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  • It proves the ease and amplitude of those days that a man to whom money was an obsession thought it feasible to take a house on the very toenail, as he called it, of England, so that every summer he would be faced with the expense of moving children, nurses, servants from one end of England to the other.†   (source)
  • The creature brought within him an amplitude of Northern knowledge.†   (source)
  • Then she put upon her the white frock that Tess had worn at the club-walking, the airy fulness of which, supplementing her enlarged coiffure, imparted to her developing figure an amplitude which belied her age, and might cause her to be estimated as a woman when she was not much more than a child.†   (source)
  • He regarded the delicate lines of her profile, and the small, tight, applelike convexities of her bodice, so different from Arabella's amplitudes.†   (source)
  • But the doorstep, as she drew near it, acquired a sudden interest from the fact that it was occupied—and indeed filled—by the conspicuous figure of Mr. Rosedale, whose presence seemed to take on an added amplitude from the meanness of his surroundings.†   (source)
  • The remaining dresses, though they had lost their freshness, still kept the long unerring lines, the sweep and amplitude of the great artist's stroke, and as she spread them out on the bed the scenes in which they had been worn rose vividly before her.†   (source)
  • Noises from deep underneath, clearly transmitted by the liquid medium, reverberated with majestic amplitude.†   (source)
  • And this cruel outward accuser was there in the shape of a wife—nay, of a young bride, who, instead of observing his abundant pen-scratches and amplitude of paper with the uncritical awe of an elegant-minded canary-bird, seemed to present herself as a spy watching everything with a malign power of inference.†   (source)
  • Some of them were very tall; many were dressed in white; and all had a sweeping amplitude of array that seemed to magnify their persons as a mist magnifies the moon.†   (source)
  • But the story would include a chain of events extending over the better part of two centuries, and, written out with reasonable amplitude, would fill a bigger folio volume, or a longer series of duodecimos, than could prudently be appropriated to the annals of all New England during a similar period.†   (source)
  • The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock.†   (source)
  • Slender still, but lovelier than before, she had gained no great maturity of aspect; yet there was an amplitude and a brilliancy in her personal arrangements that gave a touch of insolence to her beauty.†   (source)
  • It was a face that told of an amplitude of nature and of quick and free motions and, though it had no regular beauty, was in the highest degree engaging and attaching.†   (source)
  • Miss Ingram, who had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly amplitude, commenced a brilliant prelude; talking meantime.†   (source)
  • "I'd give a great deal to be your age again," she broke out once with a bitterness which, though diluted in her customary amplitude of ease, was imperfectly disguised by it.†   (source)
  • But her thoughts soon strayed far from her own personality; and, full of a passionate and indescribable solicitude for one to whom she was not even a name, she went forth into the amplitude of tanned wild around her, restless as Ahasuerus the Jew.†   (source)
  • Wildeve attended them to the door, beyond which the deep-dyed upward stretch of heath stood awaiting them, an amplitude of darkness reigning from their feet almost to the zenith, where a definite form first became visible in the lowering forehead of Rainbarrow.†   (source)
  • Lawyers of the past, haughty, pleading, beheld pass from the consolidated taxing office to Nisi Prius court Richie Goulding carrying the costbag of Goulding, Collis and Ward and heard rustling from the admiralty division of king's bench to the court of appeal an elderly female with false teeth smiling incredulously and a black silk skirt of great amplitude.†   (source)
  • Satisfaction at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial hemispheres, in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored (the land of the midnight sun, the islands of the blessed, the isles of Greece, the land of promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey and of excretory sanguine and seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular families of curves of amplitude, insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarieties of expression, expressive of mute immutable mature animality.†   (source)
  • My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite,
    I laugh at what you call dissolution,
    And I know the amplitude of time.†   (source)
  • In them these skies and airs, these mountain peaks, Shasta, Nevadas,
    These huge precipitous cliffs, this amplitude, these valleys, far Yosemite,
    To be in them absorb'd, assimilated.†   (source)
  • Kosmos
    Who includes diversity and is Nature,
    Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of
    the earth, and the great charity of the earth, and the equilibrium also,
    Who has not look'd forth from the windows the eyes for nothing,
    or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing,
    Who contains believers and disbelievers, who is the most majestic lover,
    Who holds duly his o†   (source)
  • I swear there is no greatness or power that does not emulate those
    of the earth,
    There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate the
    theory of the earth,
    No politics, song, religion, behavior, or what not, is of account,
    unless it compare with the amplitude of the earth,
    Unless it face the exactness, vitality, impartiality, rectitude of
    the earth.†   (source)
  • To a President
    All you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,
    You have not learn'd of Nature—of the politics of Nature you have
    not learn'd the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality,
    You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,
    And that what is less than they must sooner or later lift off from
    these States.†   (source)
  • A Prairie Sunset
    Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,
    The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd
    for once to colors;
    The light, the general air possess'd by them—colors till now unknown,
    No limit, confine—not the Western sky alone—the high meridian—
    North, South, all,
    Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.†   (source)
  • The measure'd faiths of other lands, the grandeurs of the past,
    Are not for thee, but grandeurs of thine own,
    Deific faiths and amplitudes, absorbing, comprehending all,
    All eligible to all.†   (source)
  • "O thou that comest to the woeful inn," said Minos to me, when he saw me, leaving the act of so great an office, "beware how thou enterest, and to whom thou trustest thyself; let not the amplitude of the entrance deceive thee."†   (source)
  • Witness this new-made world, another Heaven
    From Heaven-gate not far, founded in view
    On the clear hyaline, the glassy sea;
    Of amplitude almost immense, with stars
    Numerous, and every star perhaps a world
    Of destined habitation; but thou knowest
    Their seasons: among these the seat of Men,
    Earth, with her nether ocean circumfused,
    Their pleasant dwelling-place.†   (source)
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