"Countless" Quotes from Famous Books
... a boy had good reason to be frightened, it was Herbert Randolph. His situation was one to drive men mad—in that dark, damp cellar, thus surrounded and beset by this countless horde of rats. The cold perspiration stood out upon him, and he trembled ... — The Boy Broker - Among the Kings of Wall Street • Frank A. Munsey
... we went out, and the countless fires lighting up the lofty oaks had a most pleasing effect. The sheep were by this time cut up, and lying in fragments, around which the supper parties were seated cross-legged. Other peasants danced slowly, in a circle, to the drone of the ... — Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family • Andrew Archibald Paton
... cut in the rock walls, niches that held the countless bones of those who had died many, many years before. It ... — Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders - or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold • Victor Appleton
... important events occurred. The power of Napoleon was crumbling in that year and countless historians have written countless pages describing innumerable events, great and small, which accompanied that colossal downfall. But one event of that year, of which we do not read in our historical memoirs and school books ... — Popular Science Monthly Volume 86
... man who was about to receive into his single hand the destinies of half the world; whose single will was, for the future, to shape the fortunes of every individual then present, of many millions more in Europe, America, and at the ends of the earth, and of countless millions yet unborn. ... — The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
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