand interchanges and the numberless gas stations of Jersey to where the earth broadened and softened and it was okay to eat when you were hungry, fuck when you were horny, rest when your loafers started to pinch
32. Then he flatly told me to shut up, with my tricks of the mirrors, my springs, my revolving doors and my palaces of illusions! He angrily declared that I must be either blind or mad to imagine that all that waterflowing over there, among those splendid, numberless trees, was not real water!
33. Lydgate was astounded to find in numberless trifling matters, as well as in this last serious case of the riding, that affection did not make her compliant
34. Just as he, when a boy, had mailed off for chemicals, seeds, turtles, numberless salves and sickish ointments
35. With persistent experiments he burned his fingers, and tried to cross clover with barley, and pulled the legs from numberless insects, striving to discover something—almost anything; but he never did
36. The narrow ways of Port Royal were deep with muddy filth, ground to thick liquid by the carts and the numberless bare feet
37. The numberless vessels of the Spanish colonies were nearly all driven from the sea by the fierce buccaneers
38. Numberless men volunteered for every expedition
39. By the time that an animal had reached, after numberless generations, the deepest recesses, disuse will on this view have more or less perfectly obliterated its eyes, and natural selection will often have effected other changes, such as an increase in the length of the antennae or palpi, as a compensation for blindness
40. Lastly, looking not to any one time, but at all time, if my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking closely together all the species of the same group, must assuredly have existed; but the very process of natural selection constantly tends, as has been so often remarked, to exterminate the parent forms and the intermediate links
41. For he may ask in vain where are the numberless transitional links which must formerly have connected the closely allied or representative species, found in the successive stages of the same great formation? He may disbelieve in the immense intervals of time which must have elapsed between our consecutive formations; he may overlook how important a part migration has played, when the formations of any one great region, as those of Europe, are considered; he may urge the apparent, but often falsely apparent, sudden coming in of whole groups of species
42. It was found that she could be made use of in numberless directions
43. But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know the sea to be an everlasting terra incognita, so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover his one superficial western one; though, by vast odds, the most terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately befallen tens and hundreds of thousands of those who have gone upon the waters; though but a moment's consideration will teach, that however baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it
44. Almost invariably it is all over obliquely crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings
45. “Malthus was a friend of humanity, but, with ill-founded moral principles, the friend of humanity is the devourer of humanity, without mentioning his pride; for, touch the vanity of one of these numberless philanthropists, and to avenge his self-esteem, he will be ready at once to set fire to the whole globe; and to tell the truth, we are all more or less like that
46. Farewell to the old life! My mind is filled with numberless impressions, but I cannot yet reduce them to order
47. I thought for The Appeal when I looked at the numberless sons of N
48. The masses—that is to say, the majority of mankind, who suffer and toil, their lives dull and uninteresting, never enlivened by a ray of brightness, enduring numberless privations—are those who recognize most clearly the sharp contrasts between what is and what ought to be, between the professions of mankind and their actions
49. I also went to the Indian ruler and showed him how I could create numberless soldiers from straw
50. The same thing takes place at all the concerts, with pieces by Liszt, Wagner, Berlioz, Brahms, and (newest of all) Richard Strauss, and the numberless other composers of the new school, who unceasingly produce opera after opera, symphony after symphony, piece after piece