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  • noun Plural form of eternity.

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Examples

  • For death in the family she must also provide, so the eternities are her concern.

    London's Underworld Thomas Holmes 1882

  • But remember the power of my uncovered neck, uncovered and bare moving eternities.

    hot earth Jerry Ratch 2011

  • From "birth till death" we travel between the eternities.

    Michael Conniff: God in Grand Junction Michael Conniff 2010

  • I knew it because someone -- maybe more than one person -- had given this some real thought to this and had managed to bring the management of an airport hotel into alignment with not one but two eternities on a single page.

    Michael Conniff: God in Grand Junction Michael Conniff 2010

  • I knew it because someone -- maybe more than one person -- had given this some real thought to this and had managed to bring the management of an airport hotel into alignment with not one but two eternities on a single page.

    Michael Conniff: God in Grand Junction Michael Conniff 2010

  • For a moment, the briefest of eternities, I could feel the shape of his fingers, the texture of his skin, the warmth of his touch.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • It seemed eternities had passed since Catfish had poured the slab.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • I knew it because someone -- maybe more than one person -- had given this some real thought to this and had managed to bring the management of an airport hotel into alignment with not one but two eternities on a single page.

    Michael Conniff: God in Grand Junction Michael Conniff 2010

  • For a moment, the briefest of eternities, I could feel the shape of his fingers, the texture of his skin, the warmth of his touch.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • From "birth till death" we travel between the eternities.

    Michael Conniff: God in Grand Junction Michael Conniff 2010

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