extensive

• The Palace Gardens are very extensive, and are bounded on the south side by the remains of the city wall, upon which is now a pleasant walk. —  Exeter
• His reading was extensive, and his memory extraordinarily tenacious of the slightest circumstances. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• This floor is very extensive, and a great many columns and other superstructures are still standing upon it, the whole of which can be easily explored by the visitor, by means of a raised stone pathway, made by the government, which traverses it in all directions. —  Rollo in Naples
• The grounds are quite extensive, and full of curious objects. —  Down the Rhine Young America in Germany
• The harbour is very extensive, and capable of containing over 1700 vessels; but the entrance is very narrow Here we stand and view the crowds of shipping, from the magnificent Orient liner, to the saucy, piratical-looking, Sicilian fruit felucca; the latter closely packed, with their sterns to the wharves, their enormous sails and masts telling of many a speedy voyage made, and their swarthy red-capped crews having much the appearance of what we suppose pirates might be, if piracy were now a paying instead of a dangerous game. —  Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta

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