ampleness
Example Sentences
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This has always been a daring procedure, but in this case it has been carried out with success, and gives the desired effect,—that of ampleness and height.
From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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 Booth Tarkington
She had grown into her young womanhood with an ampleness that had nothing of oversufficiency in it, nor anywhere a threat that some day there might be too much of her.
From The Conquest of Canaan by Booth Tarkington
She did not know how I looked upon it, nor how I would have her take it; was she to laugh or to be solemn, to ridicule or to pretend with handsome ampleness?
From The King's Mirror by Anthony Hope
Such music must remain in our soul, where, in reality, the genius of those Florentine architects has contrived the satisfying ampleness of their buildings.
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Vernon Lee
