bignesse

Moreouer of these creatures there are sometimes found some of an incredible bignesse, that is to say, of fourtie foot about.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

First, they haue a tree of a good bignesse which is made fast vpon two sleds, as though it were growing there, and it is hanged with apples, raisins, figs and dates, and with many other fruits abundantly.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

First, they haue a tree of a good bignesse which is made fast vpon two sleds, as though it were growing there, and it is hanged with apples, raisins, figs and dates, and with many other fruits abundantly.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03

In 1586, Ralph Fitch, the first Englishman to record his impressions of Burma, took note of the pagoda's salient qualities: The Shwedagon, he wrote, "is of a wonderful bignesse, and all gilded from the foot to the toppe ... it is the fairest place, as I suppose, that is in all the world."

Glorious Golden Pagoda

Grind-stones are to bee made, they knede the sand as they use to doe meale, and so make them of what bignesse they please.

The Decameron

Which is true, as I vnderstand by diuers, who tolde me, that there towardes the North Ocean they make their dogges to draw in carts like oxen, by reason of their bignesse and strength.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.

But here it began with yong children, male and female, either under the armepits, or in the groine by certaine swellings, in some to the bignesse of an Apple, in others like an

The Decameron

Of what bignesse Sir (quoth Calandrino) is the Stone, and what coulour?

The Decameron

The South part of this Castle is lowe lande, but very fruitfull, where grow many good fruites, among which there is one called a Dynie, of a great bignesse and full of moysture, which the people do eate after meate in steade of drinke.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

Which is true, as I vnderstand by diuers, who tolde me, that there towardes the North Ocean they make their dogges to draw in carts like oxen, by reason of their bignesse and strength.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation