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The new volumes of Letters have carried me back to Carlyle, who has always rather repelled me by his noisy voluminousness.

From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by More, Paul Elmer

Great authors often overlay and almost smother their own fame by the voluminousness of their writings.

From Stories of Authors, British and American by Chubb, Edwin Watts

The voluminousness of his Writings is understated there.

From The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 by Legge, James

If voluminousness alone made a man a great writer, we should have to canonize Lord Lytton.

From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert

“Had fever, obliged to be careful,”—this as though explaining the voluminousness of the aforesaid wrapping.

From The Triumph of Hilary Blachland by Mitford, Bertram