That position pressed the forearm against the biceps and the big muscles bulged out on either side, vast as the thigh of a strong man.

Thus, evidence which cannot be rebutted, and which need not be strengthened, though if time permitted I might indefinitely increase its quantity, compels you to believe that the earth, from the time of the chalk to the present day, has been the theatre of a series of changes as vast in their amount, as they were slow in their progress.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.

He was a warrior, with him I killed Khumbaba, Elam's king who safely dwelt Within a forest vast of pines, and dealt Destruction o'er the plains.

It disappeared, and then, very much further down, something moved, first like a shadow, then like a great, dark form; and as it came up higher it took the shape of a man, but dim and vast like a man-shaped cloud or shadow that floated in the green translucent water.

The vault above Roswell was sparkling with orbs floating in space, most of them far more vast than this earth, and each of them doubtless having its present or destined use.

It is vast without being really great, magnificent without touching the heart, proudly but not harmoniously ordered.

A dark cloud had sprung up in the south-west, far off as yet, and near the horizon; but its fringe already touched and obscured the low-hanging sun, and a shadow flew far and vast before it.

Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet, we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the meanwhile, wast blending with my thought, Yea, with my life and life's own secret joy; Till the dilating soul, enwrapt, transfused, Into the mighty vision passingthere As in her natural form, swelled vast to Heaven!

MARMADUKE (alone) MARMADUKE Deep, deep and vast, vast beyond human thought, Yet calm.

But at length the bees mustered in such vast numbersfor those away gathering honey, as they returned, joined in the attackthat the bears became wild with pain and fear, and had to give up their effort and drop to the ground.

He is the true taxer who "calleth all the world up to be taxed:" and the distance is as vast between him and one of us, as subsisted betwixt the Augustan Majesty and the poorest obolary Jew that paid it tribute-pittance at Jerusalem!His exactions, too, have such a cheerful, voluntary air!

The shadow of the fiend's expanded wings fell black and vast on the fiery sand, but diminished and became invisible as he soared to a prodigious height, to escape observation from below.

but vast out of a cleft in the earth.

Etna gleamed white and vast over the shoulder of the ravine, and, as I dipped down, was gone.

And, as the young man paused abrupt, his gaze Upon a veil'd and giant IMAGE fell: Amazed he turn'd unto his guide"And what Towers, yonder, vast beneath the veil?" "THE TRUTH," Answered the Priest.

He stood there looking vast against the night.

Save when to yonder hall they bend their way, Where the grave justice ends the grievous fray; He who recites, to keep the poor in awe, The law's vast volumefor he knows the law: To him with anger or with shame repair The injured peasant and deluded fair.

Mingling with the clouds, and sometimes rising above them, were the highest mountain heads, and as our eyes wandered from peak to peak, onward to the remote horizon, space itself seemed more vast from the manner in which the objects which it held were distributed....