It was a long time before the ancients received credit for their stories of showers of stones; and all were ready to joke with Butler, at the story of the Thracian rock, which fell in the river Aegos: "For Anaxagoras, long agon, Saw hills, as well as you i'th' moon, And held the sun was but a piece Of red hot iron as big as Greece.

It grew no bigger than a pea, and I looked, with my whole soul, to witness the final end of our Systemthat system which had borne the world through so many aeons, with its multitudinous sorrows and joys; and now Suddenly, something crossed my vision, cutting from sight all vestige of the spectacle I watched with such soul-interest.

Her first impression was that he was too big for the room, her second that he was very handsome, and also a little agitated.

I don't know why, but even then the affair seemed big with mystery, with the portent of tragedy.

They walked on to the biggest of the underground dwellings.

We would not think that was a very big building, but it was the biggest in the village.

It doesn't matter to your stomach whether you're big up and down, or big to and fro.

Father Shannon is rather big about the middle to accommodate the large laugh that lives in him, but a most shrewd searcher of hearts.

He swears big at an ordinary, and talks of the court with a sharp accent; neither vouchsafes to name any not honourable, nor those without some term of familiarity, and likes well to see the hearer look upon him amazedly, as if he said, How happy is this man that is so great with great ones!

"Probably bigger by now," put in Tweaty, realizing what was happening.

The consuls understood the orders of the senate, but saw none of those who talked so big within the walls of the senate-house present themselves to share the odium they would incur.

"They're big on boats at Pilgrim Atlantic.

'Ah! innocent creatures,' I said, 'think you a man of his sense and goodness, giving his thousands to the sick and afflicted, will cease to love his only son because he is not big like a horse or quarrelsome like a dog?

So he went on collating, comparing, writing, and the heap upon his table grew bigger under his hands.

Their arms were about of a length, but Harris was big through the chest and his arms seemed more powerful than Jack's.

I wasn't so very big before the war.

"Hey Haught," panted the miner, "hev you seenyour gray burrothet big onewith white face?

We had only one place to bathe the men in, then: a big tankfor everything was improvised and there was no hot-water heaterand one of the doctors told him he could use his own bath up-stairs, but he said no, he'd stay with his men.

The chief's going to give you your big chancewith me.

It doesn't matter to your stomach whether you're big up and down, or big to and fro.

"Cove is pretty big after all the rain," Bert said.

The mountain sheep were nineteen in number, for the most part does and yearlings with a couple of three-year-old rams, but not a single big fellowfor the big fellows at this season are off by themselves, singly or in little bunches, high up in the mountains.

One whose tongue is strung up like a clock till the time, and then strikes, and says much when he talks little:that can see the truth betwixt two wranglers, and sees them agree even in that they fall out upon:that speaks no rebellion in a bravery, or talks big from the spirit of sack.

He made de tasks bigger en de rashuns littler, en w'en de niggers had wukked all day, he 'd fin' sump'n fer 'em ter do roun' de ba'n er som'ers atter da'k, fer ter keep 'em busy a' hour

And, indeed, as I did perceive, I was come to an upward sea of fire, as it were the deep inwards of a low and utter monstrous volcano, that was flat of the top and utter big across.