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- noun Plural form of
vastness .
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Examples
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His first generalizations were that the world was composed of great wastes and white vastnesses, and populated with Indians and white hunters like his father.
CHAPTER 5 2010
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Crazed with suffering, I thought, looking steadfastly at the man -- one of those wild stampeders, strayed far from his bearings and wandering like a lost soul through great vastnesses and unknown deeps.
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Eppingwell proposed the hazardous undertaking and made him an offer for his services, he had shaken his head gravely; for it was an unknown journey through the dismal vastnesses of the
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When Captain Eppingwell proposed the hazardous undertaking and made him an offer for his services, he had shaken his head gravely; for it was an unknown journey through the dismal vastnesses of the Northland, and he knew it to be of the kind that try to the uttermost the souls of men.
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This could be the edge of heaven, this view from the beach into endless water and sky, the margin between two vastnesses.
equilibrium 2009
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This could be the edge of heaven, this view from the beach into endless water and sky, the margin between two vastnesses.
equilibrium andrew p. phillips 2009
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But I was conscious even then of a vast and intricate web of human groups, feuds, ties, revenges and obligations, and an incredible fierceness in the air; and of how small were Nato forces, and how limited our understanding, in the face of such vastnesses of history and geography.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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But I was conscious even then of a vast and intricate web of human groups, feuds, ties, revenges and obligations, and an incredible fierceness in the air; and of how small were Nato forces, and how limited our understanding, in the face of such vastnesses of history and geography.
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In fact, this Life I call my life is merely the "gap" between the dark vastnesses from which I once arose and to which we all return.
On Divine Attention 2006
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No wide vistas open behind them, no far-flung landscapes, no airy vastnesses of heaven.
Darkness Audible: Negative Capability and Mark Dotys 'Nocturne in Black and Gold' 2003
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