Adjective : a measureless distance; measureless contempt. From Dictionary.com.
The nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh ... was built in measureless aeons behind history by the vast, loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars. From Wordnik.com. [Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn] Reference
Rummel, through caverns measureless to man, ran on below. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
O! measureless and merciless! vindictive, wild, and stern!. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
How measureless we thought the politician's greatness then!. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
England, its warm-hearted people, and their measureless kindness. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
Passed she along the path to the edge of the measureless prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
There is measureless grandeur and power in his moral speculations. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850] Reference
The moving principle in the Vatican was the measureless ambition of. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
O master and king, holding earth in your swing, O measureless infinite Air. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
There has been staggering loss of life and measureless wastage of materials. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Make them dear to both worlds, make them the recipients of measureless grace. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation on Bahá’í Education] Reference
He had repaid her flouting of him by tireless devotion and a measureless service!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
No American citizen could, by any possibility, be so shut in measureless content. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
I, too, have bubbled up, floated the measureless float, and been washed on your shores. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
Even so, it was only the tiniest hop-skip-and-jump in the measureless vastness of space. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
Thracians who live opposite, and they brought back hither measureless booty and maidens too. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
They suffer hotly for it, with the measureless capacity for suffering belonging to the young. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
"Don't you?" lie said, and the measureless contempt in his voice stung like the lash of a whip. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
Such was the measureless power wielded by Louis XIV.; such was the want of virile stuff in Racine. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
It is startling to think how measureless the influence of such a man is in its effect on the world. From Wordnik.com. [Russell H. Conwell] Reference
He almost flinched from the look of measureless anguish that leapt into the others man's eyes in response. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
On the other hand, if we hold to simple needs we avoid all these evils and replace them by measureless good. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
It is unthinkable that one species and only one reached the measureless distance between the monkey and man. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments] Reference
Obed Hussey is dead, but his machine still lives, an article of measureless value to the great world of agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [Obed Hussey Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap] Reference
It was a big universe, with measureless millions of stars, and plenty of room for more than two intelligent civilizations. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
This tickled Mr. Sloppy as an extraordinarily good joke, and he threw back his head and laughed with measureless enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Girls from Dickens] Reference
And measureless anguish seized them and they shouted out in their wrath; and with the cry sleep released its hold upon her. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
My obligation is more than I can ever repay, and I promise that my gratitude shall be eternal and measureless like the world. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Then it ebbed away again, and he found himself crooning unemotionally, 'For years -- a measureless ill -- for ever, for ever!'. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
In this secluded spot, far from the gaieties of Court life, with the vast Atlantic rolling measureless and mysterious before him. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Singhali, Urdu, Hindustani, Bengali, and the Marowsky language, for the "Kitchens measureless to man" (see COALRIDGE), of the Golden. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 21, 1892] Reference
But at the same time, the government reminds us, this enhanced enforcement of traffic law led to measureless frustration and distress. From Wordnik.com. [Well, that's the Top Gear vote sewn up for the coalition] Reference
That, then, is the main thought suggested by these chapters -- the measureless influence of women in forming lives for evil or for good. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
It was through his prowess that I had owned formerly measureless precious jewels of various kinds which at present Syodhana hath usurped. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
It was through his prowess that I had owned formerly measureless precious jewels of various kinds which at present Suyodhana hath usurped. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1] Reference
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