He left five hundred treatises, most of them relating to some branch of medical science, which give him the name of being one of the most voluminous of authors.

Leavitt as a source of information regarding the missing Farquharson seemed preposterous when one reflected how out of touch with the world he had been, but, to my astonishment, Major Stanleigh's clue was right, for he had at last stumbled upon a man who had known Farquharson well and who was voluminous about himquite willingly so.

They were, however, too voluminous for these pages.

In the Hastings speech he complimented Gibbon as a 'luminous' writer; questioned on this, he replied archly, 'I said vo-luminous.' I cannot afford to be voluminous on Sheridan, and so I quit him.

In the hands of so skilful an operator, its slender body flutters voluminous with new folds of inexpensive cotton, and its eyes glare with the baleful terrors of unlimited tallow.