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Example sentences for "voluminous"

Lexicographically close words:
volumed; volumen; volumes; volumetric; volumina; voluminously; volumus; volunt; voluntad; voluntarie
  1. She was dressed in a voluminous Tartar robe, and, wineglass in hand, was entertaining the company.

  2. Among the varied remarkable acts that he did was to write a voluminous social and political Diary of the leading events of Dudley and its people in his day, which he did not live to put in print.

  3. Now it so happened that Mr. Linney was a voluminous talker, and his free presence on the hustings with his friend, Samuel Cook, Mr. Wm.

  4. Maintenon was a voluminous letter-writer; many hundreds of her letters are published, the most interesting of which are those to the Princesse des Ursins.

  5. That is the motto that ought to be placed upon the correspondence of Madame, which was chiefly written in German and published from time to time in voluminous extracts at Strasburg and beyond the Rhine.

  6. Benton writes history and prepares voluminous compilations, which are given to the world through a Northern publisher.

  7. The laws of ritual cleanliness, especially for the priests and of Sabbath observance, were very voluminous and very minute.

  8. These deduced rules grew into a Second Law, more voluminous than the first.

  9. Let the voluminous considerations by which all modern thought converges toward idealistic or pan-psychic conclusions speak for me.

  10. Now I have not myself the least objection to idealism,--an hypothesis which voluminous considerations make plausible, and whose difficulties may be cleared away any day by new discriminations or discoveries.

  11. So immense were his collections and so voluminous his notes that the 'Origin of Species' itself seemed to him like a mere small portion of the contemplated publication.

  12. I wrote her, asking her to pay me a visit while you girls were here," stated Arline, "but she wrote back voluminous and ridiculous thanks and said the reunion was about as much as she could manage.

  13. From a voluminous sable sleeve, a long thin hand projected itself, the wiry fingers clutching a tall staff.

  14. A voluminous mother holds in her roomy lap a very fat baby, whose back and neck are full upon you as you stare into the picture.

  15. The published extracts from these voluminous outpourings lay bare the inner history of Gordon's spirit, and reveal the pious visionary of Gravesend in the restless hero of three continents.

  16. It is inconceivable how Guarino, with all the daily work which fell upon him, still found time to write translations from the Greek and voluminous original works.

  17. Hellenistic studies owed a priceless debt to the press of Aldo Manuzio at Venice, where the most important and voluminous writers were for the first time printed in the original.

  18. His voluminous letters of this period are full of complaints against the Jesuits, the company and the head of the government.

  19. It has been compiled with discrimination and care, free use being made of the voluminous correspondence of Mr. Bickersteth, which he sustained with characteristic assiduity.

  20. Moreover, he ordered to be given him, in my presence, some very voluminous papers, that I know nothing of, but which I know he set a value on.

  21. I should, however, inform you, the annexed correspondence is only a part of a much more voluminous collection from which M.

  22. I heard, while my eyes were closed, a sort of voluminous cloudy roll, and the Dark Ladye was beside me.

  23. She was slim, neither tall nor short--Peyton Morris was removing a voluminous white cloak with dull red stripes and a high collar of fox.

  24. A voluminous list, prepared by the late Mr. J.

  25. Witness his voluminous productions in the newspapers, signed long J.

  26. There are scarcely three sentences together, in all the voluminous productions of this plausible writer, which do not convey some error in fact or principle, tinged with a colouring to make it pass for truth.

  27. Had I been possessed of a tolerable competency, I should have been a voluminous writer.

  28. The first part of this toast--The United States--would be a voluminous one to respond to on a single occasion.

  29. Many of the adventures of these men would be interesting; but they are too voluminous to be embodied in our work.

  30. The latter would be too voluminous for the general reader, and has already served its purpose as an assistant to other exploring parties, both from published account and conversational directions.

  31. In the immense receptacle of these seven quarto volumes, printed with a small type, the curious may consult the voluminous Index, art.

  32. Such are the lessons drawn from this secret history of voluminous writers.

  33. Mr. Charles Butler has kindly communicated the researches of a Catholic clergyman, residing at Exeter, who having examined the voluminous registers of the See of Exeter, and numerous MSS.

  34. Footnote 210: The author of the Life of this Archbishop and Lord Keeper, a voluminous folio, but full of curious matters.

  35. Throughout a voluminous work, he experienced the enjoyment of perpetual acquisition and delight; he obtained glory, and he endured persecution.

  36. But Catherinot may escape "the pains and penalties" of our voluminous writers, for De Bure thinks he generously printed them to distribute among his friends.

  37. But his errors are voluminous as his genius!

  38. To reply to this required a complete analysis of the tragedy, which, having been found more voluminous than the tragedy itself, he considerately "published separately.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voluminous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.