Around the dwelling of Artaban spread a fair garden, a tangle of flowers and fruit-trees, watered by a score of streams descending from the slopes of Mount Orontes, and made musical by innumerable birds.
The doorway between the pillars, which opened upon the terrace of the roof, was covered with a heavy curtain of the colour of a ripe pomegranate, embroidered with innumerable golden rays shooting upward from the floor.
Fleeming was precocious, and at thirteen had finished a romance of three hundred lines in heroic measure, a Scotch novel, and innumerable poetical fragments, none of which are now extant.
The Atlantic cable was a theme of inspiration for innumerable sermons and a prodigious quantity of doggerel.
While sea and shore and sky and earth were giving him of their best, his father came back with innumerable stories of adventure that would of themselves have set up a young romancer in business.
He asked Dumont innumerable questions, and the valet told him all that he knew.
Frederic did not reply at once; he looked closely at Constance, and his heart was oppressed by innumerable conflicting feelings.
All this is written in innumerable books; and he who will toil through them will discover that the stone is just where it was when the work began.
The whole hair consists of a very delicate outer case of wood, closely applied to the inner surface of which is a layer of semi-fluid matter, full of innumerable granules of extreme minuteness.
You are doubtless aware that the common nettle owes its stinging property to the innumerable stiff and needle-like, though exquisitely delicate, hairs which cover its surface.
However this may be, the heaven and the air, the earth and the abyss, are peopled by innumerable beings analogous in nature to the spiritual element in man, and these spirits are of two kinds, good and bad.
Her gratification was unconcealed; naively she displayed the innumerable whirls and arabesques of her adornment for my compliments, and thereafter she wore only a pareu when at home, entirely dropping alien standards of modesty and her gown.
Grelet had innumerable books in French and German, all the great authors old and modern; he took the important reviews of Germany and France, and several newspapers.
I paused in the reek of those innumerable matches, which tainted the air a hundred feet away, and exchanged morning greetings with their owner, inquiring about his plans.
Gasping and choking, the ghastly creature paused for breath, and in the shuddering silence the banana-leaves ceaselessly dripped, and the hum of innumerable mosquito-wings was sharp and thin.
The roads are wretched, the heat of the sun burning, and the rainstorms very heavy, with innumerable other inclemencies and annoyances, which have disabled many, and killed others.
Not content with being stained by innumerable crimes, he had added to the list of his atrocities--he had insulted my nation!
The Red Cross appeal raised countless millions of dollars and brought rescue to innumerable human warriors.
And everywhere was heard the shuffle and stumbling of innumerable boots.
And now, despite the adverse wind, the odor of innumerable soldiers came to his fiercely sniffing nostrils.
Certainly they have no good excuse for their lack of information, for the physiologists and biochemists have informed them of modern advances in innumerable ways.
I remember once writing about one of Monet's innumerable snow effects: "This picture is in his most radiant manner.
At this moment, over all the length and breadth of England, innumerable belfries had suddenly awakened from their sleep, and ten thousand bells were clanging their iron tongues, welcoming in the new-found year.
Greatest modern American teacher, Art Students League, offers innumerable hints, instructions, guided comments to help you in painting.
I might select my birds, but so closely were they packed together that the shots went practically "into the brown," and caused innumerable cripples.
To this record must be added over 2000 camp workers, only a very small proportion of whom are paid, and the innumerable ladies who either serve at the counters or are quartered with local committees of management.
The demand was again rejected, or eluded; and the indignant lover immediately took the field, passed the Alps, invaded Italy, and besieged Aquileia with an innumerable host of Barbarians.
By the specious professions of gratitude and voluntary attachment, the patrician might disguise his apprehensions of the Scythian conqueror, who pressed the two empires with his innumerable armies.
The doubts and difficulties which still retarded this important discovery were successively removed by new visions; and the ground was opened by the bishop, in the presence of an innumerable multitude.
Yet, in the mean while, Attila relieved his tender anxiety, by adding a beautiful maid, whose name was Ildico, to the list of his innumerable wives.
In the reign of his father Arcadius, a band of adventurous Huns had ravaged the provinces of the East; from whence they brought away rich spoils and innumerable captives.
The austere penance, in which he persisted forty-eight years, diffused a similar enthusiasm; and the holy man was followed by a train of two or three thousand anachorets, whenever he visited the innumerable monasteries of Palestine.
The vast area thus brilliantly illumined ever seemed peopled with a countless multitude of kneeling beings; reminding him of the glimmering sun of evening lying softly upon the woolly backs of innumerable sheep.
That which appears only like a thin and silvery cloud streaking the heaven is in effect composed of innumerable clusters of suns, each shining with its own light, and illuminating numbers of planets that revolve around them.
For seest thou not beneath this crystal floor 125 The innumerable worlds of golden light Which are my empire, and the least of them which thou wouldst redeem from me?
Millions and millions of suns are ranged around us, all attended byinnumerable worlds, yet calm, regular, and harmonious, all keeping the paths of immutable necessity.
Earth's distant orb appeared 250 The smallest light that twinkles in the heaven; Whilst round the chariot's way Innumerablesystems rolled, And countless spheres diffused An ever-varying glory.
Can a return to nature, then, instantaneously eradicate predispositions that have been slowly taking root in the silence of innumerable ages?
I have considered the merits of innumerable subjects, from the exploits of the old Greek heroes to green Carnations, but each appears to have been appropriated by some earlier author.
They have innumerable horse races, eat prawn curry, are prodigiously hospitable, and in odd hours grow tea.
I never learned to distinguish the names of the innumerable crawling creatures whom we met at table at meal times.
We neither of us knew very much about cooking, but we had cookery books, and did what we could, supplying the place of the innumerable ingredients we did not possess, with any we happened to have on hand.
Even at this point the innumerable fortifications of the Austrians began, and they multiplied as we drew near Venice, till we entered the lagoon, and found it a nest of fortresses one with another.
He survived and suppressed innumerable conspiracies, escaping even the thrust of the assassin whom the fame of his enormous wickedness had caused the Old Man of the Mountain to send against him.
Immediately on its exhumation the Blood wrought innumerable miracles; and the fame of it grew so great, that the Pope came to see it, attended by such concourse of the people that they were obliged to sleep in the streets.
On every side wild birds fluttered through these absurd trees, and in the thickets lurked innumerable pheasants, which occasionally issued forth and stalked in stately, fearless groups over the sunset-crimsoned lawns.
It is wild and weird in its character, for much of it, with the innumerable ballads of those days, have reached us from father to son, and vividly recall the times whence they date, and the men whose characters they mirror.
Like Ulysses, Duke Magnus andinnumerable others escape with difficulty from the charms and enticements of sea-nymphs.
The remains of many Huguenots repose among theinnumerable dead of old Trinity church-yard, that vast home of the departed; and where can be found their memorials of honor, patriotism, and exalted piety.
From this north shore chain, innumerable spurs are thrown off to the southward between Manati and Nipe Bay, reaching sometimes twenty-five or thirty miles back into the interior.
Dodge, drove me up from his summer house at Tarrytown to see the simple tomb of the good old Geoffrey Crayon, whose genius has gladdened innumerable admirers, and whose writings are as pure as the rivulet which now flows by his resting place.
