To be confronted with such an immensity was an astonishment that virtually no one was prepared for. From Wordnik.com. [The Chosen Peoples] Reference
"immensity" may give adequate idea of the audience present. From Wordnik.com. [T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him] Reference
On the sea the thrashing hills of green water suggested a kind of immensity and terror, but not the immensity of the poet’s heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
So what will be the legacy of a spill of this immensity?. From Wordnik.com. [Gulf Oil Spill: Rick Steiner Got BP Disaster Right From The Beginning, Warns Crisis Is Far From Over] Reference
The immensity of the mission we have over here is apparent. From Wordnik.com. [From the Twin Towers to Fallujah] Reference
The novelty, the immensity of the proposition, stunned Dave. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
He was, withal, very clever, and had an immensity of mother-wit. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Cattle-breeders] Reference
O Divine Action, Thou seemest to have revealed to me Thy immensity. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
Matthew Breen's face and body were lost in sheer immensity above them. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
The immensity of his retribution swept over him in an overwhelming flood. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
"It is true," he said, "that Paris is good to us in its confused immensity.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He dreaded heights, and the immensity of the city itself was somehow appalling. From Wordnik.com. [This Crowded Earth] Reference
It took her nearly an hour, I believe, to explain the immensity of my presumption. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
The immensity of the task, the insufficience of the means stand in striking contrast. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
Gustave Moynier, and you will be really struck by the immensity of the work performed. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
This spectacle of immensity in every country in the world produces the wildest illusions. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He who has never known the use of eyes cannot fully understand the immensity of the loss of sight. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom, Truth and Beauty] Reference
Spirit whose presence filled immensity, and who was likened to no living thing, nor fashion of a man. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
There are times, quite often, when grief — in all its immensity — pulls me down and holds me in place. From Wordnik.com. [December 15, 2012] Reference
In this immensity, you did not feel in danger, just a surrender to how insignificant this vastness made you. From Wordnik.com. [What You Catch a Glimpse of, Forget As Soon] Reference
His eyes grew larger and larger, till they seemed to fill all space -- till I became lost in their immensity. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
All the usual explanations of the impact of Diana's death don't fully account for the immensity of the response. From Wordnik.com. [Genuflect Journalism] Reference
Many of us fail to appreciate the frequency or immensity of its occurrence unless or until it hits close to home. From Wordnik.com. [Vicki B. Escarra: Why The House Child Nutrition Bill Is Better For Children] Reference
I stood, gazing with fear and trembling into the immensity of this dark chasm into which to leap meant certain death. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctification] Reference
The big books on nerves are discouraging and forbidding by their immensity and labyrinth of scientific technical terms. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
So, suddenly, to understand the immensity of the loss ... all the people I'd read about, they'd vanished, just like that. From Wordnik.com. [David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair'] Reference
Amid the manifold duties and emergencies of the last few days she had hardly had time to realize the immensity of her loss. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
"Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets," she says. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Our Religion] Reference
"Love's Great Ocean," she writes in the album, is a song where "I'm using the ocean as a metaphor for the immensity of love.". From Wordnik.com. [Kd Lang, &Quot;Invincible Summer&Quot;] Reference
That may seem small, but the immensity of the oceans means the amount of heat required to warm them even a little is enormous. From Wordnik.com. [Which of These Is Not Causing Global Warming Today?] Reference
Then only will the awful grandeur and immensity of this monumental architecture of nature begin to dawn upon the understanding. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
A battleship may be gigantic on some terms of reference, but in the immensity of the galaxy it is microscopically infinitesimal. From Wordnik.com. [The Misplaced Battleship] Reference
Astronomers tell us that there are in existence millions of stars, and suns, flooding immensity and space with their light and heat. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
Steam has destroyed for us the awful majesty of distance, and we can never realise the immensity of this "great Sea" to the ancients. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
He reached the end of the walkway and paused, a little stunned, staring at the incredible immensity of the city spread out before him. From Wordnik.com. [Starman's Quest] Reference
But if the power of Haroun al Raschid were bounded by the immensity of fate, yet he did all he could to fulfil the hope he had raised in. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
The stacked shelves are stand close to see around the corner, and too tall to see the top, but there is a sense of immensity, endlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Picture Dreams] Reference
All the plains were thickly strewn with black bowlders of sizes ranging from immensity to those applicable to building and paving purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule An account of a journey made on mule back in Honduras, C.A. in August, 1891] Reference
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