The privilege of hunting in the royal forests was confined to the king and his favourites; and in order that these umbrageous retreats might be made more extensive, whole villages were depopulated, places of worship levelled with the ground, and every means adopted that might give a sufficient amplitude of space, in accordance with the royal pleasure, for the beasts of the chase.

It was his instinct to dilate and elaborate every image to the utmost, and his similies, especiallyeach of which usually fills a whole stanzahave the pictorial amplitude of Homer's.

Out of the moist earth it has sprung; In the gracious amplitudes of her bosom it was nurtured, And in it is wrought the miracle of life.

Little would be gained by giving any detailed analysis of the plot developed through the leisurely amplitude of its 10,000 lines, while any attempt to deal, however slightly, with the sources and literary analogues of the work would lead us far beyond the scope of the present chapter.

This is a puny and groveling ambition, beneath the lofty amplitude of Mr. Coleridge's mind.

At the head of the party were Rose and Frederic, side by side on their bicycles, opening the nuptial march with majestic amplitude.

The railroad-car, the telegraph, and the apple-flavored chloroform could and do realize, every day,as was stated in the passage referred to, with a certain rhetorical amplitude not doubtfully suggestive of the lecture-room,all that was fabled to have been done by the carpet, the tube, and the fruit of the Arabian story.

The railroad-car, the telegraph, and the apple-flavored chloroform could and do realize, every day,as was stated in the passage referred to, with a certain rhetorical amplitude not doubtfully suggestive of the lecture-room,all that was fabled to have been done by the carpet, the tube, and the fruit of the Arabian story.

Was it partly by reason of his inordinate romantic good looks, those of a gallant, genial conqueror, but which, involving so glossy a brownness of eye, so manly a crispness of curl, so red-lipped a radiance of smile, so natural a bravery of port, prescribed to any response he might facially, might expressively, make a sort of florid, disproportionate amplitude?

The events and incidents of the conflictmaking up a whole, in varied amplitude, corresponding with the geographical area covered by the warfrom these but a few themes have been taken, such as for any cause chanced to imprint themselves upon the mind.

" Patty always felt particularly grand and grown up when she used the word function, and now that she had mentally applied it to the Tea Club meeting, that simple affair seemed to take on a gigantic amplitude and fairly seemed to cry out for elaborate devices of all sorts.