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Writers use “limitless” to evoke a sense of boundlessness that spans both tangible landscapes and abstract experiences. In descriptions of nature, it accentuates the vast expanse of plains and seas—as seen in passages depicting endless terrain ([1], [2], [3], [4])—creating a backdrop that dwarfs human endeavors. At the same time, the word extends into emotional and conceptual realms, where it captures unending love, imagination, or creative possibility ([5], [6], [7]). This flexible term, whether employed to illustrate nature’s infinite horizons or the immeasurable depths of human passion and thought ([8], [9]), enriches literary expression by suggesting that some aspects of life and existence defy all limitations.
  1. The limitless plain, swallows up their track; They come with their escort of people in black.
    — from Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Emile Verhaeren
  2. How desolate looms before us the edge of the limitless land!
    — from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius
  3. The travellers had now only to descend to the Atlantic by limitless plains, levelled by nature.
    — from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
  4. Before me I could see nothing but the vast and apparently limitless sea—upon which we floated—the only living objects in sight.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  5. O the joy of that vast elemental sympathy which only the human soul is capable of generating and emitting in steady and limitless floods.
    — from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  6. He can say with Glinka: ‘For my limitless imagination I must have a precise and given text.’”
    — from Philip Hale's Boston Symphony Programme Notes by Philip Hale
  7. The king’s spirits rose, his joy was limitless.
    — from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
  8. (4) Limitless Compassion for all living things is the surest and most certain token of a really good man.
    — from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer
  9. I suppose, as a proof of limitless wealth, leisure, and the aforesaid "gentility," it was tremendous.
    — from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman

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