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    voluminous


    1. That explains it: I have heard about certain persons lately who, although they are illiterate, have become successful travelling salesmen and earn up to 700,000 drachmas per month! Taking into account that a salesman's commission is no higher than 10%, how do they manage to make sales of 7,000,000 drachmas every month? What do they really sell? Encyclopedias? Come on now! Nowadays you can find cheap and voluminous encyclopedias in bookstores or, even, on offer in newspapers! Why would anyone pay dearly a commercial traveller? Unless they sell other things, other ''services'', instead of books


    2. You can imagine his surprise when the old woman produced a long length of coiled rope from under her voluminous purple overcoat


    3. Annie greeted her great-aunt softly and settled herself into the voluminous folds of one of the armchairs


    4. herself into the voluminous folds of one of the armchairs


    5. “All I have is still open to you, Ava dear,” he said and she didn’t even flinch much when the thick-skinned grey hand came out of his voluminous sleeve to pat hers


    6. Not to be confused with voluminous


    7. I had intended that God in the “dialogue” would have had the last word in this rather voluminous essay, or assay as the dictionary might better describe it, “To examine by trial


    8. That whole benefit is already possible with the resources existent, without needing of voluminous financial contributions or indebtedness, without damaging anybody, without causing economic recession or sacrifice to the people or organizations


    9. Each Bank3Sector servant will have the finality of building fantastic financial amount of trillion of trillion dollars, without this voluminous capital is returned or lent with remuneration


    10. Since we don't make full use of the capability of the monster we have in this location to prepare the voluminous reports for the government, we wish to move in the direction of having the computer do much of the reporting

    11. This work is small as yet, but it is destined to swell into voluminous


    12. It would help to polish his skills--no doubt--reading the work of such a voluminous author


    13. Wrapping a voluminous silken cloak about her lithe figure and donning a velvet cap from which depended a filmy veil, she passed hurriedly through the corridors and approached a bronze door where a dozen spearmen gaped at her as she passed through


    14. I was in a voluminous wool nightgown with gathered sleeves, an embroidered robe belted at the waist and thin slippers on my feet


    15. If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit


    16. That Nancy was herself a war correspondent and thus was well known by her foreign colleagues just made the articles about her more detailed and voluminous


    17. In contrast, bicycle traffic was quite voluminous, with men and women of all ages pedaling around, often with a bag of groceries or other items tied to the rear rack of their bicycles


    18. Despite their voluminous size, woodchucks are vegetarians, and all vegetables in your garden are fair game


    19. Things didn’t get better when the WILDCATs finally dove on the Japanese bombers of the second wave, which were protected by only six ZERO fighters, as the fighter control frequency then exploded into voluminous and endless chatter, exclamations and shouts, rendering nearly impossible any command control of the battle


    20. New media technology capturing a lot of information about consumer values, lifestyle, preference, intentions and recommendations comes from disparate sources and voluminous in size

    21. Its needle-like nose was flanked by two huge rectangular engine air inlets and connected to a long, wide fuselage that contained both the two huge TF-58R combination turbofan/ramjet engines and the multiple internal weapons bays of the aircraft, plus voluminous internal fuel tanks


    22. The more voluminous their collection became, the more difficulty they had trying to unify it


    23. The torso, short in proportion to the legs, supported two strong arms with four-digit fingers, with a long, relatively thin neck supporting a head with a voluminous cranium


    24. Hench held his head in his hands (which was a great relief, as it meant that his voluminous belly dropped back down to his knees, covering a multitude of pink-satin sins)


    25. The fact that faith in Christ can either be accepted or rejected shows the voluminous productivity of the unconscious mind


    26. music had been as rich and voluminous as ever, his physical stature had shrunk to


    27. She filled her days helping the women in the camp get through what seemed a never ending array of chores—preparing and cooking all the meals, fetching water for cleaning, scrubbing laundry by hand at the river’s edge, cleaning the bedding, bathing the children, swatting the voluminous dust and sand from rugs and eiderdowns with handmade brooms—it seemed as if every woman in the camp was busy from sun up till well after sundown


    28. His name is Collins, and some days he wears a pink shirt, and other days a blue shirt, and in his right cuff there is a pink silk handkerchief on the pink days, and a blue silk handkerchief on the blue days; and he has stuck up the pictures he likes to have about him on the walls of his room, and where your Luini used to be there is a young lady in a voluminous hat and short skirts, and where your Bellini Madonna sat and looked at you with austere, beautiful eyes there is the winner, complete with jockey, of last year's Derby


    29. She sat between the two men in her old-fashioned voluminous white frock, looking from one to the other with eager pride while they talked


    30. "But to think that I _forgot_ the picture!" she said, looking up at him shocked, while the ancient humility in which the Bishop had so carefully trained her descended on her once more, only four-fold this time, like a garment grown voluminous since last it was put on

    31. He mixed various other ingredients into the propulsive powder so that when the rockets were launched skyward they would emit voluminous white smoke plumes


    32. Their entire life’s work is left to rot inside voluminous journals


    33. curtains and caused the voluminous folds of her ball


    34. Rising to his feet, he was to Hanor’s chin in height, the voluminous gown covering


    35. At the instance of the Big Bang there was voluminous plasma made from these subatomic energies


    36. Thick, voluminous clouds were developing and I could hear the ominous sounds of thunder rumbling


    37. His grandfather was a black Cossack you know,’ and he pushed his young partner with a flourish of the hand and let out a voluminous ‘hah’ sound, to which he felt there was nothing to add


    38. Interspersed among all this voluminous and expressive creativity were


    39. Down upon them came the splendid Magdalen, brown, warm, voluminous, scarcely brushing the grass with her sandalled feet


    40. For a year Jo and her Professor worked and waited, hoped and loved, met occasionally, and wrote such voluminous letters that the rise in the price of paper was accounted for, Laurie said

    41. Well, in as much as they might face me, peering down, considering I’ve never seen beneath those voluminous hoods and can’t even say whether they have faces or eyes


    42. Burney Falls is the most voluminous waterfall in the state of California for most of the year, a sign explained


    43. Mount Mazama blew up about 7,700 years ago in a cataclysmic eruption that was forty-two times more voluminous than the eruption that decapitated Mount St


    44. While she had told Puller that she needed to report in and start filling out voluminous paperwork, her real purpose was to stay behind and then follow Donovan Carter when he left the facility


    45. Probably not voluminous


    46. “Well, bring in the bride,” said Gerald, and Pork, turning, beckoned into the hall to his She entered, and behind her, almost hidden by her voluminous calico skirts, came her wife, newly arrived from the Wilkes plantation to become part of the household of Tara


    47. Opposite the spot to which he had brought her was such a general confluence, and the river was proportionately voluminous and deep


    48. Casaubon to become engaged and married: but this learned gentleman was possessed of a fortune; he had assembled his voluminous notes, and had made that sort of reputation which precedes performance,—often the larger part of a man's fame


    49. Voluminous studies of the American Telephone and Telegraph System have emanated from the investigation carried on by the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to a Congressional resolution adopted in 1935


    50. On the other hand, some of the best known—such as Moody’s Investment Service and Standard & Poor’s—are identified with statistical organizations that compile the voluminous statistical data that form the basis for all serious security analysis























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    Synonyms for "voluminous"

    copious voluminous tortuous twisting twisty winding

    "voluminous" definitions

    large in volume or bulk


    marked by repeated turns and bends


    large in number or quantity (especially of discourse)