There ain't above three or four villages altogether, but there may be two or three hundred little plantations scattered about, some big and some little.
In the spring we shall have an army big enough to eat them up.
I was afraid last night it was going to be a big gale, but I do not think it is blowing so hard now as it was in the night.
But in the long run I am not sure that we shall win, for they can go on puttingbig armies into the field, while some day we must get used up.
We will keep on adding wood as fast as it burns down, so as to get a great pile of embers, and keep two or three good big logs burning all night.
There's a big wood about a mile away, and you can turn him in there.
Here he developed an independence of mind and a fearlessness of opinion which is rarely to be found in the atmosphere of a big public school.
The Home Office abused its powers shamelessly, and by the votes of its functionaries, and of those who hoped to receive its favours, it could always secure a big majority for the Government of the moment.
I march on to a very, very, very big door, and there on the steps leading up stands my Captain.
It was a bright day for the farm when Teddy was brought down in a blanket and put in the big easy-chair by the fire.
I'll get my big stick out and give you a thrashing before I've done with you.
He'll go for a drummer-boy as soon as he's big enough, and I'll go with him!
Here a big rosy-cheeked apple was produced hastily out of the other pocket, and presented as a peace offering.
Teddy shook hands with the old lady and the young one, and then seated himself in the big chair opposite Mrs. Green.
I feel I have very bigthoughts to-night, mother, and I get so crowded thinking.
While we were waiting to start we saw flights of aeroplanes like birds chasing each other through the air, and a big airship was slowly hovering about low down on the horizon.
This necessitates the training and laying of the big guns to fire the small guns inside them, and gives practice to the gun layers and trainers without wasting the large shells and charges, which cost a considerable amount of money.
Just at the mouth of the harbour we were confronted by a big bar which—as the tide was running the same way as the river, i.
By this time the sea was very big for a small steamboat, and was almost dead on the beam.
I found it a very different proposition to the big ship to which I had been accustomed.
The channel surrounding the island is not navigable all the way for big ships, but small ones can quite easily go right round it.
Half an hour later a Belgian steamer, a big two-funnelled, cross-channel boat, came alongside.
At the call we all “fall in” by terms in the big hall which is called the quarter-deck.
Sub-calibre firing is done by shipping a small gun (which fires a shell filled with salt) inside the bore of the big turret and battery guns.
He's a big one and you'll have to help us catch him!
He peeked through the slats at the big room and smiled and said some nice things about how pretty the room looked, till they all got real sociable with him.
He did not dream that the Robin had made a big mistake when he invited him.
So she hurried up and lit it and stepped to the door and gave it a great big swing.
At the last line everybody was just about to lift their glasses and give a great big cheer for the poem, when all at once they saw by Jack Rabbit's face that something was wrong.
In one of these there lived a 'Coon, in another a 'Possum and in the third a Big Black Crow.
And just then Mr. Squirrel came with his trunk, and Mr. Robin with his satchel and a hand bag, and Mr. Turtle with his things in a big sack.
He had a good fire built between some stones and a big kettle full of brown stuff, which he was stirring with a long stick.
I glanced at the big building; it reminded me of a convent.
There was no semblance of reproach in her pure little face, no question in her big brown eyes.
Often he went out without me, but as soon as I was free from my work I went in search of him, fastening the ribbons of my big straw hat as I ran over hill and dale.
Another sister arrived, turned a big key in a lock twice, and drew a bolt.
Look at this fine, big cell, and you will be almost alone here.
She had a terrifying appearance, the old Mariette, with her eyes that flashed angrily, her threatening jaw, and her big clenched fists.
She was small and delicate; she hadbig brown eyes.
I could see it proceeded from a big man in a big nightcap, leaning from a one-pair window; and as I was not yet abreast of his house, I judged it was more wise to answer.
Anything is a big word, and his use of it brought me for a moment to a stand.
In the midst was the big naked body, soiled with blood.
An old hunks with a red face and a big head, and got up like a Quaker?
And some of them, it was poor sight they had; they couldn't see the big rift in the walls, when Father M'Fadden pointed it out to them.
A big woman with great braids of yellow hair sat in the shade of the underbrush.
During the coldest months these were taken to town to haul ice from the river to the big store houses, and so were unavailable.
When she sat in the big living room with needle and thread, Beth sat beside her sewing diligently at doll clothes, or cutting fantastic shapes out of paper.
Under that big locust tree on the bank, we'll build a palace.
Eliza viewed herself in the big mirror and smiled.
She's a little lady now and I hope she'll be a big lady by and by.
That big one is Jimmy--" "They are cannibals, and that big one is the chief.
She'll be as big a fool as you are about posies an' sich like.
It was the same big old affair of mahogany on which Sam Houston had placed her when Prince had run away--five years before.
His mouth was as big and firm and tender as Eliza's own.
That is how Finn kept his children for the Big Young Hero of the Ship, and how Bran was found.
Then Finn went away with the family of the Big Young Hero and with everything which he and his men took out of the Castle to the fine house of the Big Young Hero.
The Big Young Hero met him coming, and when he saw his children he went on his two knees to Finn, and said, "What now is thy reward?
At the same time he told him that yesterday a Big Young Hero left yonder haven in his ship, and that he wanted to follow the Hero to the place in which he now was.
Thialfi crouched down again, trembling, as he saw the big man bend swiftly to examine the injured leg.
The Big Young Hero said that he would get that and a great deal more if he would ask it.
Nevertheless, he does not stir, but delays and waits so long that the giant came suddenly, bringing with him the knights; and hanging from his neck he carried a big square stake with a pointed end, and with this he frequently spurred them on.
They took their way up to the house; and when they were nearing it they saw the Big Young Hero coming to meet them.
It's a whacking big pike, that I know," cried Tom.
Now and then a big fellow like Barber would try and get a kick at it; but immediately he was met by a dozen sharp-moving toes, which struck away so desperately that he could never get a fair kick.
It will astonish every one so much to see you come out with a great big kite, which, I doubt not, will beat all the others.
There was a picture of a big ugly boy daubed in the commonest ochre, and bearing evident marks of its toy-shop origin, though Tommy Bouldon and others declared that they recognised in it a strong likeness to Blackall himself.
Blackall alone might have been managed; but several big fellows had united with him, and had taken it into their heads that they should like to introduce fagging.
The big fellows were astonished when they saw how and by whom they had been defeated.
Blackall's look of horror showed that he fully believed that he had been seized by a big baboon, or some monster who might strangle him.
There were twenty people on a side, big and little; but the shorter ones had decidedly the advantage, and ran away with the ball whenever they got up to it, driving it before them before any of the opposite party could overtake them.
The big hollow square was a noble ground, of level greensward, perhaps a mile square, hedged about by one of those beautiful dense woods.
He was as refreshing as the big stein of good Münchener beer which we, with thousands of others, were making disappear.
This terrible sight made the lump of a big empty something harder to swallow, as we swung round so steadily but surely from our slip, out into the deeper water.
On this same trip we visited the Monument which was raised in commemoration of the big fire, and is near London Bridge.
Practically every bigbridge throughout the world has been built on that principle.
Is it--Oh, it is one of the boats--it is the big dredge!
Mary would go in the bog, walkin' on the big tufts of rushes.
Then add up his memoranda of time made by the big dredge; and also the daily record of the two little dredges up at the laterals.
That big gray power-boat is one of our own company's launches.
A big white launch is just coming up the canal, with two passengers aboard.
The laborers live on a big boat called the quarter-boat.
Suppose you take him for a walk, down to the big ditch.
Poor bewildered Empress glared at the big bird, and sidled, back erect, wrathfully sissing, under a chair.
Radiating from this big ditch, they cut a whole family of little ditches, called laterals.
You call the foreman and tell him to get up steam on the big launch, Hallowell.
Ned settled back in his big chair with a sigh of relief.
Seems to me I never saw a boy look as beat out as he does, ever since thatbig cave-in on the canal last week.
This was done, and reported also to the officer of the day, and the next day after the reports were made we were given cabbage for dinner, and every man founds big worms in his plate of cabbage.
They claimed to have some big guns posted back in the mountain.
At night great crowds could be seen, each one in a boat, and carrying a big torch.
The women wear big legged trousers, which only reach down to the knees.
From the oldest man down to little boys, they all carry the bolo or a big knife.
Every one carries something to eat, a big bottle full of beno (a native beverage) and a bottle of whiskey.
On getting very close to shore an old priest was seen on the dock waving a big white flag, which he continued to wave until we landed.
The morning of the 26th, about four o'clock, I saw from my post, where I had been all night, a big fire in the direction of Malabon.
For, having frequently considered my person, as revealed in my mother's big Sunday mirror, I thought that she could very well.
Most of them, indeed, accepted the quiet greasing of the palm, and called off their men to some distant place during the night of a big run.
Or rather grandfather and I went steadily but slowly on our pony, while beside us, sometimes galloping a bit, anon trotting, camebig Mr. Richard Poole on his black horse.
Jen was pleased, though for a while she did not allow it to be seen, and her only repentance was taking up the big empty goblet without being asked and going to the still-room to refill it.
But that might only be the effect of the night, the stillness, and the heavy covert of great woods which lay like a big green blanket all about us, and tossed every sound back to us like a wall at ball-play.
I had a flask of milk in my pouch--the big one in the skirt of the coat that I always wore when taking a walk in the General's plantations.
He was a wonderful horseman as a boy, and when he came to the market alone he rode a big black horse of which even the head ostler stood in awe in the yard of the King's Arms.
He was standing right opposite the school in the big door of the Eden Valley Mill.
The night after the 'dust-up' at the Big House was the time, and she nursed him and she cured him, the craitur.
Upon which, as if stirred by some association of ideas, Meg added that she would go none to Marnhoul Big Hoose, "because not a soul would come near the place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "big" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
