vastitude
Example Sentences
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The city's restless vastitude soon undermines his ambition; he is unable to write his novel, is too frequently in need of sleep.
From Time Magazine Archive
The crowd found it almost impossible to see across the vastitude.
From Time Magazine Archive
On all other sides the flat-lands stretched out seeming to have no end, suggesting to the fancy that they were kin in vastitude to the clear expanse of the sky.
From The Bells of San Juan by Gregory, Jackson
And he who owns the wealth Which blocks the window's vastitude, —Ah, could I peep at him by stealth Behind his ware, pass shop, intrude On house itself, what scenes were viewed!
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald
Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by London, Jack
