voluminousness

• “Hanley Black surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of antediluvian, New-England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye.”

  THE KANAKA SURF

• “Here in dim and desperate forms, under the ban of our base culture, stormed at by silly magistrates, sneered at by silly schoolmasters -- here is the old popular literature still popular; here is the unmistakable voluminousness, the thousand-and-one tales of Dick Deadshot, like the thousand-and-one tales of Robin Hood.”

  Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win

• “The great achievement of The Bridge is the sheer voluminousness of its coverage.”

  The Guardian: The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama by David Remnick

• “Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness.”

  “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”

• “Each generation taught the older one a lesson in sheer voluminousness.”

  Simon & Schuster: A History of American Law

• “My only fear is that there is perhaps a little too much of the novel in it, so that some of the dialogue has a Shavian voluminousness.34”

  Simon & Schuster: A Life in Letters

• “It may, if it possesses the luxury of voluminousness or the arrogance of superficiality, attempt to place nearly equal emphasis upon each of these aspects, but there is no proof that a general, inclusive history is any more meaningful than a specialized one.”

  Another Roadside Attraction

• “He defends the style, the voluminousness, and the contents of the”

  Lunheng

• “It is safe to say the display of aquatic life made here, could rival the greatest permanent aquaria in existence; not only as to their voluminousness, but the immense variety of their specimens.”

  By Water to the Columbian Exposition

• “Whether as a work of reference, a record of current scientific development, or as an organ and exponent of our inventors, it stands alone for the general ability of its conduct, the voluminousness and variety of its contents, the exactitude and extent of its knowledge, and the correctness of its information.”

  Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.

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