She paused and murmured words mechanically, but all the while her eyes dreamed through me and beyond me with the largeness of the vision that filled them.
When they have not only great understanding but largeness of heart and a greatness and nobleness of disposition, this is another qualification that belongs to the character of a strong rod.
The greatness and honorableness of his disposition was answerable to the largeness of his understanding.
Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came toward him, with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes.
They conducted me to their encampment; and there, having opened my bag, they were surprised at the largeness of my diamonds, and confessed that they had never seen any of such size and perfection.
The largeness of its features made it appear the most deformed animal that can be conceived.
The weather being very warm, the closet window was left open, as well as the windows and door of my bigger box, in which I usually lived, because of itslargeness and conveniency.
But the admiration of it was, more than any other artist's whatsoever, fastened on largeness of scale.
Now in all this observe how the higher condition of art (for I suppose the reader will feel, with me, that Turner's is the highest) depends upon largeness of sympathy.
This largeness of generalization gives him power over the imagination, and is, perhaps the only, certainly the chief source of his power.
The Bishop's brain turned giddy, and the perspiration started from his temples, but his dignity and his largeness did not desert him.
He whipped about with as much of largeness as he could simulate, rattled his keys as he went back, and even hummed a tune as he climbed the narrow stairs.
The former is opposed to the ordinary feelings of a servile state, and implies largeness of spirit in giving, judging, acting, etc.
Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions.
Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
It was indeed his supremacy in both faculties, the largeness of the passive nature and the splendour of action, that constituted the secret of his success.
Even Liberalism owes to the movement of which he was the soul much of what makes it now such a contrast, in largeness of mind and warmth, to the dry, repulsive, narrow, material Liberalism of the Reform era.
Surely a work in which the greatest exactness and precision, as well as largenessof thought, would not be too much.
He thoroughly sympathised with the earnestness and strong convictions of English religion; but he thought it lamentably destitute of rational grounds, of largeness of idea and of critical insight, enslaved to the letter, and afraid of inquiry.
Here, then, time adds to the largeness of the city idea.
The largenessof view which breaks upon us when we begin to think of the city as a whole rather than only of a number of isolated individuals is more than a perception of mass and magnitude.
Largeness of conception and execution, and only so much detail as shall be necessary to the best expression compatible with that largeness.
Is it a sense of largeness and space, or a beautiful combination of line in the track of a road, or row of trees, or a river?
There is something thoroughly worthy of Browning at his best in this feeling, not merely of the use of sociability, or of the charm of sociability, but of the magnificence, the heroic largeness of real sociability.
But mechanical ingenuity is not the essence either of painting or architecture, and largeness of dimension does not necessarily involve nobleness of design.
The drawings are marked by a peculiar largeness and simplicity of thought: most of them by deep serenity, passing into melancholy; all by a richness of color, such as he had never before conceived.
Then it came over me with a sudden sense of largeness and quietude that the game old ruffian had his place in the order of things.
It was a humorous trio, and the lonely singer changed his voice for each verse with a largeness and confidence in his vocal powers that quite carried me away.
If he has not the grand simplicity of epic treatment, he has at least something of the largeness of vision that belongs to the epical temper.
Certainly, in Walt Whitman’s views there is a largeness of vision, a healthy sanity and a fine ethical purpose.
Whoever is turned from his natural path may, if he will, gain in largeness and depth what he loses in simple beauty; and so it was with Goethe.
We derive pleasure and profit in very unequal degrees from their statements, in proportion to their candor, clearness of perception, severity of judgment, and largeness of view.
Widely as we differ from him, we cheerfully bear witness to the largeness of his views, the clearness of his reasoning, and the value of his speculations as contributing to intellectual progress.
These, and the every-day knowledge which the agriculturist gains by experience respecting the management of plants and animals, constitute his stock of biological facts; on the largeness of which greatly depends his success.
In the largeness of her nature there had been small room for regret or for wasted passion, and until her meeting with Christopher on the day of her homecoming he had existed in her imagination only as a bright and impossible memory.
Hugh thought her insight surprising, while she enjoyed the spirituallargeness she fancied she saw in his immobile features.
Yet the largeness with which the colt's eyes stared through and beyond him was significant to all.
On reading this bill I was struck, not merely by his gift of one hundred thousand dollars to his townsmen, but even more by a certain breadth and largeness in his way of making it.
