But in his family, as in the Crawleys and numberless less-glamorous families, sides were taken.

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Balancing these are numberless images of devotional scenes, the Nativity, the Madonna and other religious figures.

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He went through a series of wives and numberless mistresses long-term and passing fancies as he produced his books.

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In the eyes of many foreigners and reform-minded Yemenis, qat is the root of the country's numberless ills.

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But Butterworth's England is also soaked in the fiery poetry of myths of revolt - "and behind them bay the devil's army, and we are numberless".

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There are numberless spheres where it can continue to serve our nations well at this time better than our own mass media are able to provide this service.

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What about the numberless words with different meanings?

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With rare exceptions, notably Lenovo, which purchased IBM's laptop business, and Haier, the maker of cheap, small refrigerators that furnish the rooms of numberless students, Chinese names have failed to make much of a dent.

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It is hard not to think that anyone who writes more books (70-plus) than many people have read, as well as numberless articles and essays, must be at the controls of a sausage machine, yet the sausages were usually good.

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And as in the daily casualties of life every man is, as it were, threatened with numberless deaths, so long as it remains uncertain which of them is his fate, I would ask whether it is not better to suffer one and die, than to live in fear of all?

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