All 4 Uses of
horde
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- A horde of heresies fleeing with mitres awry: Photius and the brood of mockers of whom Mulligan was one, and Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ's terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.†
Chpt 1horde = a large number
- Then from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with flayers' knives, running, scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat.†
Chpt 3 *
- Ay, they drove out the peasants in hordes.†
Chpt 12hordes = large numbers
- Laboursaving apparatuses, supplanters, bugbears, manufactured monsters for mutual murder, hideous hobgoblins produced by a horde of capitalistic lusts upon our prostituted labour.†
Chpt 15horde = a large number
Definition:
a very large number -- typically of people, animals, or insects on the move