Noun : the vastitude of his love for all humankind. ,the ocean vastitude. From Dictionary.com.
I was confronted with the vastitude of the universe at once, without the ingratiating introduction of the fairy tale. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
He did not know that it was a mere fractional part of the great island of Ysabel, that was again one island of a thousand, many of them greater, that composed the Solomon Islands that men marked on charts as a group of specks in the vastitude of the far-western South Pacific. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 1] Reference
No limit to this vastitude has ever been assigned. From Wordnik.com. [Four-Dimensional Vistas] Reference
Death-sealed the land lay in its silent vastitude, in its despairful desolation. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
"Ah," Walter Merritt Emory murmured, with a vastitude of confidence and assurance. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
And I, for one, and for still other reasons, congratulate myself upon the vastitude of my good fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
Islands that men marked on charts as a group of specks in the vastitude of the far-western South Pacific. From Wordnik.com. [Jerry of the Islands] Reference
There was a sense of deathlike passivity in the land, of overwhelming vastitude, of unconquerable loneliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
To three of the short poems he has given a sense of epic vastitude, and to two of them he has given a tantalizing mysticism. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacket (Star-Rover)] Reference
The porter led the way from the vastitude of a corridor under the street and through vast empty rooms and up a stairway and down. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Oh, the joy that accompanied me everywhere, finding still Him who had united me to Himself, in His own immensity and boundless vastitude!. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Madame Guyon] Reference
Beyond this, there was no ray in all the vastitude of night that surrounded me; save that, far in the North, that soft, mist-like glow still shone. From Wordnik.com. [The House on the Borderland: Chapter 18] Reference
And I could not but thrill as I glimpsed the vastitude of spirit that inhabited these frail, perishing carcasses of usthe three incorrigibles of solitary. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 20] Reference
And I could not but thrill as I glimpsed the vastitude of spirit that inhabited these frail, perishing carcasses of us -- the three incorrigibles of solitary. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacket (Star-Rover)] Reference
On all other sides the flat-lands stretched out seeming to have no end, suggesting to the fancy that they were kin in vastitude to the clear expanse of the sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Bells of San Juan] Reference
I only wish that the screen, or whatever they call it, between the choir and nave, could be thrown down, so as to give us leave to take in the whole vastitude at once. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference
Ysabel, that was again one island of a thousand, many of them greater, that composed the Solomon Islands that men marked on charts as a group of specks in the vastitude of the far-western South. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 1] Reference
The Elsinore is truly the ship of souls, the world in miniature; and, because she is such a small world, cleaving this vastitude of ocean as our larger world cleaves space, the strange juxtapositions that continually occur are startling. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 26] Reference
Silence, all vastitude and height and depth and time and direction are swallowed up: relation therein could have no meaning but for the speck of my fleeting consciousness, -- atom of terror pulsating alone through atomless, soundless, nameless, illimitable potentiality. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories] Reference
The triviality and irrationality of dreams are sufficiently accounted for if the dream state is thought of as the meeting place of two conditions of consciousness: the foam and flotsam "of perilous seas in faëry lands forlorn," whose vastitude, whose hidden life, and rich argosies of experience, can only be inferred from the fret of the tide on their nether shore -- the tired brain in sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Four-Dimensional Vistas] Reference
The scientific men of the most profound intellectual power and the most brilliant original genius, the supreme heads of chemistry, dynamics and mathematics, have applied to the phenomena of the material creation modes of observation and instruments of reasoning before whose compelling efficacy the whole frowning vastitude of the outer universe melts into ideal points of force and forms of law. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
Embark for the vastitude, O Mind. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning: How to Know Him] Reference
A revelation of vastitude may have. From Wordnik.com. [Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers] Reference
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