ampleness

Example Sentences

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His descriptions have the magistral ampleness of a gesture indicating the sweep of a vast horizon. 

From Notes on Life and Letters by Conrad, Joseph

The ampleness of that reverberance is almost isolated.

From Aspects of Literature by Murry, J. Middleton

As part of his romantic endowment, he prefers to place plot and personages in the dim backward of Time, gaining thus in perspective and ampleness of atmosphere.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard

Upon Penrod they visibly surpassed mere ampleness; but they were long, and it required only a rather loose imagination to assume that they were tights.

From Penrod by Tarkington, Booth

There was much of the ampleness of Mirabeau, but no heaviness; there was so much soul that this carried that lightly.

From Balzac by Lawton, Frederick