Manifold ['mxnIfquld] - 1) pазличный, разнообразный, разный; 2) множественный, многочисленный

~ ‘noun’

1. I was bound by a solemn promise which I had not yet fulfilled and dared not break, or if I did, what manifold miseries might not impend over me and my devoted family! Я был связан серьезным обещанием, которое я еще не сдержал, но и не осмеливался нарушить, так как если бы нарушил, то множество разнообразных невзгод нависло бы надо мной и моей семьей.
2. The Christian admits that the universe is manifold and even miscellaneous, just as a sane man knows that he is complex. Христиане признают, что вселенная разнообразна и многочислена, также как и любой здравомышлящий человек знает что, он складывается из множества составляющих.
3. Despite the manifold attractions of the latter, I do not intend to take up my abode here. Несмотря на разнообразные привлекательности последнего, я не собираюсь сюда заселяться.

• Both felt high swelling hopes of manifold success; both consciously possessed the high order of intelligence which sets a man on a level with lofty heights, consigned though they were socially to the lowest level. Two Poets, by Honore de Balzac
• A compound of hydrogen and oxygen gives off, according to their relative proportions, under the same conditions and by the same principle, these manifold colors, each of which constitutes a distinct result. The Alkahest, by Honore de Balzac
• Indeed yesterday I was excusable, for my wife was brought to bed in the night, and all day I was busy with manifold matters, but tomorrow, without fail, come and take thy cloth dyed. The Arabian Nights, by Sir Richard Burton
• Then it came out by little and little, how that the twins had been revolving in their good old heads manifold plans and schemes for helping this young lady in the most delicate and considerate way, The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens
• The manifold beauties of the Cathedral and Baptistery need no recapitulation from me; though in this case, as in a hundred others, I find it difficult to separate my own delight in recalling them, from your weariness in having them recalled. Pictures From Italy, by Charles Dickens
• As soon as she had a little recollected her spirits, and somewhat composed herself with a cordial, she began to inform the company of the manifold injuries she had received from her husband The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding
• Really it was no longer clear how life, with its manifold emergencies, was to be carried on at all without a fellow like the spotty horse, ready to step in at critical moments and take up just the part required of him. Dream Days, by Kenneth Grahame
• You are, I know, a lover of old Allan Quatermain, one who understands and appreciates the views of life and the aspirations that underlie and inform his manifold adventures. Finished, by H. Rider Haggard
• The sick in mind, and, perhaps, in body, are rendered more darkly and hopelessly so by the manifold reflection of their disease, mirrored back from all quarters in the deportment of those about them; they are compelled to inhale the poison of their own breath, in infinite repetition. The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Nearer and round about her, the manifold flowers of the garden Poured out their souls in odors, that were their prayers and confessions The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• He sat till very late, tired out but too happy to move, and when at last he went to bed he was wide awake; he listened to the manifold noise of Paris. Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham
• My aim is to search out the manifold experience that it offers, wringing from each moment what of emotion it presents. Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham
• Was it worth while for that to give up one's youth, and the gaiety of life, and the manifold chances of being? Of Human Bondage, by Somerset Maugham
• I'm sitting with my side to her, striking off some manifold copies of a copper-mine proposition for a nice old man from Tonopah. Roads of Destiny, by O. Henry
• The regret we have for our childhood is not wholly justifiable: so much a man may lay down without fear of public ribaldry; for although we shake our heads over the change, we are not unconscious of the manifold advantages of our new state. Virginibus Puerisque, by Robert Louis Stevenson
• These are the things for which I have to forgive my old cattle-man his manifold shortcomings; they are heroic - so are the shortcomings, to be sure. Vailima Letters, by Robert Louis Stevenson
• And our Henry improved the occasion with something of a snuffle, assuring his prisoner that God had fought against the French on account of their manifold sins and transgressions. Familiar Studies of Men & Books, by Robert Louis Stevenson
• In the year 1863, soon after the birth of their first son, they moved into a cottage at Claygate near Esher; and about this time, under manifold troubles both of money and health, I find him writing from abroad: Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin, by Robert Louis Stevenson
• …and I remembered the sale, and the wreck, and Goddedaal, and Nares, and Johnson, and Black Tom, and the troubles of yesterday, and the manifold engagements of the day that was to come.The Wrecker, by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
• Mr Finsbury slept soundly after the manifold fatigues of the day. The Wrong Box, by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
• My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off. Dracula, by Bram Stoker
• My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off. Dracula, by Bram Stoker
• Tom did his humble comrade these various ill turns partly out of native viciousness, and partly because he hated him for his superiorities of physique and pluck, and for his manifold cleverness. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain
• Since all these manifold things could have occurred, we have every right to believe they did occur. What is Man? and other essays, by Mark Twain
• There was an array of fancy articles in the room--a battered, soiled and well-worn array of chipped basins, of toothless combs, of all those manifold untidy trifles which, in their hurry and carelessness, two women will leave scattered about when they undress and wash together amid purely temporary surroundings, the dirty aspect of which has ceased to concern them. Works by Emile Zola: Nana