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voluminous
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    One of the marchers below flipped Mrs. Roberts upside down with his wand; her nightdress fell down to reveal voluminous drawers and she struggled to cover herself up as the crowd below her screeched and hooted with glee.  (source)
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    On the cover was a photograph of an impossibly voluminous bomb cloud.†  (source)
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    She was majestically tall and all but enshrined by a voluminous mane of golden blond hair.†  (source)
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    It took an enormous effort for her to set her voluminous, gelatinous body in motion.†  (source)
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    Voluminously and wittily, and animated by more than a little Anglophobia, Mencken demonstrated that our language began to diverge from the mother tongue almost as soon as the first colonists arrived in North America.†  (source)
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    The room—if such a space can be called a room—was voluminous, as if it could hold the whole of the ocean.†  (source)
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    Into this dimly-lit and dim-featured group May Archer floated like a swan with the sunset on her: she seemed larger, fairer, more voluminously rustling than her husband had ever seen her; and he perceived that the rosiness and rustlingness were the tokens of an extreme and infantile shyness.†  (source)
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    But in Talkeetna, a village south of Denali that is the point of embarkation for most mountaineering expeditions into the Alaska Range, the cabin he was staying in caught fire and burned to rubble, incinerating both his equipment and the voluminous accumulation of notes, poetry, and personal journals that he regarded as his life's work.†  (source)
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    At the pronounced words and the spontaneous echo that voluminously rebounded them, Captain Vere, either thro' stoic self-control or a sort of momentary paralysis induced by emotional shock, stood erectly rigid as a musket in the ship-armorer's rack.†  (source)
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    For since that first meeting she'd begun to dress in more feminine attire— though even this was not "proper," the fabric much less voluminous than the accepted fashions.†  (source)
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    He seemed not to notice or care, but to be protected by their almost supernatural momentum, which Nicolo interpreted as a friendly race to see who could rise faster to the topmost ridge, where the moon would hang voluminously over a noiseless world.†  (source)
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    The visitor was a stout man in cracked, mud-caked hoots and a heavy brown robe of the coarsest roughspun, his features hidden by a cowl, his hands drawn up into voluminous sleeves.†  (source)
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    Within, there was a spacious breadth, and an airy height from floor to roof, now partially filled with smoke and steam, which eddied voluminously upward and formed a mimic cloud-region over their heads.†  (source)
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