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  • He should be wearing voluminous ankle-length culottes and a heavy indigo tunic, which is the traditional uniform, but instead he is wearing jockey shorts.†   (source)
  • Lemry may be gone, but her memory lives on through precise and voluminous workout notes, and Mr. Billings was up to the task of carrying them out to the letter.†   (source)
  • Spiritualism is the craze of the middle classes, the women especially; they gather in darkened rooms and play at table-tilting the way their grandmothers played at whist, or they emit voluminous automatic writings, dictated to them by Mozart or Shakespeare; in which case being dead, thinks Simon, has a remarkably debilitating effect on one's prose style.†   (source)
  • Early each morning, as Moody and the rest of the family chanted their prayers, I retrieved my money and stashed it under my voluminous layers of clothing in case some unforeseen opportunity arose during the day.†   (source)
  • I scanned and rescanned the voluminous documents before me and cleared my throat multiple times.†   (source)
  • In the vest's voluminous pockets were both a film and a digital camera, means of documenting his work for the donors he had to court whenever he returned home.†   (source)
  • I had trouble sitting down at the table because Bertha had made me wear a fashionable gown, and my petticoat was voluminous.†   (source)
  • She was majestically tall and all but enshrined by a voluminous mane of golden blond hair.†   (source)
  • After being corrected and printed, the one thousand five hundred pages reduced themselves to six hundred, yielding a voluminous treatise on the ninetynine names of God and formulas for attaining nirvana through respiratory exercise.†   (source)
  • Down they sank once more into the crunching, thudding, voluminous barrage of bursting antiaircraft shells as Aarfy came creeping back behind Yossarian and jabbed him sharply in the ribs again.†   (source)
  • Mud clung to the bottom of her skirts, causing her to stumble every few feet on the voluminous folds of fabric, but she forced herself to keep moving.†   (source)
  • I ran over to fetch Almaz, who had not left her spot, her voluminous skirts ringed around her like a circus tent, her white gabby wrapped around her head and shoulders, only her eyes showing.†   (source)
  • At home, in his voluminous farm records, he never in his life added up the profit and loss for any year, and perhaps for the reason that there was almost never any profit.†   (source)
  • Robert had sat squeezed between two voluminous women altos with his nose buried in his Montana guidebook while everyone around him boomed "Nearer My God to Thee."†   (source)
  • Beyond, in the main kitchen, the heavyset black woman in the voluminous muumuu was waiting for him.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Upon these masts were white silk mainsails, stretched to taut, voluminous perfection by the onshore breeze.†   (source)
  • Alone in the bathroom, Rafi quietly removed his dirty clothes and lowered himself into the voluminous tub.†   (source)
  • "Just getting something," I say, trying to hide the bucket behind my voluminous skirt.†   (source)
  • It won't benefit the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws are so voluminous that they cannot be read or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.†   (source)
  • 'Then I can assume that if anything ugly happened, your voluminous reportage will find its way to a Senate subcommittee or a pack of congressional watchdogs.†   (source)
  • All the material would eventually find its way into Dina's voluminous files, for she was already preparing for the next round.†   (source)
  • She took a brisk but voluminous drag on her cigarette.†   (source)
  • I am as you know historian of the local chapter of the Sons of the Confederacy and while in the process of writing a fairly lengthy essay on your great-grandfather I examined in detail his truly voluminous correspondence to his family, which includes many letters to your grandmother.†   (source)
  • The first thing she pulls out is a voluminous shawl.†   (source)
  • My mother could imagine Gary Cooper's shoulders gradually filling out the jacket, but she insisted that Bond's do something about the voluminous excesses of the pants, which in the seat area could have accommodated both me and a watermelon.†   (source)
  • 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?"†   (source)
  • Sometimes, when I caught sight of a figure in voluminous draperies swishing through the streets under a blazing sun, or of a face peering through a window or shutter, I felt desperately sorry for them, deprived of the ordinary pleasures of knowing warm sun and cool breeze upon their flesh, of walking out light and free, or of mixing with men and working beside them.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Flashlights were no match for the voluminous blackness of St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • On the cover was a photograph of an impossibly voluminous bomb cloud.†   (source)
  • The man in black shook the voluminous arm of his robe.†   (source)
  • From within their voluminous sleeves, Fadawar's four warriors produced small, hairy goat-hide drums.†   (source)
  • An impish expression overtook her face, and she shook her head, her voluminous curls bouncing.†   (source)
  • I rolled up the cuffs and tried to pull on the pants under the voluminous layers of Kurdish skirts.†   (source)
  • Miss Hastings handed me the voluminous document, and I turned to the appropriate page.†   (source)
  • Then the soldiers swept aside their voluminous cloaks and raised drawn crossbows to their shoulders.†   (source)
  • Colonel Korn hitched up the waist of his loose, voluminous trousers.†   (source)
  • Glaedr walked to the edge of the Crags of Tel'naeir and unfurled his voluminous wings.†   (source)
  • There was Mad-Eye Moody, looking quite as sinister with his bowler hat pulled low over his magical eye as he would have done without it, his gnarled hands clutching a long staff, his body wrapped in a voluminous travelling cloak.†   (source)
  • The pod itself is far too voluminous to be heated, but your lab is a thermally insulated cinder-block room, roughly a cube, located in the farthest corner of the pod for maximum separation.†   (source)
  • A voluminous octagon rose 160 feet at its center, its eight sides finished in chocolate-brown Tennessee marble, cream-colored Siena marble, and apple-red Algerian marble.†   (source)
  • From their height, the city appeared as a series of gaps in the voluminous canopy, islands of calm in a restless ocean.†   (source)
  • Her standard-issue nurse's gown was closed at the neck by a red-and-white enameled cross that was repeated, in cloth, on a white band around her left arm, and the gown fell away voluminously, belted with a sash of the same wrinkled cotton.†   (source)
  • In voluminous correspondence with members of Congress and in his private writings, Adams had not acomplaining or disrespectful word to say about Franklin, nothing of the bitter disdain expressed in letters the year before.†   (source)
  • The man in black lifted his hand skyward, shaking back the voluminous sleeve from a tapered, handsome hand, and brought it down rapidly, index and pinky fingers forked out in the traditional sign of the evil eye.†   (source)
  • In return, Gabriel would be granted complete and total access to France's voluminous files on the thousands of Islamic extremists living within its borders: the watch reports, the e-mail and phone intercepts, the immigration records.†   (source)
  • His base jealousy of me, and his sordid envy of my commission for making a treaty of commerce with Great Britain have stimulatedhim to attempt an assassination upon my character at Philadelphia, of which the world has not yet heard, and of which it cannot hear until the time shall come when many voluminous state papers may be laid before the public, which ought not to be until we are all dead.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Yossarian nodded perfunctorily, and the chaplain's breath quickened in anticipation as he made ready to join his will power with Yossarian's in a prodigious effort to rip away at last the voluminous black folds shrouding the eternal mysteries of existence.†   (source)
  • Arya led the way to the last door on the right, and from within the voluminous sleeve of her cloak, she produced an iron key.†   (source)
  • The van contained a treasure trove of documents and plans, and Wanda was able to tell at a glance that the thick, voluminous files contained items of the highest level of secrecy.†   (source)
  • Although I promised myself not to inflict upon the reader too many of the voluminous jottings I made that summer (it is a tiresome and interruptive device, symptomatic of a flagging imagination), I have made an exception in this particular instance, setting my little memorandum down just as I wrote it as unimpeachable testimony of the way some people talked in 1947, that cradle year of psychoanalysis in postwar America: Girl named Sandra: "My analyst said that my transference problem…†   (source)
  • The question hung fire for some years, the subject of voluminous correspondence.†   (source)
  • His pants flowed voluminous and stripy down to a two-strap shoe.†   (source)
  • She tried to crawl into the narrow crowded closet to nail it down but her voluminous nightgown got her tangled up.†   (source)
  • She entered, and behind her, almost hidden by her voluminous calico skirts, came her twelve-year-old daughter, squirming against her mother's legs.†   (source)
  • Then he could move, and turned to see the tiny gnomelike creature in headrag and voluminous skirts, the worn coffee-colored face staring at him, the match held in one coffee-colored and doll-like hand above her head.†   (source)
  • Gerald knelt beside her, and Scarlett and Suellen took their accustomed places on the opposite side of the table, folding their voluminous petticoats in pads under their knees, so they would ache less from contact with the hard floor.†   (source)
  • …until all of you started and whirled as one and found her watching you from a chair tilted back against the cabin wall—a little dried-up woman not much bigger than a monkey and who might have been any age up to ten thousand years, in faded voluminous skins and an immaculate headrag, her bare coffee-colored feet wrapped around the chair rung like monkeys do, smoking a clay pipe and watching you with eyes like two shoe buttons buried in the myriad wrinkles of her coffee-colored face,…†   (source)
  • Francie saw the Tynmore girls standing together in their doorway, their gray hair in crimpers, and ruffled, starched nightgowns showing under their voluminous wrappers.†   (source)
  • He stood silently watching his uncle put on his broad hat and his voluminous cloak.†   (source)
  • He read voluminously all spring, the beginning of his eighteenth year: "The Gentleman from Indiana,"†   (source)
  • Her luggage was there and was not voluminous; Mrs. Touchett sat down a moment with her eyes upon it.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • He presented his idols diffidently, but he expanded in Carol's bookishness, in Miss Sherwin's voluminous praise, in Kennicott's tolerance of any one who amused his wife.†   (source)
  • His tall form, as though robbed of its substance, hovered noiselessly over invisible things with stooping and indefinite movements; his voice, heard in that remoteness where he could be glimpsed mysteriously busy with immaterial cares, was no longer incisive, seemed to roll voluminous and grave—mellowed by distance.†   (source)
  • Armand Moncharmin wrote such voluminous Memoirs during the fairly long period of his co-management that we may well ask if he ever found time to attend to the affairs of the Opera otherwise than by telling what went on there.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Heit turned to a coat-room in one corner of the musty old room and extracted a large, soft-brimmed, straw hat, the downward curving edges of which seemed to heighten the really bland and yet ogreish effect of his protruding eyes and voluminous whiskers, and having thus equipped himself, said: "I'm just going in the sheriff's office a minute, Earl.†   (source)
  • Opposite the spot to which he had brought her was such a general confluence, and the river was proportionately voluminous and deep.†   (source)
  • Across from the hotel two carabinieri, grotesque in swaddling capes and harlequin hats, swung voluminously from this side and that, like mains'ls coming about, and watching them she thought of the guards' officer who had stared at her so intensely at lunch.†   (source)
  • The wind of the punkahs eddied down on the heads, on the dark-faced natives wound about in voluminous draperies, on the Europeans sitting together very hot and in drill suits that seemed to fit them as close as their skins, and holding their round pith hats on their knees; while gliding along the walls the court peons, buttoned tight in long white coats, flitted rapidly to and fro, running on bare toes, red-sashed, red turban on head, as noiseless as ghosts, and on the alert like so…†   (source)
  • Mrs. Carey took several minutes to put on her bonnet, during which the Vicar, in a voluminous cloak, stood in the hall with just such an expression on his face as would have become an early Christian about to be led into the arena.†   (source)
  • His cracked, kindly voice went well with the large spectacles and the impression of a voluminous keenness that he gave.†   (source)
  • The cab went past a loud fountain splashing in a voluminous shadow, turned into an alley so curved that the buildings were warped and strained following it, bumped and rattled over cobblestones, and stopped with a jerk where two sentry boxes were bright against a wall of green damp.†   (source)
  • The spires of churches, numerous, scattered haphazard, uprose like beacons on a maze of shoals without a channel; the driving rain mingled with the falling dusk of a winter's evening; and the booming of a big clock on a tower, striking the hour, rolled past in voluminous, austere bursts of sound, with a shrill vibrating cry at the core.†   (source)
  • The clouds have broken and the heavens burn To hollow highways, paved with gravelled light The churning of the waves about the stern Rises to one voluminous nocturne, ….†   (source)
  • Going upstairs to Mrs. Jellyby's room (the children were all screaming in the kitchen, and there was no servant to be seen), we found that lady in the midst of a voluminous correspondence, opening, reading, and sorting letters, with a great accumulation of torn covers on the floor.†   (source)
  • At half-past six the carriage stopped at the station; my uncle's numerous packages, his voluminous IMPEDIMENTA, were unloaded, removed, labelled, weighed, put into the luggage vans, and at seven we were seated face to face in our compartment.†   (source)
  • In person, Mrs General, including her skirts which had much to do with it, was of a dignified and imposing appearance; ample, rustling, gravely voluminous; always upright behind the proprieties.†   (source)
  • "Don't, my chiel," whispered a buxom staylace dealer in voluminous petticoats, who sat near the woman; "yer good man don't know what he's saying."†   (source)
  • In these voluminous notes Toll suggested another scheme, totally different from Armfeldt's or Pfuel's plan of campaign.†   (source)
  • It borrowed its splendor chiefly from the shining shoulders and profuse jewels of the women, and from the voluminous elegance of their dresses.†   (source)
  • The opening of the red handkerchief had disclosed a superannuated "Keepsake" and six or seven numbers of a "Portrait Gallery," in royal octavo; and the emphatic request to look referred to a portrait of George the Fourth in all the majesty of his depressed cranium and voluminous neckcloth.†   (source)
  • The Prime Minister's lady had just squeezed herself into her sedan, and her daughter, the charming Ida, had put on her calash and clogs; when the English party came out, the boy yawning drearily, the Major taking great pains in keeping the shawl over Mrs. Osborne's head, and Mr. Sedley looking grand, with a crush opera-hat on one side of his head and his hand in the stomach of a voluminous white waistcoat.†   (source)
  • Of such assurances, however, he had already a voluminous collection, and it would not have been worth his while to forsake a fruitful avocation merely to hear Mrs. Penniman say, for the thousandth time, that she had made his cause her own.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN HARVEST TIME For a year Jo and her Professor worked and waited, hoped and loved, met occasionally, and wrote such voluminous letters that the rise in the price of paper was accounted for, Laurie said.†   (source)
  • In the way of furniture, there is a stove with a voluminous funnel; an old pine desk with a three-legged stool beside it; two or three wooden-bottom chairs, exceedingly decrepit and infirm; and—not to forget the library—on some shelves, a score or two of volumes of the Acts of Congress, and a bulky Digest of the Revenue laws.†   (source)
  • Our author is voluminous; he continues to write and publish with as much praiseworthy and indefatigable prolixity as if his efforts were crowned with the brilliant success that so justly attends those of Eugene Sue.†   (source)
  • But this treating servants as if they were exotic flowers, or china vases, is really ridiculous," said Marie, as she plunged languidly into the depths of a voluminous and pillowy lounge, and drew towards her an elegant cut-glass vinaigrette.†   (source)
  • "Well, Blacas, what think you of this?" inquired the king triumphantly, and pausing for a moment from the voluminous scholiast before him.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Her attire, voluminous and delicate, bristling with elegance, had the look of shimmering plumage, and her attitudes were as light and sudden as those of a creature who perched upon twigs.†   (source)
  • His notes already made a formidable range of volumes, but the crowning task would be to condense these voluminous still-accumulating results and bring them, like the earlier vintage of Hippocratic books, to fit a little shelf.†   (source)
  • His coat was of light-weight cloth with voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons.†   (source)
  • He had seen Miss Vincy above his horizon almost as long as it had taken Mr. Casaubon to become engaged and married: but this learned gentleman was possessed of a fortune; he had assembled his voluminous notes, and had made that sort of reputation which precedes performance,—often the larger part of a man's fame.†   (source)
  • "Who and what are you?" demanded Villefort, turning over a pile of papers, containing information relative to the prisoner, that a police agent had given to him on his entry, and that, already, in an hour's time, had swelled to voluminous proportions, thanks to the corrupt espionage of which "the accused" is always made the victim.†   (source)
  • She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand folds and large sleeves which, starting from the neck, fell to her feet.†   (source)
  • Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead of such a work, how proudly would she have produced the book, and told its name; though the chances must be against her being occupied by any part of that voluminous publication, of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person of taste: the substance of its papers so often consisting in the statement of improbable circumstances, unnatural characters, and topics of conversation which…†   (source)
  • She got up, dusting her voluminous skirts.†   (source)
  • I tried to push up the voluminous sleeve, failed, and settled for pulling the neck of the shirt off my shoulder to display my vaccination scar.†   (source)
  • Hampered by his voluminous soutane, the priest tripped and fell, water and mud flying in spatters all around him.†   (source)
  • It was the first time I had seen Geilie Duncan en deshabille; customarily she wore the severe and voluminous gowns, buttoned high at the neck, that were suitable to the wife of a fiscal.†   (source)
  • We were mounted and moving before I had even tucked the voluminous skirts around my legs, and the material billowed around me like a settling parachute.†   (source)
  • She leaned on a hawthorn stick, enveloped in garments she must have worn twenty years before, now much too voluminous for the shrunken frame inside them.†   (source)
  • The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast—a serpent armed With mortal sting.†   (source)
  • It has been frequently remarked, with great propriety, that a voluminous code of laws is one of the inconveniences necessarily connected with the advantages of a free government.†   (source)
  • Matters of a much more extraordinary kind are to be the subject of this history, or I should grossly mis-spend my time in writing so voluminous a work; and you, my sagacious friend, might with equal profit and pleasure travel through some pages which certain droll authors have been facetiously pleased to call The History of England.†   (source)
  • What indeed are all the repealing, explaining, and amending laws, which fill and disgrace our voluminous codes, but so many monuments of deficient wisdom; so many impeachments exhibited by each succeeding against each preceding session; so many admonitions to the people, of the value of those aids which may be expected from a well-constituted senate?†   (source)
  • And this suspicion, to be honest, arises, as is generally the case, from our own wicked heart; for we have, ourselves, been very often most horridly given to jumping, as we have run through the pages of voluminous historians.†   (source)
  • It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow.†   (source)
  • …this our work, a history, and not a life; nor an apology for a life, as is more in fashion; yet we intend in it rather to pursue the method of those writers, who profess to disclose the revolutions of countries, than to imitate the painful and voluminous historian, who, to preserve the regularity of his series, thinks himself obliged to fill up as much paper with the detail of months and years in which nothing remarkable happened, as he employs upon those notable aeras when the…†   (source)
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