His lofty genius aspired to the conquest of Italy: he was possessed of a strong city and a capacious harbor; and the same reign might have been decorated with the trophies of the New and the Ancient Rome.
The harbor, encompassed on all sides by the sea, and the continent, is the most secure and capacious in the world.
But before he and his friend could get over the wall, the villains effected their escape, leaving behind them a capacious sack and all the implements of their infernal trade.
Nearly the whole body of the caterpillar is occupied by a capacious stomach.
Huber gives the following curious account of the manner in which bees proceed in forming capacious cells for the workers' grubs destined to royalty.
Unlike his own Assyrian cities, there were no bowmen on these walls, no guard in this capacious gate, through which all seemed free to pass at will.
Fill up the polished bowls with care-dispelling Massic: pour out the perfumed ointments from the capacious shells.
Again he tore away, and triumphantly waved the black flag around his head, while from his capacious lungs there burst yells of defiance and scorn, that could be distinguished for his own even at that distance.
Leslie and Captain Erskine in the same breath, as the dripping Johnstone buried himself in the folds of a capacious cloak procured during his absence.
While the angry boatswain was yet rolling his quid within his capacious jaws, racking his brain for the strongest language wherein to give vent to his indignation, his ears were suddenly saluted by a low but clear "Hilloa!
Beyond this is a capacious gulf, called the Saronian Gulf.
Bruin did not wait for a second invitation, but, stretching out his huge legs, picked up the fresh vegetables, which he thrust into his capacious jaws with every appearance of relish.
The entrance into it is by a narrow channel, admitting only one vessel at a time, while its capacious basin within, is capable of containing more than a thousand ships.
It has a fine, capacious harbor, scarcely second to that of Havana, and strongly defended by a castle, and several inferior batteries.
At length a capacious basin is entered, black as ink, surrounded by a bold and extensive shore as white as chalk.
Into these deep and capacious tubes the ruby-throat, with its long bill, probes, and draws forth either the sweets it produces, or picks up the multitude of flies entangled in the nectar.
He feeds on snails and water creatures; sometimes on crayfish and other crustaceans; and occasionally, if a duckling or young chicken come in his way, he will not scruple to take them into his capacious maw.
Spaces of woodland here and there dapple the slopes, and the cozy red farm-houses repose by the side of their capacious red barns.
While they stand watching, they see him once more plunge his hand into those capacious saddle-bags, where for a time it rummages about.
But all these things were concealed from the view by a capacious poncho, which is a garment that in South America serves as a cloak by day and a blanket by night.
These passed into her mouth, and thence, of course, into her capacious stomach.
Tom, who had not spoken a word for several minutes, produced the matches from a capacious pocket, and we all laughed rather immoderately at the feeble sally.
Occasionally an item of his memoranda would come to light, and thrusting his hand into his capacious pocket, where lay the proceeds of his check, he would pay for it upon the spot, and insist upon having it rolled up.
His house, a rambling West Indian mansion, was surrounded with deep, spacious piazzas, covered with luxurious lounges, among which one capacious chair was his peculiar seat.
His capacious mind was ever restless, ever excited, not exactly with the desire of personal aggrandizement, but of mighty enterprise, of magnificent achievement.
It was a vast and gloomy pile, so capacious in its halls, its chapel, its cells, and its subterranean dungeons, that at one time nearly ten thousand prisoners were immured within its frowning walls.
Even to Josephine he revealed not his intentions; and no mortal scrutiny could explore the thoughts fermenting in his deep and capacious mind.
Memory, in those days, was enormously and abnormally capacious and retentive, but there was no appreciation of humanity.
Some souls, more capacious than others, have a richer and more varied experience, and thus inevitably become teachers.
Louis nodded his head, and sitting down on a projecting root of a scrub oak, produced from the depths of his capacious pocket a bit of tin, which he carefully selected from among a miscellaneous hoard of treasures.
Vida smiled to herself as she leaned back among the cushions of her capacious sofa, cutting the pages of a book.
It must be a capacious eye that takes in all the visible facts in the history of the most familiar natural object.
Another not less conclusive fact is that the valleys of all the upland tributaries of the Ardeche descend so rapidly, and have so little lateral expansion, as to render the construction of capacious reservoirs in them quite impracticable.
It is of great depth, and its basin is capacious enough to receive and retain all the sediment which the Rhine would carry into it for thousands of years.
She kept it a picture of comfort, and was herself the most comfortable thing in it, with her large clean rosy face and white hair, her cap with bright ribbons, and her most capacious lap.
Well, it is good to be home and see all you funny folk again," Alan said contentedly, as he lay back in a most downy and capacious arm-chair.
Four sportsmen, such as he and his master associated with, bobbed comfortably up and down in the capacious seats of that approaching car.
