1 For a fleeting immeasurable instant, he pressed her body close to his.
2 For an immeasurable second the two spectators of the incident were silent; then the house-door closed, the hansom rolled off, and the whole scene slipped by as if with the turn of a stereopticon.
3 That unblinkingly vivid Japanese sun seems the blazing focus of the glassy ocean's immeasurable burning-glass.
4 He appeared to address condescending words to him from an immeasurable height.
5 And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness.
6 The cell was clean, though empty, and dry, though situated at an immeasurable distance under the earth.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 114. Peppino. 7 I might be driven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tortures of starvation or be swallowed up in the immeasurable waters that roared and buffeted around me.
8 Having uttered those words in a most lamentable and heart-broken tone: to the immeasurable delight of her hearers: Miss Nancy paused, winked to the company, nodded smilingly round, and disappeared.
9 But, temporal or spatial, the esthetic image is first luminously apprehended as selfbounded and selfcontained upon the immeasurable background of space or time which is not it.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 10 As they took wing for this it seemed to him that they were flying indeed, flying far up into the cloudy night, with Starkfield immeasurably below them, falling away like a speck in space.
11 Scarlett had found that a drink of neat brandy before supper helped immeasurably and she would always chew coffee or gargle cologne to disguise the smell.
12 To his impatience it seemed immeasurably long to wait, and half-ashamed of the impulse, he leaned to Mrs. Fisher to ask, as the music ceased, if Miss Bart had not dined with her.
13 The terrific character of their merciless enemies increased immeasurably the natural horrors of warfare.
14 Ulysses answered, "Telemachus, you ought not to be so immeasurably astonished at my being really here."
15 Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew.