Luther! vast was the good you did us.

Vast, vaster, vastest, are words as smooth, as fast, faster, fastest; and more vast is certainly as good English as more just: "Shall mortal man be more just than God?"Job, iv, 17.

So vast was the head and so small the aperture that one of the lateral wings of the chubby face caught on the sill, and the owner brought it away successfully with a jerk and a perfectly good-humored and audible "flip.

Vast has been the increase of knowledge in pathology that science which teaches us the final change produced by disease on the human framescarce any in the art of observing the signs of the change while in progress.

Vast, vaster, vastest, are words as smooth, as fast, faster, fastest; and more vast is certainly as good English as more just: "Shall mortal man be more just than God?"Job, iv, 17.

As that was the time out of which all that is great and good in England and America has proceeded, in letters and in arms, in religion and in politics, we can easily understand how vast must have been the change, had not the winds of the North been so unpropitious to the purposes of the King of the South.

Ah, sore may be the struggle, and vast may be the cost; But yet no tie of love must keep you now, or all is lost.

So vast was the door of steel.

So vast was the procession that it was half-past three in the afternoon before the detachment of Royal Guards which closed it took up their position.

So vast was the treasure that the three men stood tongue-tied with amazement at their good fortune.

I will here mention that a little way up the hill, on the road leading from Rosthwaite to Stonethwaite (in Borrowdale) lay the trunk of a Yew-tree, which appeared as you approached, so vast was its diameter, like the entrance of a cave, and not a small one.

Lobo, a Jesuit priest, writing in the seventeenth century, tells us that so vast was the commerce of Jeddah, and so great the value of the ships trading to that place, that when, in India, it was wished to describe a thing of inestimable price, it was customary to say, 'It is of more value than a Jeddah ship.'