He was not master of fertile Aegypt alone, where the Nile breaks the rich dank soil, and where myriad cities pour their taxes into his treasuries.
When he returned he found her before a window, staring at themyriad lights.
He came to a stand before one of the windows and saw the glory of the morning flashing from the myriad spires and towers and roofs, and wondered why artists bothered about cows in pastures.
When the wind blew from the southwest the whole house seemed to shake and glimmer with the movements of those myriad leaves.
That single demonstration on that hot morning in Williams's shop proved myriad facts to the inventor.
But with the mention of Mr. Laurie myriad dreams had flashed into his mind.
She had made love the strongest thing in him, increased its power a myriad per cent with her gift of imagination, and sent him forth into the ephemera to thrill and melt and mate.
I walked among these myriad graves, all very recent in date, and was not a little touched by the affection that had gone to their making.
When man sinks awed, watching a myriad globes, How shrunk his purpose and his works appear!
We are the descendants and inheritors of all the defects of our primitive ancestry--the evolution of the myriad forms of life from the infinitesimal to the mammoth--from the worm to the dinosaur.
Against a background of lesser lights myriad points of electric signs flashed into everchanging shapes, winking like huge, distorted eyes; fanciful designs of liquid fire ran up and down the walls or blazed forth in lurid colors.
In front of them the placid waters of the bay were shimmering, a myriad of small boats thronged the harbor.
The indescribable confusion of races reminded the young American of a Red Sea port where the myriad peoples of the far East intermingle.
The velvety blackness of the heavens; the myriad diamond points of clear brilliance.
He was suddenly unthrilled by this man-made illumination, and he got out of his car to stare again at the blackness above and its myriad of stars that gathered and multiplied as he watched.
The fire displayed a myriad inequalities in the landscape which were unseen in open day.
All the eager activity of others in his behalf recurred--the gracious image of that Mother of myriad services, before all--and the fragrant essence of a hundred deeds of love for him.
Bedient stayed, until the tardy May dusk effaced the city, all but the myriad points of light.
Our little entomologist chased scarlet-winged dragon-flies and descanted on themyriad forms of insect-life with premature accomplishment.
Only think of that picture, shining through the mellow haze of Indian Summer, and flashing with the lambent glimmer of a myriad glassy leaves.
From the city rose a roar--the myriad sounds of industry mingled by the magic of distance.
A great, glowing arc--the reflected glow from a myriad cluster of tiny moons and moon-dust, encircling Venus.
The jungle was silent; yet, as Elza listened, beneath the crackle of the burning twigs she could hear the tiny myriad voices of insect life.
Above Elza and me was a maze of flashing beams; futile bolts; the puffs of myriad sparks.
Overhead, the sky gleamed with a myriad stars--reddish stars, all of them like Red Mars himself as seen through the heavy Venus atmosphere.
O fortunate, O happy day, When a new household finds its place Among the myriad homes of earth, Like a new star just sprung to birth, And rolled on its harmonious way Into the boundless realms of space!
Salute the passing hour, and in the dark And silent chambers of the household mark The movements of the myriad orbs of light!
The forests, with their myriad tongues, Shouted of liberty; And the Blast of the Desert cried aloud, With a voice so wild and free, That he started in his sleep and smiled At their tempestuous glee.
Myriad are the huge-bellied carnivora of this primitive world.
What had been the effect upon her of the moon and myriad stars of the clear African nights?
The tips of the cottonwoods and the oaks waved to the east, and the rings of aspens along the terraces twinkled theirmyriad of bright faces in fleet and glancing gleam.
He occupied the upper end of the sofa, and was almost buried amid piles of cushions, near an open window looking upon the garden of the harem, whose myriad blossoms filled the apartment with perfume.
But a myriad times alas for the wayward who are like unto dried-up leaves fallen upon the dust.
Hark, where the deep feels round its thousand shores To find remembered respite, and far drawn Through weed-strewn shelves and crannies of the coast The myriad silence yearns to myriad speech.
Oscard was sitting in the windowless room without a light, for a light only attracted a myriad of heavy-winged moths.
The little earth, the myriad confused figures struggling together on its surface, he saw as "pitiful.
Half-memories of vast system of myriad workers, ruled by this ideal of harmonious service.
Fillery to himself, knowing that the other meant the millions of years Nature had used to evoke hermyriad forms.
This sea is nothing but a stagnant lake in the midst of the green earth, one of the myriad salt ponds studded all over it; and as for this leaky little ship, which we were induced to embark in only by fraud, it is not really sea-worthy.
The earth and its myriad organisms, all minerals, plants and animals are thralls of its dominion.
These myriad suns, satellites and heavenly bodies throughout endless space are all captives of nature.
On this account the materialists are of the opinion that life is the mere conjoining of elemental substances intomyriad forms and shapes.
Furthermore, the forms and organisms of phenomenal being and existence in each of the kingdoms of the universe are myriad and numberless.
It is evident that each material organism is an aggregate expression of single and simple elements, and a given cellular element or atom has its coursings or journeyings through various and myriad stages of life.
Among the myriad organisms of the vegetable and animal kingdoms sex exists, but there is no differentiation whatever as to relative importance and value in the equation of life.
His ears are not ringing with a myriad petty clamours, but he can hear, rising above the multitudinous hum, the voice of those who sing clearest.
A thousand enterprises are beginning, and amidst a myriadessays the headway of yesterday's novelty is lost in the struggle of today's agonists.
