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large in volume- The man in black shook the voluminous arm of his robe.Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
- His pants flowed voluminous and stripy down to a two-strap shoe.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- A leather strip encircled her brow, restraining her voluminous black hair, which tumbled behind her shoulders in a lustrous cascade.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- Her luggage was there and was not voluminous; Mrs. Touchett sat down a moment with her eyes upon it.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- From somewhere in the voluminous folds of his white overblouse, Daddy had produced a wooden kitchen match.Stephen King -- The Shining
- Beyond, in the main kitchen, the heavyset black woman in the voluminous muumuu was waiting for him.Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
- "Just getting something," I say, trying to hide the bucket behind my voluminous skirt.Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble
- It took an enormous effort for her to set her voluminous, gelatinous body in motion.Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
- The Spaniard turning his back, with his voluminous coat-tails sailing, and his feet off the ground, floating bird-like up into the pin-point distance.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- The question hung fire for some years, the subject of voluminous correspondence.Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- She was majestically tall and all but enshrined by a voluminous mane of golden blond hair.Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
- Opposite the spot to which he had brought her was such a general confluence, and the river was proportionately voluminous and deep.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- It borrowed its splendor chiefly from the shining shoulders and profuse jewels of the women, and from the voluminous elegance of their dresses.Henry James -- The American
- In these voluminous notes Toll suggested another scheme, totally different from Armfeldt's or Pfuel's plan of campaign.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- A fragrant favorite involved saving up intestinal gas, explosively voluminous thanks to chronic dysentery, prior to tenko.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- His coat was of light-weight cloth with voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- She took a brisk but voluminous drag on her cigarette.J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
- She looked at me on the pole and in a voluminous voice—powerful, masculine, and incredibly loud—she bellowed, "What'ch you doin' up on that pole, man?"Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- From their height, the city appeared as a series of gaps in the voluminous canopy, islands of calm in a restless ocean.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- The first thing she pulls out is a voluminous shawl.William Gibson -- The Miracle Worker
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