myriads

So although I believe an ebook is more versatile in myriads of aspects, I am uncertain if society is ready for the electronic change.

Interview with Michael Pastore: Ebooks and Digital Publishing | The Creative Penn 2009

They come suddenly down from the sky in myriads, on their way to the continent, and I have known them to strip the little plot of every green shoot in a single day, utterly bare.

An Island Garden 1894

I stretch forth my arm, and I seize the people of Nubia in myriads, and the nations of the North in millions, and I bind them for thee in sheaves!

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers 1891

Will God be appeased by my offering so much oil that it shall flow in myriads of torrents? my first-born -- (2Ki 3: 27).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

They flock here in myriads, and it was only last evening that I had pointed out to me a gentleman with a gracefully-curved proboscis who, by a lucky stroke of "Pishness, my tears," had succeeded in bagging a hundred thousand dollars of the public money.

The Mason and Slidell Case, and Its Effect on the Americans 1862

We were hungry, tired, and out of spirits; the mosquitoes swarmed in myriads around us, tormenting the poor baby, who, not at all pleased with her first visit to the new world, filled the air with cries; when the captain came to tell us, that the boat was ready.

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

Arabia and the Turkish hordes; his cavalry might be numerous, though we should deduct some myriads from the hundred and thirty thousand horses of the royal stables; and the expense of the armament was computed at four millions sterling, or one hundred thousand pounds of gold.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Heraclius.] 95 This number of eight myriads is specified by George of Pisidia, (Bell.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

In the shower of gold flung out as a good-night to me, and as the star of evening smiled down upon me in the purpling twilight and began calling her myriads of companions to their sentry-posts to keep watch over me through the hours of the night in that strange land, I felt, I think, the spirit of the poetry,

My Three Days in Gilead Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel

_Book of John_ (Sidra d'Yahya), Yahya, that is to say, St. John, baptized myriads of men during forty years in the Jordan.

Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918