It commands a view of mingled woodland and rolling plain, diversified by river and lake, extending to a horizon so faint and far away as to suggest the idea of illimitable space. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie to the Rescue] Reference
Exterminable seems to be used here in the sense of 'illimitable' (N. E. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3] Reference
There the plains stretched away to the horizon in illimitable extent. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
Neither did it look so vast and illimitable as on the previous night. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
To what an illimitable enterprise does the vastness of our plans lead us!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Then on and on, through space illimitable, but always nearer the infinite. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
In the silent, motionless darkness it was like a path into illimitable space. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Arrived at Vancouver city, a city of illimitable ambition and bright prospects. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
Their voices were beautiful -- with such illimitable power, yet as sweet as treacle. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
You stand on the cellar stairs, and below is a dark waste of waters, of illimitable extent. From Wordnik.com. [Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles] Reference
They travelled over a smooth plain which seemed to stretch to illimitable distances all around. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian] Reference
He had visualized his dead body enclosed in a rocket flying off into the illimitable maw of space. From Wordnik.com. [The Jameson Satellite] Reference
We cannot even in imagination conceive, either as reality or as fancy, the illimitable puissance of a. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
Rather, an illimitable ocean of it spread over land and sea, in which the very mountain-tops do blink. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
From considerations like these we get a dim conception of the almost illimitable extent of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
The more he comes to know, the wider will open before him the illimitable realm of what is yet to be known. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
Like a huge meteor it flashed into the solar system from another chain of planets far out in the illimitable. From Wordnik.com. [The Jameson Satellite] Reference
Father of unbounded mercy, in his illimitable love, would again reveal himself in breaking the bread of life. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
Infinitesimal though its dimensions were it gave a sense of illimitable force and power, a prodigious energy. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
We are not alone in our work; we have omnipotence and illimitable wisdom on our side, forwarding our efforts. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Friends] Reference
Along the horizon the clouds were white-edged, and seemed to open and lead away into illimitable distances of vapor. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
Sara was conscious of being shot violently across the hall, and then everything went out in illimitable black darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
As we proceeded across the illimitable plain a strong head-wind began to blow, increasing in strength as the day wore on. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
The field to be covered by the wants of readers, and the inquiries that he is expected to answer, are literally illimitable. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
Charles Martin -- a son of the distinguished painter of Biblical catastrophes, of boundless halls, and illimitable space, John. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
These various elements are like the notes of the scale in music, susceptible of combinations that seem illimitable in variety. From Wordnik.com. [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference
And all that day, while incandescent heat tried to boil illimitable waters, the strange fowl waddled on with her noxious brood. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Such are the thoughts awakened by the music of this poet's song, which haunts one with a sense of the mystery of the illimitable. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
Indeed, in epithets suggesting illimitable vistas, inexpressible sorrows, and dim-remembered joys, lies half the charm of poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Perugino's greatest gift to Art was this power of rendering the magic of the sun-warmed air and the sense of illimitable distance. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
How infinitely grander -- how illimitable in its vistas -- the subject becomes when thus treated by a great poet we all must feel. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
A mother's sympathy and affection alone bind together the words of her song in illimitable praises -- a thousand thousand thousands. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
There was an artificial waterfall on a level with the upper entrance and the back cloth conveyed the impression of an illimitable vista. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
It is this simplicity, this love of One who is omnipotent, uncreate, illimitable, eternal, that makes me reverence Him, adore Him, live for. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to His Friends] Reference
"I think you have stated the case about as it is," said he, "if, indeed, this rate of speed does not carry us entirely beyond the earth's attraction, out into illimitable space.". From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
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