1 She entered, and behind her, almost hidden by her voluminous calico skirts, came her twelve-year-old daughter, squirming against her mother's legs.
2 He presented his idols diffidently, but he expanded in Carol's bookishness, in Miss Sherwin's voluminous praise, in Kennicott's tolerance of any one who amused his wife.
3 His coat was of light-weight cloth with voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE 4 She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand folds and large sleeves which, starting from the neck, fell to her feet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN 5 Dares most of all shrinks far back in horror, and the noble son of Anchises turns round this way and that their vast weight and voluminous folds.
6 Alcides broke forth in anger, and with a bound hurled himself sheer amid the flames, where the smoke rolls billowing and voluminous, and the cloud surges black through the enormous den.
7 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.
8 Miss La Trobe pulled the voluminous flounces of the Victorian age over her head.
9 In these voluminous notes Toll suggested another scheme, totally different from Armfeldt's or Pfuel's plan of campaign.