vastness

Yet this house, and the one adjoining, which also belongs to the family, are palaces in vastness, and the Countess receives me more as if I were her daughter, than a person with whom she has been acquainted but a few days.

Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

Those who have voyaged on the ocean, know the solemn feeling and the idea of vastness which is conveyed during a calm at night, when monsters of the deep are heard far and near as they come to the surface to inhale the air, or "blow," as it is called.

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

Supreme Commander embraces the idea of vastness like a Park Ranger in Alaska.

Action Commander | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

She also asks you to recall the vastness of your potential and to remember the unlimited possibilities you hold within yourself.

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Reduced to a joke, a historical sight gag, with their silly uniforms and shiny boots, inevitably, every last strutting, preening one of them (including George W. Bush) will matriculate through the university of higher humiliation known as the vastness of life.

Baby George In The Land Of The Bubble People 2005

Their admirably reasoned structures express as perfectly the idea of vastness, mystery, and complexity as do the Greek temples that of simplicity and monumental repose.

A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

It indicates in its very terms the vastness of His supernatural knowledge; asserting His cognizance of the fact that _the angels in heaven did not know_ that day and hour.

To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work 1880

I lost myself in something like nirvana, grew so subject to the idea of vastness in geological time that all human desires and purposes shrivelled to ridiculous unimportance.

Born in Exile George Gissing 1880

But it is very fine, and gives the beholder the idea of vastness, which seems harder to attain than anything else.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

But it is very fine, and gives the beholder the idea of vastness, which seems harder to attain than anything else.

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834