Do not select one for purchasing upon the basis of either mere bigness or cheapness.

Among these islands they find ambergris in lumps of extraordinary bigness, and also in smaller pieces, which resemble plants torn up.

When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature.

Another, while recognizing the essential bigness of the tale, regards it as somewhat crudely constructed and as extending the use of suggestion into the mist of obscurity.

So that after, with the aid of the Entente, having had the strength to resist the Bolshevik troops, Poland is now in a state of permanent anarchy; consumes and does not produce; pays debts with a fantastic bigness and does not know how to regulate the incomings.

Do not be cheated by perspective, by the immediate bigness of these newer things.

If writing characters were of an immense bigness, each character at close view would take up a man's whole sight, so that it would not be possible for him to see above one at once; and, therefore, he would not be able to readthat is, put different letters together, and discover the sense of all those characters put together.

The human mind could not conceive a more infinite bigness than this gleaming frost-bound waste stretched to the horizon beneath the blazing winter sun.

The restlessness I speak of as born of undisciplined bigness, of moneyed magnitude, is visible everywhere, and more so in the hours of relaxation than those of business.

In the general character of these toasts geographical considerations were very prominent, and the principal fact which seemed to occupy the minds of the speakers was the unprecedented bigness of our country.

It was a peculiar emotion: the first time I had ever felt the oppression of spacecan I describe it?the utter bigness of the world and the aloofness of myself, a little boy, within itnow that my father was gone.

In 1608, the receipt for box-trees cut down upon the sheepwalk on the hill was 50l.; in an account taken in 1712, it is supposed that as much had been cut down, within a few years before, as amounted to 3,000l.; and in 1759, a Mr. Miller lamented that "the trees on Box Hill had been pretty much destroyed; though many remained of considerable bigness.

Bearing up closer to Cuba, they saw turtles of vast bigness, and in such numbers that they covered the sea.

The parts of bodies and their interstices or pores must not be less than of some definite bigness to render them coloured.