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  • Despite my having cross'd into a Realm where I had no further Use for Money, or, such Baubles as a Watch fac'd as I was with an Infinitude of Time, I determin'd to avenge myself; and, so endeavour'd to discourage Custom by laying ghostly Hands and breathing a cold Breath on Any who would enter Cruikshank's Premises.

    When lawyers shop... Ann Althouse 2009

  • Altho', as a Ghost, it seems to have pleas'd God to grant me an Infinitude of Time, the same cannot be said of the Gentleman whose Brain I now haunt.

    "A 'Virtuous vanilla' lip balm and a 'Get Tight with Christ' hand and body cream, featuring a picture of Christ flanked by two adoring women." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Altho', as a Ghost, it seems to have pleas'd God to grant me an Infinitude of Time, the same cannot be said of the Gentleman whose Brain I now haunt.

    Sir Archy alert. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Divinity to speak, but does not presume to employ his person; the majesty of Infinitude utters itself, but no robe-maker undertakes to dress it for the occasion.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

  • I contemplated the Unity of God, and in the Unity, I beheld His Eternity without beginning or end; His immense Greatness; His adorable Infinitude; and in an ecstasy of admiration, I could only exclaim, 'Goodness!

    The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation A Religious of the Ursuline Community

  • Infinitude of movement, infinitude of life, ineffable beauty.

    Vignettes of San Francisco Almira Bailey

  • And if, ‘looked at from the Moon, which itself is far from Infinitude, ’ Napoleon’s dominions were as small as mine, what, by any chance of possibility, could Abbotsford landed-property ever have become?

    Paras. 50-73 1909

  • Man stands as in the centre of Nature; his fraction of Time encircled by Eternity, his handbreadth of Space encircled by Infinitude: how shall he forbear asking himself, What am I; and Whence; and Whither?

    Paras. 20-39 1909

  • Considered well, Society is the standing wonder of our existence; a true region of the Supernatural; as it were, a second all-embracing Life, wherein our first individual Life becomes doubly and trebly alive, and whatever of Infinitude was in us bodies itself forth, and becomes visible and active.

    Paras. 1-19 1909

  • His actual pictures of departed souls suggest a state very unlike that reversion of the infinite spirit which had been thrust upon Matter and distended in Time, to the timeless Infinitude it had forgone.

    Robert Browning Herford, C H 1905

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