Finally, and in many respects most important of all, you have acquired a vast stock of synonyms.
Speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vastcathedral leave him, God accept him, Christ receive him.
Not one in all that vast but was willing to his slightest suggestion.
A good musician keeps unremitting command over every possible touch of each key and at the same time seeks sweeping mastery over vast and complex harmonies.
It is that in Virginia and the Carolinas they have a vast multitude of slaves.
Well, for one thing, there is no such thing as leisure in the areas that lie beyond those vast aggregations of humanity which constitute our cities.
Then we found a coloured cook, a vast and very cheery young man, who turned out an excellent chef.
Not only did it use its own vast power, but it used all the power of the United States Treasury to carry out its plans.
The reflection from the sky ofvast conflagrations made the street almost as light as day.
Vast populations grew frenzied over such phrases as "an honest dollar" and "a full dinner pail.
Out of thevast army of the unemployed the strike-breakers were recruited; and when the strike-breakers were worsted by the labor unions, the troops always appeared and crushed the unions.
I was delighted with the unselfishness and high idealism I encountered, though I was appalled by the vast philosophic and scientific literature of socialism that was opened up to me.
Calhoun said: "A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
With the accumulation of vast fortunes, the problem of disposing of these fortunes after death was a vexing one to the accumulators.
Instead of a short interval expanding into a vast one, upon this occasion a long one had contracted into a minute.
They show how richly stored his mind was; how correctly his taste had been formed on the best models; how vast a stock of images, comparisons, and associations, he brought to bear on the events and characters which he passed in survey.
Could one but see in vision the harbour, the streets, the vastencompassing wall!
At an unexpected turn of the road there spread before me a vast prospect; I looked down upon inland Calabria.
And how vast the historic significance of such monumental words!
Appropriate enough amid this vast silence to turn one's thoughts to the Saracens, who are so largely answerable for the ages of desolation that have passed by the Ionian Sea.
Here one looks down upon the yellow gorge of the Crati, and sees it widen northward into a vast green plain, in which the track of the river is soon lost.
All about lay a level or slightly rolling country, which in winter becomes a wilderness of mud; dry traces of vast slough and occasional stagnant pools showed what the state of things would be a couple of months hence.
But yet, there is another point of vast distance, I may say contrariety and enmity, between us and him.
But this is the vast difference between spiritual things and bodily, eternal things and temporal, that there is no man possessed of spiritual good, but he desires a community.
There ought to be a vast difference between a believer now, and before his conversion.
But this draws a substantial and vast difference indeed, such as is between flesh and spirit, such as is between men and beasts.
O what a vast descent was this, from heaven to earth, from a Lord to a servant, from an eternal Spirit to mortal flesh, from God to creatures!
Hath he not chained the vast and huge mass of the weighty earth and sea, in the midst of the empty place, without a supporter, without foundations or pillars?
Here is the principal design that should be driven at and if men would make it, and follow it, O how should they be satisfied with the fulness of that kingdom, the vast dimensions of it, the incorruptibleness of it!
Now, if any thing could be imagined less than nothing, could you at all guess at the vast distance between it and a being?
And, O how little bounds is within any created breast for the immortal spirit, that is sovast and expatiating in its desires to dwell in!
Haverton Moor harbored vast numbers of birds, and the grouse shooting was among the best in Yorkshire.
To London for a time; it is a safe place--such a vast crowd--and probably I am forgotten at Dartmoor.
Again the echo ran over the hills, and again he turned and looked towards that vast moor which lay behind.
So Philemon and Baucis took up their residence in the marble palace, and spent their time, with vast satisfaction to themselves, in making everybody jolly and comfortable who happened to pass that way.
Lentz, the gem expert of Goffony & Company, a man of vast erudition as well as a practical jeweler.
His railroad became so much junk and his vast plans just so much waste paper as he thought of Tom.
First, I had to become instantly and sensationally known as the possessor of vast wealth.
Its bearing on your happiness is vital--also on the success of your great father's vast plans.
To show that he was unimpressed byvast wealth he added, sternly, "No trouble, you understand!
He seemed to be lost in thought, oblivious of his whereabouts, as Richards read: Robison, care Richtut: Mogulgar wind Lloyd Vast Nigger Shaw twice home urban sweet Edward.
Again and again vast sums of money were collected and poured into their bottomless purses, and the Companions promised on receipt of these sums to surrender their castles and quit the country.
In the vast majority of cases these so-called oubliettes are nothing but openings connected with the drainage of the castle or else are the well-mouths of cisterns in which the rain-water from the roofs was collected and stored.
Originally a vast region in Perigord--the Black Perigord, as it was called from its sombre woods and deep cleft ravines, was one plateau of hard chalk, raised from six hundred and fifty to nine hundred feet above the sea.
England, in 1152, the vast possessions of her family were united to those of the Angevin house, which claimed the English crown.
The Termites who construct vastdwellings of clay, the Beavers who build huts of wood and of mud, have in this industry reached the same point as Man.
The Vizcacha (Lagostomus trichodactylus) is a large Rodent inhabiting a vast extent of country in the pampas of La Plata, Patagonia, etc.
The whole space between it and the general wall is filled by vast storehouses, divided into many very spacious compartments.
And instantly we heard a re-port like two or three muskets discharged together; the vast sail was rent up and clown like the Vail of the Temple.
Nor was this a very light duty, at times; for some commodores, though they do not say a great deal on board ship, yet they have a vast deal to write.
Below us, our noble frigate seemed thrice its real length--a vast black wedge, opposing its widest end to the combined fury of the sea and wind.
Sometimes he essays a stately and graduated step, an erect and martial bearing, and seems full of the vast national importance of what he is about to communicate.
With this huge Lake Ontario in us, the mighty Neversink might be said to resemble the united continent of the Eastern Hemisphere--floating in a vast ocean herself, and having a Mediterranean floating in her.
You dine at a vast table d'hote; sleep in commons, and make your toilet where and when you can.
And here is ample scope for some pregnant instruction, how that events of vast magnitude in our man-of-war world may originate in the pettiest of trifles.
Her vast hull loomed out of the night, showing hundreds of seamen in the hammock-nettings, some tossing over ropes, others madly flinging overboard the hammocks; but I was too far out from them immediately to reach what they threw.
A retreat with this force into the vast interior would have left Napoleon as a general just where he was before.
The report of Napoleon's conciliatory attitude had gone abroad, there was money in the treasury, a vast armament was prepared, the peace so ardently desired was evidently to be such as is made by the lion with his prey.
To meet these enormous expenditures there had been inaugurated throughout Europe a system of what may be termed private confiscations, the vast dimensions of which can never be justly estimated.
In addition to this regular army, there was another irregular one of vast but vague dimensions, consisting of the entire nation.
The grandees kept gloomy state in vast palaces filled with hordes of idle servants.
Was the vaststructure he had so laboriously erected now to fall in one crash at his feet?
The pregnancy of the Empress was celebrated with great festivities, during which Napoleon performed one of his most applauded acts--the endowment of a vast maternity hospital.
Day by day the people labored, the townsfolk helping to gather the peasants' goods, both classes waylaying the French supply-trains, and hiding every article of use invast underground chambers constructed for the purpose.
We do want your assistance in the administration of the vast Empire which is yours as well as ours.
We have grown so large and control so vast an area and population that we forget that these rivals once threatened our existence.
The Russian empire stretches over a vast territory in E.
The weary Titan staggers under the too vast orb of his fate.
It gave England the control of the seas and the mastery of North America and India, made her the first of commercial nations, and prepared that vast colonial system that has planted new Englands in every part of the globe.
It has permitted the assimilation of vast hordes of white people, who now cherish this government as their own.
Assisting the millionaire's daughter to remove her wrap, she carried it to the cloak-room at the back, then assisted the pair to arrange their chairs.
It was beside a broad pool where lily pads lay upon placid waters that Jeanne at last found a place of repose beneath the mellow autumn sun, to settle down to the business of doing her bit of sun worship.
As everyone knows, the first lesson to be learned in the school of proper training is the art of deception.
Let us think of the vast display of Nature's forces which was made within the long period of our old neighbor's life; but let us also reflect upon the bright pageant that is now unrolling itself before him in a better world.
But voices breaking the silence Are heard, fast drawing nigh, And falls on his ear the clamor Of vast crowds moving by: "What is it?
Another vast column of steam hung in mid air, and when it lifted they could distinguish the gangs of men hard at work, marking the site of more than one annihilated village.
It was but the work of the winds, stirring the vast deposit of dust covering hill and forest.
He was watching for the first sign of the Maori encampment, which he knew he should find beyond the vast tract which had been desolated by the rain of mud.
The Boche, who is the priest of the Higher Counter-jumpery, would have had half the neutral Press out in cars to advertise these vast spectacles of men and material.
He alone can save the Country, from the vast deluge of anarchy now pouring in.
Such questions, however, come dangerously near to science, and its vast analogies.
For now his vast knowledge, and accuracy, simplicity, gentleness, and playful humour, had won the warm friendship of our Dr.
But Chumps was a boy of vast understanding, and extraordinary culture.
I had a vast deal more to say to you, but I must not stay away from them not any longer.
Her inviting you to town is certainly a vast thing in your favour; and indeed, it speaks altogether so great a regard for you, that in all probability when she dies you will not be forgotten.
I suppose you have not so many in this part of the world; for my part, I think they are a vast addition always.
Well, I am convinced that there is a vast deal of inconsistency in almost every human character.
A man must pay for his convenience; and it HAS cost me a vast deal of money.
Pyramids So soon as from the Earth formless and rude One living step had chased drear Solitude Thou wert, Thought; thy brightness charmed the lids 15 Of the vast snake Eternity, who kept The tree of good and evil.
And still less is his vast superiority in intellectual attainments sufficiently understood--his sagacity, his clear understanding, his learning, his prodigious memory.
One ocean feeds the clouds, and streams, and dew; One Sun illumines Heaven; one Spirit vast With life and love makes chaos ever new, As Athens doth the world with thy delight renew.
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.
At first all deadly shapes were driven Tumultuously across her sleep, And o'er the vast cope of bending heaven 15 All ghastly-visaged clouds did sweep; And the Lady ever looked to spy If the golden sun shone forth on high.
They soon reached a vast plain three hundred miles across, utterly deserted by the human race; a desert composed half of barren rock and half of swampy quagmire, soft above, but at a foot deep solid and perpetual ice.
He knew the general direction from the distant mountains, and he wished to avoid a vast morass.
The list is naturally one of tremendous length, and covers not less than three whole sides of the vast building.
Beside, if I chose to take a long journey, I could find ivory in vast heaps.
Scattered over the soil were the yourtes of the Yakoutas, while cattle and horses crowded together in vast flocks.
Instead, however, of falling into a stream of cold water, Ivan found himself in a vast and chilly vault, with a small trickling stream in the middle, and at once recollected a not unfrequent phenomenon.
The country is here composed of marshes, vast downs, huge forests, and hills covered with snow in the month of September, the time when he began his journey.
