ampleness
Example Sentences
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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
There was much of the ampleness of Mirabeau, but no heaviness; there was so much soul that this carried that lightly.
From Balzac by Frederick Lawton
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
The square flanking chapels of the choir serve to give an ampleness to the ambulatory which is unusual, and in the exterior present again a most interesting arrangement and effect.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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
