1 They seemed only to throw her own exceptionalness into becoming relief, and give a soaring vastness to her scheme of life.
2 She realized the vastness and the emptiness of the land.
3 The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson 4 He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middle Georgia, ceded by the Indians the year before Gerald came to America.
5 Unhampered by matrimony or widowhood, they made vast inroads on the convalescents, and even the least attractive girls, Scarlett observed gloomily, had no difficulty in getting engaged.
6 The unravaged state was a vast granary, machine shop and storehouse for the Confederacy.
7 Scarlett had no qualm of conscience as she watched them but only a feeling of vast relief that she had made her escape.
8 Then, as she started back toward the driver's seat, a vast weariness assailed her and she swayed dizzily.
9 Lily's preference would have been for an English nobleman with political ambitions and vast estates; or, for second choice, an Italian prince with a castle in the Apennines and an hereditary office in the Vatican.
10 They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
11 Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities.
12 Beyond him, in the hallway and the living-room, sitting in a vast prim circle as though they were attending a funeral, she saw the guests.
13 Kennicott wore a brown canvas hunting-coat with vast pockets lining the inside, corduroy trousers which bulged at the wrinkles, peeled and scarred shoes, a scarecrow felt hat.
14 As the vast girdle of crimson darkened, the fulfilled land became autumnal in deep reds and browns.
15 When she did contrive to get sweetbreads at Dahl & Oleson's Meat Market the triumph was so vast that she buzzed with excitement and admired the strong wise butcher, Mr. Dahl.