Word: countless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hearer may have a source in either association or suggestion. Being in itself moving and beautiful music is our companion at many moments of emotional exaltation, and has further some of its most important uses as adjunct to poetry and the drama. These applications are the source of countless associations of the most varied and powerful kinds...
...more reverentially loyal among the countless admirers of Sir Thomas Mallory and his delightful tales of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table may almost be shocked by the ruthless way in which their heroes have been descrated in Mark Twain's last production "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." There is a tone about the book which grates harshly upon the sensibilities of the reader-a tone which calls forth the feeling that the author would have succeeded far better had he displayed half the good taste that he has the humor. This last characteristic...
...bill is the leading article. It is in continuation of the Gladstone-Blaine duel in the January number, where those two advocates of opposing theories flourished their steels simultaneously and by mutual agreement. Mr. Mills tersely, and with sledge-hammer vigor, answers Mr. Blaine, arguing that protection leads to countless other ills besides the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few. Great Britain has left us sadly in the lurch, he says, with her free trade. She has swept our vessels from the seas and is now carrying not only her own products to markets, but a large...