How To Use Multitude In A Sentence

  • That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
  • Carrying the burden of disease used to multiply with the multitude of small and large illegible chits and forms they had to carry with them every time they visited the hospital.
  • Luckily, there are a multitude of books on hand that can help. The Sun
  • Grape leaves are a narrative dish: each ingredient speaks as the package unfolds, containing multitudes, little edible matryoshka dolls. Day of Honey
  • Now the WWW has become the preferred environment for a multitude of e-services: e-commerce, e-banking, e-voting, e-government, etc.
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  • Not sure I can visualise the little carts – but the multitude of vibrant flowers described with intense joy opened a triumphal way to the vision of that extraordinary gypsy lady whose beauty and style impressed you so much. Gens du voyage - French Word-A-Day
  • Carefully trimming, shaving and shaping one's facial hair can achieve a never-ending multitude of looks, such as handlebar moustaches, goatees and designer sideburns.
  • Businesses locating here don't have to apply to a multitude of agencies for help, because we're the single agency.
  • In addition to expediting the compounding process and enhancing patient safety, RIVA has notably improved work and safety conditions for hospital staff, reducing their exposure to a multitude of drug compounds - namely cytotoxic drugs. THE MEDICAL NEWS
  • I am not of Paracelsus's mind, that boldly delivers a receipt to make a man without conjunction; yet cannot but wonder at the multitude of heads that do deny traduction, having no other arguments to confirm their belief than that rhetorical sentence and antimetathesis [I. 51] of Augustine, "creando infunditur, infundendo creatur. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
  • Moral pluralism asserts the existence of a multitude of incompatible but morally valuable forms of life.
  • There are a multitude of sounds, directional effects, and explosions to thrill any action fan.
  • These multitude blunders of the FFI 2004 only confirm the opinion that the organizers should be comprised of young people, instead of old-timers who suddenly resurface with the revival of the film scene.
  • And it is the representer that beareth the person, and but one person: and unity cannot otherwise be understood in multitude. Leviathan
  • The multitude of other mechanoreceptors act mainly as proprioceptors although some encode both proprioceptive and exteroceptive information.
  • Nahuatl terms written in alphabetical characters accompany the multitude of indigenous persons, places, and things listed and depicted in the codex.
  • If one opens the book at random, it is this multitude of references that catches the eye.
  • Simons continues to peruse a multitude of mediums that incorporate his gymnastic talent.
  • The multitude of wounds he'd collected on his way up were nothing beside his newest. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • They scouted the venerable old dogma of the divine right of kings and titled aristocracies to rule the submissive multitude. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
  • As I soaked in the hot water to wake up, my brain was awhirl in a multitude of thoughts.
  • Bursting with frantic energy, wry humour and a multitude of voices, it might be best described as a romantic comedy-thriller, but even this fails to capture its sparkling originality.
  • The burgeoning multitude of reality TV programmes drives me to distraction and is a deterrent to buying services that provide even more channels dispensing the same kind of dross.
  • Since that remote day Gladstone has been four times Premier; has delivered numberless speeches of the highest order of excellence; has published a multitude of pamphlets and volumes which attest consummate intellectual gifts, and has been a great force in English statesmanship and scholarship through an exceptionally long life and almost to the very close of it. The Grand Old Man
  • Sticking to a monochrome make-up palette will similarly mask a multitude of skin sins. Times, Sunday Times
  • As I soaked in the hot water to wake up, my brain was awhirl in a multitude of thoughts.
  • This kind of elimination, in which we do not eliminate any one assignable cause, but the multitude of floating unassignable ones, may be termed the A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
  • Everyone knows there are a multitude of organizations connected with optics, photonics, and lasers that serve the European community.
  • He went on marking things down on his clipboard, violently scratching a multitude of checks and notations onto the paper.
  • In the first case the multitude usurp a despotic power; in the second it is usurped by a single person. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
  • Multitude of years should teach wisdom. 
  • One is, the multitude of chimnies lately erected; whereas in their young days, there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm; (the religious houses and manor-places of their lords always excepted, and peradventure some great personage;) but each made his fire against a reredosse in the hall where he dined and dressed his meat. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
  • Charm can be a dubious quality, hiding a multitude of sins. Times, Sunday Times
  • He stepped out onto the balcony to address the multitude below.
  • Information is gathered from a multitude of sources including surface observation points, ships, buoys and aircraft.
  • I am glad to hear that Peter B is happy with what he call a decent organisation, its nice to know that out of the multitude of unhappy residents that at least a few are getting some service, just check this blog to see how the numbers stack up. Smells like trouble
  • There is also an increasing tendency to take cadets from the multitude of journalism courses, which focus on the skills which are easily picked on the job, rather than expanding the outlook and knowledge of graduates.
  • Cod are voracious feeders sometimes and will pick up a multitude of offerings in certain places and at various times of the season, so whatever you use, do make sure it is in the best possible condition.
  • I never hear of an inexperienced buyer in search of a rifle without being reminded of the purchaser of a telescope, who, on asking the optician, among a multitude of other questions, whether he would be able to discern an object through it four miles off, received for reply, 'See an object _four_ miles off, Sir? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
  • O Emir, of a truth, we are in jeopardy from the multitude of the foe who is on the walls. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • She doesn't come up with pat answers: Her character is as confused as the rest of who contain multitudes.
  • There were a multitude of stalls and an endless number of tractors on display.
  • We found a multitude of interesting subjects - flying gurnards and dragonets, strange octopuses and rainbow coloured nudibranchs, and even several different kinds of frogfish.
  • Their training, he said, ‘renders them very hostile to the revolutionary spirit and the unreflecting passions of the multitude.’
  • So, who were those multitudes venerating the relics of St Therese in Ireland last month?
  • Pull down menus offer easy access to the multitude of facilities and options can be selected by mouse or keyboard.
  • The result is an effort that encompasses a multitude of styles, from funk and soul to stirring ballads constructed around strong melodies.
  • Poor or bad management covers a multitude of sins that could include all of the above and more.
  • Dubai retains its awe for much of the area's people, offering the traveller a multitude of reasons to visit.
  • Through a series of about 30 maneuvers, the Snowbirds perform a multitude of loops, spins, criss-crosses and bursts that make formation flying appear easy.
  • The three areas have over two dozen ski lifts, mostly chairlifts and gondolas, serving a multitude of trails and runs from the valley floor to open slopes above treeline.
  • There are a multitude of coaches, back-up coaches and tactical and technical thinkers spending their lives trying to change rugby for the better. Times, Sunday Times
  • There were food riots in several of the Scotch towns, and in Glasgow the multitude assembled, and then commenced what they called a begging tour, but which was really a progress of not disguised intimidation. Endymion
  • When we expand political economy to encompass women's unwaged labor, including the multitude of forms of emotional labor (which Anthony McMahon gathers under the rubric of "taking care of men"), then it becomes clear, according to sociologist Anna G. Jónasdóttir, that "men ... continually appropriate significantly more of women's life force and capacity than they themselves give back to women. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83
  • Reduction reactions are also used by chemists to synthesize pharmaceuticals, textiles, dyes, paints, and a multitude of other important products.
  • They have tightened security measures to control the influence of extreme political sects among the uprooted multitudes.
  • The United States developed a multitude of delivery systems, ranging from multiple rocket launchers to missiles.
  • She was dressed in loose comfortable clothes that hid a multitude of sins.
  • Dressed in black, with a broad-brimmed white beaver hat, craped in consequence of the recent death of his wife, he bowed with composed ease and a somewhat military grace to the multitude. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
  • Vast multitudes of birds visit this lake in spring.
  • I left the gift on the teacher's desk (alongside the multitude of gifts the other kids had brought in this morning) and as I reached my car, I could hear the principal outside on a bullhorn, calling out student names.
  • Sometimes it's like being a school teacher with a multitude of naughty children to look after.
  • No doubt there is ressentiment, but it is ressentiment with a multitude of reasons that we need to understand, if not accept.
  • He soon knew every inch of the 1400 parts of the bridge and spent years filing the multitude of dovetail joints which hold the construction together.
  • But the scoring spree of the final quarter hid a multitude of sins. Times, Sunday Times
  • They increased their own effectiveness as a result, by improving the stability of their constituents, but at the same time they helped train an efficient modern work force and reduced the multitude of individual resistances to industrial society, ranging from idling on the job to theft and sabotage, that suggested far more fundamental hostility to modernity than the dictates of reason could counte - nance. PROTEST MOVEMENTS
  • He fummoned a council at Placentia, which confifted of four thoufand eccle - fiaflics, and thirty thoufand feculars; and which was o numerous that no hall could contain the multitude, and it was necefiary to hold the affembly in a plain. The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ...
  • Colourful multitudes thronged the traffic-congested streets, poring over programmes, posters and booking kits.
  • And joyous laughter echoed and re-echoed around the room and rolled over the city, lifting the hearts of the multitudes.
  • Walking along the path, we appreciated the flourishing bamboo that surrounded the multitudes of deep green water pools stocked with small fish.
  • For over 1500 years, before Akhenaton, ancient Egypt had worshipped a multitude of Gods and Goddesses each with their own particular properties and associated priests and temples. Legends of the Sun
  • On that boulevard of the bagnios, she bought a small parlour house from Mattie Silks and began recruiting the most seductive brides of the multitudes.
  • In autocratic states, one has to flatter only one person; in democratic states, one has to flatter the multitudes.
  • The flower-woman at the gate of her garden had now only autumnal blooms for sale in the vases which flanked the entrance; the windrows of the rowen, left steeping in the dews overnight, exhaled a faint fragrance; a poor remnant of the midsummer multitudes trailed itself along to the various cafes of the valley, its pink paper bags of bread rustling like sere foliage as it moved. Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete
  • There are dozens of scene switches, a multitude of props, yards of costume changes.
  • They sent us a multitude of useless video tapes, books and other assorted junk that we did not want.
  • He distributes a multitude of straws, which he inserts to stick out in different places, so that the halm may remind him of what his memory cannot retain. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
  • She loved to take her breaks here, where the freshening breeze from the forest could caress her fur, and she could watch and listen to the multitude of birds that made their homes there.
  • And for that no manne hath aucthoritie amonge them to giue fredome vnto anye of this bonde ofspring: The nombre of them by continuance, came vnto a greate multitude. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • Their implementation may have been chaotic and disorganized, but they were carried through with remarkable goodwill and even enthusiasm considering the multitude of vested interests they threatened or damaged.
  • A valuable weapon in the armoury of seduction, it covers a multitude of sins, including wrinkles and blemishes.
  • Large sweaters are warm and practical and hide a multitude of sins.
  • &c. these formed a kind of aristocratic order, who were distinguished from the minor gods, or from the multitude of ethnic divinities, who were entirely local; that is to say, were reverenced only in particular countries, or by individuals; as in Rome, where every citizen had his familiar spirit, called lares; and household god, called penates. The System of Nature, Volume 2
  • The attachment of a poxvirus particle to a cell triggers a multitude of incompletely understood signaling events inside the cell. New Scientist - Online News
  • Another cause is, for that it is briefer & more compendious, and easier to beare away and be retained in memorie, then that which is contained in multitude of words and full of tedious ambage and long periods. The Arte of English Poesie
  • The traffic came to a screeching halt and the faceless multitudes shuffling along the pavements actually paused to turn and look at the cause of it all.
  • We knew the enemy would collapse and the liberated multitudes cheer us into the capital.
  • The characteristic landscape of Merovingian villages is a settlement composed of scattered little hamlets, with a multitude of little fields separated by uncultivated lands.
  • We were obliged to fail along clofe by the bays; and feeing multitudes fetting imder the trees, I ordered a third gun to be fired among the cocoa-nut-trees to fcare them; for my bufinefs being to wood and water, I thought it neceffary to ftrike fome terror into the inhabitants, who were very numerous, and (by what I faw now, and had formerly ex - perienced) treacherous. Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World
  • Ingratitude is monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude: of the which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members. The Tragedy of Coriolanus
  • Whenever the pope visits a foreign country, multitudes throng the site for hours, even days, before he arrives.
  • What, again, shall be said of the two following, where Coriolanus snaps off his fierce scorn of the multitude? ” “What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
  • We reached, at last, towards sunset, a valley that, virent by the multitude and variety of its trees, changed the dreary similarity pervading all things; and a few sheep, that bleated loudly when they saw us, led us to hope we had come again within the line of animal existence. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
  • Thuriot shews himself from some pinnacle, to comfort the multitude becoming suspicious, fremescent: then descends; departs with protest; with warning addressed also to the Invalides, -- on whom, however, it produces but a mixed indistinct impression. The French Revolution
  • Yf the multitude finde no faulte, but allowe her as worthye to please for her bodye, then marieth she to some one ther, whome she beste liketh. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
  • It is a well-attested fact, especially since the sacred precincts of established truth have been raided by every puerile pedant and sciolist who can handle a pen, that any absurdity whatever, so long as it is clad "in the lion's skin" and no matter how loudly it brays, has some fatal claim upon the rambling credulity of the multitude. The Doctor's Daughter
  • The river was near at hand, still wearing its Parisian aspect, filled with chains, bathing establishments, great barges, and multitudes of little, skiffs, with a layer of coaldust on their pretentious, freshly-painted names, tied to the pier and rocking to the slightest motion of the water. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • Had railroad facilities been abundant a multitude of small cultivators might have shipped their cane to central mills for manufacture, but as things were the weight and the perishableness of the cane made milling within the reach of easy cartage imperative. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
  • There was no knowing the sense of the people; for when the chief captain enquired concerning Paul, having perhaps never heard of his name before (such strangers were the great ones to the excellent ones of the earth, and affected to be so), some cried one thing, and some another, among the multitude; so that it was impossible for the chief captain to know their mind, when really they knew not either one another's mind or their own, when every one pretended to give the sense of the whole body. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • The immemorial mile of cheap foul doggeries remained, but business was dull with them; the multitudes of poison-swilling Irishmen had departed, and in their places were a few scattering handfuls of ragged negroes, some drinking, some drunk, some nodding, others asleep. Life on the Mississippi
  • Detailed and tailored to perfect, you can use this as the base to build upon from the multitude of bed dressing such as duvet covers, comforters, pillow shams and so much more.
  • The northern coast counties are made up largely of mountains, but imbosomed in these lie many charming little, and several quite spacious, valleys, in which you are surprised to find a multitude of farmers living, isolated from the world, that life of careless and easy prosperity which is the lot of farmers in the fat valleys of California. Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
  • The ADATA Horus Series power supply unit provide 550W, 650W, 750W, 850W, and 1200W multitude choice with true continuous power, featuring Eye of Horus– Intelligent LED fan dual ball-bearing with 3 colors to display output power, 80 Plus Bronze, NVIDIA SLI-ready certified, and modularized cable management to delivers superior performance, high reliability and protection on all levels application. May 2010 - Fareastgizmos.com
  • In the “Thai Polyester Fiber” case we can analyze the multitude of problems encountered by two French firms involved in constructing and installing a $50-million polyester polymerization and filature plant in Thailand, in a joint venture with a major local business group. Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies
  • He went straight into the town and entered the marketplace fearlessly, at the time when the multitude filled it.
  • Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new. Galileo Galilei 
  • The Pilgrims dined on heaps of freshly killed turkey, mashed potatoes, yams, radishes, apple pie, and a multitude of other treats on sturdy, rugged tables built especially for the occasion.
  • Quick-growing wattles and eucalypts (gum trees) spread through the country for a multitude of uses on farms, mines, and railways and became a mark of habitation.
  • When we embrace the multitude of healing modalities available to us all, medicine will no longer need to overprescribe dangerous drugs and overutilize high-tech diagnostics simply because it has nothing else to offer. Larry Malerba, D.O. : What Is the 'Green' Medicine Revolution? (Part III)
  • With scarcely any natural life save for a multitude of rock formations and thin brush, the flat, dusty wasteland was more of an eyesore than an eyeful.
  • Stengler describes a multitude of illnesses which herbs, chemicals, homeopathic nostrums, acupuncture, etc. will fix.
  • The scenes from 19th century Edinburgh, with its multitude of epidemics of typhus, smallpox, plague, and other mysterious fevers, might still be seen in any part of the developing world.
  • The word that I came away from her reading is heterachronia–a multitude of times–similar to heterotopia, which means a multitude of places. March « 2009 « Dynamic Subspace
  • The term joint venture'is used to refer to a multitude of arrangements and relationships, some fairly loose, others characterized by formal equity participation in a new third entity.
  • The rabbinic visions of blessings and amens is expressed by the verse: the King's glory is in the multitude of the nation.
  • This is partly owing to the dung of a vast multitude of seafowl, and partly to a coating of a hard glossy substance with Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • But the reality is that women face a multitude of problems when deciding if and when to have a family, despite the prospect of a childless future glaring at them from newspaper headlines.
  • She has explored the isles of the ocean for objects of commiseration; but, amazing stupidity! she can gaze without emotion on a multitude of miserable beings at home, large enough to constitute a nation of freemen, whom tyranny has heathenized by law. William Lloyd Garrison
  • Aides listened in adjoining rooms and simultaneous translators coped with the multitude of languages. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the first case the multitude usurp a despotic power; in the second it is usurped by a single person. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
  • Saracens themselves, and Italians, and Russians, were attentive to the multitudes of Mongols and Tartars.
  • The Tynes, perched in their multitudes on the hand-carved cart that had lain cherished and unused in their garage.
  • In our society, a multitude of spiritual gurus clamor for our attention.
  • They shine like suns, these two, amid multitudes of watery comets and tenebrific constellations, too sorrowful without such admixture on occasion! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.
  • And across the Inland Empire, in a multitude of saloons called ‘Mint bars’ and ‘Stockmen's bars,’ silver-dollar-jangling miners and cowpokes speak up loudly in a man's world, while the roads to something-else are still walked by cocky, freewheeling itinerant ranch hands, gandy dancers and bindlestiffs.
  • I trust, that I have not extended this privilege beyond the grounds on which I have claimed it; namely, the conveniency of the scholastic phrase to distinguish the kind from all degrees, or rather to express the kind with the abstraction of degree, as for instance multeity instead of multitude; or secondly, for the sake of correspondence in sound in interdependent or antithetical terms, as subject and object; or lastly, to avoid the wearying recurrence of circumlocutions and definitions. Biographia Literaria
  • I'm of the opinion that although exercise provides a multitude of health benefits, *exercise* Photo food diary | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • [Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9.cap. l2.] continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished and ouerthrowen: The words are these; Ab ipso verò die tertiæ feriæ dum sic in superbia et elatione suæ multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, et multis armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, sexta feria appropinquante. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I
  • a man, with all the moving instincts of a loving and tender heart: and as a ruler, sure of his duty, he spoke the disinthralling edict, when multitudes still doubted: as a man he rejoiced in the glorious prospect of a race emancipated from a bondage more cruel than the grave, and elevated to the privileges of manhood and the opportunity of respect and honor. A Commemorative Discourse on the Death of Abraham Lincoln
  • The multitude of available food products makes the age-old snack of graham crackers and vanilla wafers obsolete.
  • The dumb village multitudes pass on unchanging; the feel of the spade in the hand is no different for all our talk: good seasons and bad follow each other as of old.
  • It was an elite that believed its task was to enlighten the multitude.
  • The smile is a big cloak which covers a multitude of pains. Times, Sunday Times
  • The multitude fled with precipitation towards the city; several were slain, and many more were trampled to death; but when the cavalry entered the streets, their pursuit was checked by a shower of stones and darts from the roofs and windows of the houses. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • It is true that I judge those Princes unfelicitous who, to assure their state when the multitude is hostile, have to take extraordinary means; for he who has only a few enemies can easily and without great scandals make sure of them, but he who has the general public hostile to him can never make sure of them, and the more cruelty he uses, so much more weak becomes his Principate; so that the best remedy he has is to seek to make the People friendly. Discourses
  • And as we see it in experience, that dogs do always bark at those they know not, and that it is their nature to accompany one another in those clamors: so it is with the inconsiderate multitude; who wanting that virtue which we call honesty in all men, and that especial gift of God which we call charity in Christian men, condemn without hearing, and wound without offence given: led thereunto by uncertain report only; which his Majesty truly acknowledged for the author of all lies. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations
  • Multitudes of every rank thronged him; but especially the heathenized and embruted colliers near Bristol listened to the unknown gospel, and their awakened feelings were revealed to the preacher by his observing the white gutters made by the tears that ran down their grimy faces. A History of American Christianity
  • Before he could extricate himself, the runners preceding the pageant returning the great god to his shrine, beat the multitude back from the dromos and once again Kenkenes was imprisoned by the hosts. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
  • Marking the 40th anniversary of the existence of the union of seven churches has been a culmination of a multitude of ups and downs for the UCZ.
  • And so, afar and anear, alone and in a multitude, we will celebrate the figure of a sole, slim African-American man as he lays his hand on the bible. Diana Meehan: What I'm Wearing for the Inauguration
  • Some experts also say that cleft lip and palate may be a marker for a multitude of severe congenital abnormalities.
  • There are a multitude of coaches, back-up coaches and tactical and technical thinkers spending their lives trying to change rugby for the better. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are dozens of scene switches, a multitude of props, yards of costume changes.
  • In addition to primary airports there are a multitude of landing strips able to receive small planes.
  • But when we and they share a common love and awe for God, we augment the sanctity of the world in glorifying God among the multitudes of peoples.
  • He never bludgeons or scalps or scarifies; but serenely indicates, with the calm gesture of a superior authority, the defects and blots which mar perfection, but which the unthinking multitude ignores, or, at worst, admires. Matthew Arnold
  • The first few nights I slept on the lounge room floor, I was plagued with a multitude of simple life lessons unlearnt in any other experience in my existence.
  • The multitude of camera shots and angles make for a disjointed and fragmented composition that enhances the sense of fear and paranoia of not knowing where the next shot is coming from.
  • By the sheer multitude of paradoxical formulations in his Gargantua et Pantagruel, particularly clustered in the Tiers livre, Rabelais offers a wonderful anthol - ogy of Renaissance paradoxy. LITERARY PARADOX
  • And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
  • The problem, moreover, with value added is that the calculations can be made to hide a multitude of sins.
  • Even so, the light of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ shone then into the hearts of the unchurched multitudes.
  • Then, as he recovers from the initial shock, he grows accustomed to his good fortune, or acts on a theory drawn from the common multitude of easily won women. 2009 February 15 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • He didn't really relish the idea of staying close to a fan of his; while it was nice having fans and being adored by the multitudes, it wasn't quite so nice having fans up close.
  • Portable and lightweight with a spring-loaded clip and swivel head which turns in two directions, the Dorcy Clip Light has a multitude of uses.
  • The procession now re-formed, in the order in which it had arrived, and to the lilt of the gay music of the powerful band, the volatile spirits of the multitude revived, and the loud "huzzahs" rent the air as The Mark of the Beast
  • Multitudes of people are still reported missing and unaccounted for.
  • Many different languages were spoken, and a multitude of sectional hatreds were combined in troubled cacophony.
  • Her honey-brown hair, partially covered by a thin white veil of sendal and crowned with a narrow golden coronet, was dressed in a multitude of thin plaits threaded with jeweled bangles. Conqueror's Moon
  • The next day the miraculous body was shewn to the multitude, though it is honestly stated by the chronicler that the whole of it, including the face, was covered with linen, the only flesh visible being through a chink left in the cerecloths at the neck.
  • The willing of the good springs not from love, but appears as something entirely independent and unbased, along-side of knowledge and along-side of love; and for the very reason that Aristotle knows not the moral power of love, he can discover for the civic virtue of the great multitude no other motive than fear. Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.
  • There were no reported traffic problems, despite a multitude of motorists making their way to the showground, and families in their thousands enjoyed a traditional day out.
  • But it was long ere these scandalous and immoral sports could be abrogated; — the rude multitude continued attached to their favourite pastimes, and, both in England and Scotland, the mitre of the Catholic — the rochet of the reformed bishop — and the cloak and band of the Calvinistic divine — were, in turn, compelled to give place to those jocular personages, the Pope of The Abbot
  • My main problem with the call for routine and universal HIV testing is that I am skeptical about the planning and preparation that is being done by the appropriate government, health and public policy officials for the multitudes of HIV+ individuals that will be unearthed as a result of this signifucant policy shift. Archive 2006-07-01
  • Higher still are the records or memories of individual experience and the registration of individual habits, while on the surface is the instreaming multitude of messages from the outside world, like raindrops and hailstones on the stream, some of them penetrating deeply, being, as we say, full of meaning. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
  • But the meanest thing that I ever heard of his doing, was this: In these same woods -- the woods where the huckleberries and hazel nuts grew -- there were great multitudes of birch trees, of different species and among the rest, some of that species which goes by the name, among children, of _black birch_. Mike Marble His Crotchets and Oddities.
  • Considering the multitude of arguments you have assigned to me that I did not make, the only one making you look "addled" is you. Sex and the single Marvel super heroine | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • Today, we not only drive derivatives of those classic nameplates, we drive derivatives of a multitude of brands that weren't around when Henry Ford first built the Model-T.
  • As always, the performances run the gamut from pricey indoor shows to the multitude of free shows outdoors.
  • Inject your writing with a distinctive voice to help differentiate it from the multitude of content on the Web.
  • The fawning multitudes elbowed each other behind barricades to catch a 10-second glimpse of a lady who would say little, do nothing, and contribute even less.
  • Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke had spared no expense to feed the multitude.
  • Sledging accidents in Britain cause a multitude of injuries, including spinal trauma.
  • A multitude of beautiful shapes appeared to be comprehended within its single outline; it was a kind of kaleidoscopic mystery, so rich a variety of aspects did it assume from each altered point of view, through the presentation of a different face, and the rearrangement of its peaks and pinnacles and the three battlemented towers, with the spires that shot heavenward from all three, but one loftier than its fellows. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
  • What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?
  • The city has a multitude of problems, from homelessness to drugs and murder.
  • It remains unclear, however, if there exist multitudes of women who self-identify as post-feminist, or if this is in fact a media creation.
  • That man has a duty to so domesticate his passions to serve his reason we can deduce from the raw fact that the appetites are a multitude of contradictory desires, as easily able to be inconsistent with surrounding facts of reality as consistent. Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy
  • aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude
  • Broadband internet access will be available for each student and all apartments will be readily convertible to a multitude of domestic layouts.
  • When markets grow rapidly, they cover a multitude of sins and it is pretty hard - although not impossible - for even a poorly managed company to do badly.
  • This skirt covers a multitude of sins. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thus they continued in such error, blindness, decrees, sophisms, superstitions; idle ceremonies and traditions were the sum of their new-coined holiness and religion, and by these knaveries and stratagems they were able to involve multitudes, to deceive the most sanctified souls, and, if it were possible, the very elect. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • The Prince and chief peres doe decaie, and al the whole multitude dooe perishe: the baseste kinde of menne A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
  • The city has a multitude of problems, from homelessness to drugs and murder.
  • No Merry Andrew, to stir up the multitude with jests, perhaps hundreds of years old, but still effective, by their appeals to the very broadest sources of mirthful sympathy.
  • As the roiling backwash streamed past, it scoured around me, and when the froth cleared, there beneath my feet were multitudes of clams, all small and without hydroids.
  • The sincere and succinct work has won a multitude of readers and gained the applause of local critics.
  • Through a series of about 30 maneuvers, the Snowbirds perform a multitude of loops, spins, criss-crosses and bursts that make formation flying appear easy.
  • And also such another chariot with such hosts ordained and arrayed go with the empress upon another side, everych by himself, with four hosts, right as the emperor did; but not with so great multitude of people. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • He was one of a multitude of Minnesotans digging, plowing and blowing their way out from under Saturday's ripsnorter of a storm. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • It would only be a blind man who did not notice the multitudes of Gucci, Louis Vuitton, diamonds and designer this and that adorning a larger than average proportion of the population.
  • Here was an innumerable multitude of people gathered together, so that they trade one upon another, in labouring to get foremost, and to come within hearing. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • The following year she moved to the guardship Royal Sovereign, then decided to serve an apprenticeship as a shipwright, which she managed despite hard work and awful difficulties, with the help of her multitude of friends many of whom were girlfriends, with whom she had lighthearted and probably lesbian relationships. The Female Shipwright
  • It used to be the wonder fibre found in a multitude of products, but now it's a dirty word.
  • Mizuna grows a multitude of long, thin, crisp leaves. Times, Sunday Times
  • We always felt our own activity, for example, as 'the expansion of an idea with which our Self is identified, against an obstacle'; and the following out of such a definition through a multitude of cases elaborates the obvious so as to be little more than an exercise in synonymic speech. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
  • Three barges, smothered in floury dust, were being unloaded of their cargoes of powdered felspar by a multitude of coughing men, each guiding a little truck; the dust filled the place with a choking mist, and turned the electric glare yellow. When the Sleeper Wakes
  • RHP Rolando Arrojo has good stuff, uses a multitude of arm angles and mixes his pitches well.
  • Tales of how he had been way-laid and got free; of how he had been generous and got free; of how he had been angry and went marching with the speed of an eagle and the direct onfall of a storm; while in front and at the sides, angled from the prow of his terrific advance, were fleeing multitudes who did not dare to wait and scarce had time to run. Irish Fairy Tales

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