Crossword clues for eternities
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eternity \E*ter"ni*ty\, n.; pl. Eternities. [F.
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Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity.
--Is. lvii. 15. -
Condition which begins at death; immortality.
Thou know'st 't is common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of eternity English)
Usage examples of "eternities".
After such exhausting eternities of formlessness, even the shadow of form was a release of tension, almost an explosion of pleasure.
Although he walked for eternities, days, hours, aeons, he could not reach it.
He felt sick and violated, but he struggled on, and after eternities this too was gone.
Finally Morley couldn't sleep at all and got up and went to the car probably to talk to himself in that mad way of his and I got a wink of sleep, but in a few minutes he was back, freezing, and got under the sleeping-bag blanket but started to turn and turn again, even curse once in a while, or sigh, and this went on for what seemed to be eternities and the first thing I knew Aurora was paling the eastern hems of Amida and pretty soon we'd be getting up anyway.
The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.