It got to be pitch dark, at last, and the
multitude groaned with horror to feel the cold uncanny night breezes fan through the place and see the stars come out and twinkle in the sky.
Close inshore was a multitude of fishing smacks--English, Scotch, French, Dutch, and Swedish; steam launches from the Thames, yachts, electric boats; and beyond were ships of large burden, a multitude of filthy colliers, trim merchantmen, cattle ships, passenger boats, petroleum tanks, ocean tramps, an old white transport even, neat white and grey liners from Southampton and Hamburg; and along the blue coast across the Blackwater my brother could make out dimly a dense swarm of boats chaffering with the people on the beach, a swarm which also extended up the Blackwater almost to Maldon.
The whole steamer from end to end rang with frantic cheering that was taken up first by one and then by all in the crowding multitude of ships and boats that was driving out to sea.
that multitude, too stupid to feel either pity or fear.
And the incorruptible Professor walked too, averting his eyes from the odious multitude of mankind.
However, granting it is there, that is no reason why I am bound to believe the stories of all those Amadises and of all that
multitude of knights they tell us about, nor is it reasonable that a man like your worship, so worthy, and with so many good qualities, and endowed with such a good understanding, should allow himself to be persuaded that such wild crazy things as are written in those absurd books of chivalry are really true."
When at some distance from the
multitude, the old man turned slowly round, displaying a face of antique majesty, rendered doubly venerable by the hoary beard that descended on his breast.
The Frenchman and the two Americans had by this time entered the enclosure reserved in the center of the
multitude. They were accompanied by the members of the Gun Club, and by deputations sent from all the European Observatories.
After the visitor had gone a brilliant and gorgeous city appeared upon the mountain top, clearly visible to the eyes of the gaily dressed
multitude of Phanfasms that lived there.
But he opposes to me -- with a young man's over-softness, albeit wise beyond his years -- that it were wronging the very nature of woman to force her to lay open her heart's secrets in such broad daylight, and in presence of so great a
multitude. Truly, as I sought to convince him, the shame lay in the commission of the sin, and not in the showing of it forth.
This feat of horsemanship again attracted the applause of the
multitude.
Turning like a headed deer, he shot, with the swiftness of an arrow, through a pillar of forked flame, and passing the whole
multitude harmless, he appeared on the opposite side of the clearing.