He defends the style, the voluminousness, and the contents of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
Each generation taught the older one a lesson in sheer voluminousness. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
The great achievement of The Bridge is the sheer voluminousness of its coverage. From Wordnik.com. [The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick] Reference
My only fear is that there is perhaps a little too much of the novel in it, so that some of the dialogue has a Shavian voluminousness.34. From Wordnik.com. [A Life in Letters] Reference
It is safe to say the display of aquatic life made here, could rival the greatest permanent aquaria in existence; not only as to their voluminousness, but the immense variety of their specimens. From Wordnik.com. [By Water to the Columbian Exposition] Reference
It may, if it possesses the luxury of voluminousness or the arrogance of superficiality, attempt to place nearly equal emphasis upon each of these aspects, but there is no proof that a general, inclusive history is any more meaningful than a specialized one. From Wordnik.com. [Another Roadside Attraction]
Whether as a work of reference, a record of current scientific development, or as an organ and exponent of our inventors, it stands alone for the general ability of its conduct, the voluminousness and variety of its contents, the exactitude and extent of its knowledge, and the correctness of its information. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
The voluminousness of his Writings is understated there. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1] Reference
A certain voluminousness is indispensable to the support of such slow measures. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference
The truth is, literary genius has no rule either of voluminousness or of the opposite. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
If voluminousness alone made a man a great writer, we should have to canonize Lord Lytton. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Letters] Reference
Their voluminousness of wristband, with an air of excessive frankness, should betray them at once. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5] Reference
Great authors often overlay and almost smother their own fame by the voluminousness of their writings. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference
The new volumes of Letters have carried me back to Carlyle, who has always rather repelled me by his noisy voluminousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance] Reference
His volubility in speech had the same origin as his voluminousness and obscurity in literature -- a kind of headlong humility. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning] Reference
The voluminousness of his treatises, their prolixity, their repetitions, and their defects of styles have all operated to prevent men studying him. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11] Reference
This celebrated document consisted of twelve articles and contained five thousand ideographs, so that nothing was wanting in the matter of voluminousness. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
Hanley Black surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of antediluvian, New-England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Kanaka Surf] Reference
Abstract concepts, such as elasticity, voluminousness, disconnectedness, are salient aspects of our concrete experiences which we find it useful to single out. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
He seems never to have once deviated from his design nor to have ever been perplexed by embarrassments in the course of his undertaking, notwithstanding the voluminousness of its nature. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century] Reference
When the graphophone repeats a Beethoven symphony, the voluminousness of the orchestra is reduced to a thin feeble surface sound, and no one would accept this product of the disk and the diaphragm as a full substitute for the performance of the real orchestra. From Wordnik.com. [The Photoplay A Psychological Study] Reference
Gerald the Welshman was certainly one of the most remarkable men of letters that the Middle Ages produced -- remarkable not merely for the great range of his knowledge, or the voluminousness of his writings, but for the originality of his views and variety of his interests. From Wordnik.com. [Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures] Reference
In drawing their subjects from the histories of more modern courts than those of Rome, Greece, or Egypt they endeavored to make their “historical” romances of passion more lifelike than the heroic romances, and while they avoided the extravagances, they also shunned the voluminousness of the romans a longue haleine. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood]
It is not of extraordinary voluminousness, for though swollen in Wilkin's edition by abundant editorial matter, it fills but three of the well-known volumes of Bohn's series, and, printed by itself, it might not much exceed two ordinary library octavos; but in character and interest it yields to the work of no other English prose writer. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
I blush at my voluminousness. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellanea] Reference
From their voluminousness, the. From Wordnik.com. [Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Of the snake's adamantine voluminousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2] Reference
Of the snake’s adamantine voluminousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
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