ampleness
Example Sentences
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It tells you that by its goodly old-time ampleness, its high panelled walls with their dimming portraits, its great chimneypiece flanked by tall cupboards, and its massive overshadowing stairway.
From Virginia: the Old Dominion by Frank W. Hutchins
Within, as well as from the outside, the effect is one of an ampleness which is not borne out by the actual dimensions, which fact, of course, shows most able design and execution.
From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
She had grown into her young womanhood with an ampleness that had nothing of oversufficiency in it, nor anywhere a threat that some day there might be too much of her.
From The Conquest of Canaan by Booth Tarkington
It occurred to O'Neill that she traveled well equipped; there were boxes and baskets in full ampleness.
From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon
His descriptions have the magistral ampleness of a gesture indicating the sweep of a vast horizon.
From Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad
