Example Sentences

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It occurred to O'Neill that she traveled well equipped; there were boxes and baskets in full ampleness.

From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Gibbon, Perceval

Within, as well as from the outside, the effect is one of an ampleness which is not borne out by the actual dimensions, which fact, of course, shows most able design and execution.

From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

Such music must remain in our soul, where, in reality, the genius of those Florentine architects has contrived the satisfying ampleness of their buildings.

From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon

The square flanking chapels of the choir serve to give an ampleness to the ambulatory which is unusual, and in the exterior present again a most interesting arrangement and effect.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

She had grown into her young womanhood with an ampleness that had nothing of oversufficiency in it, nor anywhere a threat that some day there might be too much of her.

From The Conquest of Canaan by Tarkington, Booth