"Voluminous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mr. Barral, in his voluminous work on drainage,(25) describes, as follows, a cheap hand machine which can be made by any country wheelwright, and which has a capacity of 3,000 tiles ...
— Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health • George E. Waring
... of every tradesman or business man in the provinces is flooded with printed advertisements from Berlin which pour out over the small towns and the open country. Of this printed matter, which is usually thrown aside unnoticed, Toni gathered the most voluminous examples, carefully preserved the envelopes, and sent them to Robert. Her husband did not notice of course that the same advertising matter came a second time nor that faint, scarce legible pencil marks picked out words ...
— The Indian Lily and Other Stories • Hermann Sudermann
... a voluminous writer, his early work being confined to the phases of materialistic science, notably on mines and metals, and later upon man, ...
— Cosmic Consciousness • Ali Nomad
... out of a hundred—sleep in open tents. For absolute and perfect comfort proceed as follows:—Have your tent-maker sew you a tent of cheese-cloth[*] with the same dimensions as your shelter, except that the walls should be loose and voluminous at the bottom. It should ...
— The Forest • Stewart Edward White
... habit of drawing still further down; it gave her an air of great diplomatic caution, almost of casuistry. Her face was pale and narrow. She had eyes that desired to be very penetrating, and a flat little stooping figure with a suggestion of extreme neutrality within her voluminous draperies. She carried about with her all the virtues of a monastic order, patience was written upon her, and repression, discipline and the love of administration, written and underlined, so that the Anglican Sister whom no Pope blessed ...
— Hilda - A Story of Calcutta • Sara Jeannette Duncan
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