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Capacious drawers and closets for storage are mostly absent too, reflecting the paperless trend.
Designs to Make You Work Harder Sue Shellenbarger 2011
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Capacious, big-bandwidth networks will transcend many of today's specific complaints.
Unleashing the 'Exaflood' George Gilder 2008
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Capacious or not, theory was treated as a unity; and if—like Thwaite—I speak of Theory rather than theories, and if I see it as an intellectual event or grouping of intellectual events, I ought to be able to define its conceptual unity.
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Capacious or not, theory was treated as a unity; and if—like Thwaite—I speak of Theory rather than theories, and if I see it as an intellectual event or grouping of intellectual events, I ought to be able to define its conceptual unity.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Capacious cow and calf stables, suitable sheds, and piggeries were designed and constructed as an example to be followed in starting an up-to-date dairy farm.
Australia, The Dairy Country Australia. Dept. of External Affairs
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Capacious canvas kit-bags are excellent things for cramming with grist for the dobie's mill.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne
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Capacious in mind and body, with a large sense of humour, of strict personal integrity, and a hearty enjoyment of life, it is indeed sad to think of him at the present moment as lying on a bed of languishing, from which it is doubtful whether he will rise more.
Boycotted And Other Stories Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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Capacious, convenient, and substantial, they embodied his most ingenious contrivances, and his highest engineering skill.
The Life of Thomas Telford Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1867
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Capacious as pitchers, they almost superseded decanters.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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"So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters."
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