Examples include great melt sheets and voluminous plutonic masses of granite, diorite, layered intrusions, anorthosites and monzonites known as sanukitoids.

During the early Victorian decades, voluminous skirts held up with crinolines, and then hoop skirts, were the focal point of the silhouette.

Empire silhouette, Empire line, Empire waist or just Empire is a style in women's clothing in which the dress has a fitted bodice ending just below the bust, giving a high-waisted appearance, and a gathered skirt which is long and loosely fitting but skims the body rather than being supported by voluminous petticoats.

Although neither of the girls claimed to see any fairies, and there were no more photographs, " on the contrary, he saw them everywhere " and wrote voluminous notes on his observations.

He was a voluminous writer of books on Christian ethics, and of popular histories, which were credited with cultivating a popular interest in history.

The third Secretary, known as the Written Secretary, was tasked with the written translations of the Court's business, which were " both numerous and voluminous ".

As scholars were looking for the presumed " complete " and " original " form of the Nights, they naturally turned to the more voluminous texts of the Egyptian recension, which soon came to be viewed as the " standard version ".

An extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success.

Both he and his son were men reported to be fond of literature and achieved great accomplishments, publishing voluminous works.

The moral maxims, which were a constant feature of his writings, were largely drawn upon by Macanus Chrysocephalas, metropolitan of Philadelphia ( middle of the 14th century ), in his Rodonia ( rose-garden ), a voluminous collection of ethical sayings.

Besides the writings mentioned above, he published Conspiracy of Kings, a Poem addressed to the Inhabitants of Europe from another Quarter of the Globe ( 1792 ); View of the Public Debt, Receipts and Expenditure of the United States ( 1800 ); the Political Writings of Joel Barlow were published ( 2nd ed., 1796 ) but much of his speculation never passed beyond his voluminous notebooks, many of which are conserved in Harvard's Houghton Library.

Yet De Quincey's writings were so voluminous and widely-dispersed that further collections followed: two volumes of The Uncollected Writings ( 1890 ), and two volumes of Posthumous Works ( 1891 – 93 ).

The scale in question was vast: the new stations cathédrales were up to three times longer, wider and taller than Métro stations, and hence 20 or 30 times more voluminous.

Two volumes of extracts from his voluminous diary were published by Philip Bliss ( Oxford, 1857 ), and afterwards an enlarged edition in three volumes appeared ( London, 1869 ).

His duties left him plenty of time for magazine work, and for many years his contributions to Blackwood were voluminous, in one year ( 1834 ) amounting to over fifty separate articles.

The characters were played by actors in voluminous fleecy costumes similar to later Sid and Marty Krofft characters such as H. R.

In addition to his voluminous correspondence, Maistre left two books that were published posthumously.

Terry in editing the voluminous Latin Tudor repertoire that Terry and his choir were reviving at Westminster Cathedral.

Numerous representative Croatian linguistic works were published since the end of Communism in 1990, among them three voluminous monolingual dictionaries of contemporary Croatian.

According to Nation Magazine editor Victor Navasky, Stone's journalistic work drew heavily on obscure documents from the public domain ; some of his best scoops were discovered by peering through the voluminous official records generated by the government.

In 1839 he commenced and carried to completion, at a cost of £ 6000, a reprint of the entire miscellaneous and voluminous writings of Thomas Hobbes, which were placed in most of the English university and provincial libraries.

His letters from prison were edited by his son-in-law under the title of Consolations de ma captivité ( 1797 ), and his death was made the subject of a 1834 tragedy by his playwright brother Claude Roucher-Deratte, a voluminous writer.

The writings were so voluminous, they filled a 600 square foot room.

Those of the Pasbul period were as energetic, if not as voluminous as the Inararo eruptions.

The films and the voluminous collection of photographs and paper documents ( mostly from or about avant garde film makers of the 1950-1980 period ) were moved from time to time based on Mekas ' ability to raise grant money to pay to house the massive collection.

As late as 1828 it was stated that many aged persons were still alive who could repeat it, as it had been taught them with their catechism ; and the more widely one reads in the voluminous sermons of that generation, the more fair will its representation of prevailing theology in New England appear.

In the later part of the 19th century, the detailed study of projective geometry became less fashionable, although the literature is voluminous.

This construction was standard for fashionable garments from the 18th century until the late 19th century, and had the advantages of allowing a voluminous skirt to be paired with a close-fitting bodice, and of allowing two or more bodices to be worn with the same skirt ( e. g., a high-necked bodice and a low-necked bodice allowed the same skirt to serve for both daywear and evening wear ).

He was a voluminous writer, his first work to attract attention being the famous " Red Pamphlet ", published at Calcutta in 1857, when the Sepoy Mutiny was at its height.

However, when this new design was then translated into animated form, MYP's artists usually gave him a voluminous cape ; something which neither the new toy, nor the original incarnation of the character ever wore.

Because of the voluminous clouds of oily black smoke they produce when cold, they must be lit outside.

Albert was a voluminous letter writer, and corresponded with many of the leading personages of the time.

This description was included in Book 8 of his voluminous Philippica, which contains a dialogue between King Midas and Silenus, a companion of Dionysus.

Muwaffaq al-Din Muhammad ' Abd al-Latif ibn Yusuf al-Baghdadi (; 1162 – 1231 ), more commonly known as ' Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi or ' Abdallatif al-Baghdadi (), born in Baghdad, Iraq, was a celebrated physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveller, and one of the most voluminous writers of the Near East in his time.

Amort, who had the reputation of being the most learned man of his age, was a voluminous writer on every conceivable subject, from poetry to astronomy, from dogmatic theology to mysticism.

Giovanni d ' Andrea's output was voluminous:

Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, 000 letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.

The most voluminous wood export was lumber, which was produced by hundreds of small sawmills throughout the central and eastern border regions.

Pius II was a versatile and voluminous author, one of the best and most industrious of his period.

Among the famous jurists of the republican period are Quintus Mucius Scaevola who wrote a voluminous treatise on all aspects of the law, which was very influential in later times, and Servius Sulpicius Rufus, a friend of Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Stephen was a voluminous writer.

The legislative history and the voluminous literature which was generated in the course of the enactment and during fifty years of litigation of the Sherman Act give no hint that such was its purpose.

From 1927 to 1939 the " oriental dress " of red fez (" chechia "), blue sash, braided blue jackets with waistcoats and voluminous red trousers was reintroduced as off-duty dress for re-enlisted NCOs and other long service regulars in the Zouave regiments.

Sargent's early enthusiasm was for landscapes, not portraiture, as evidenced by his voluminous sketches full of mountains, seascapes, and buildings.

He struck up a friendship and had voluminous correspondence with Alexis de Tocqueville, who brought him into the foreign ministry while he was foreign minister during the Second Republic.

Hyginus was a voluminous author: his works included topographical and biographical treatises, commentaries on Helvius Cinna and the poems of Virgil, and disquisitions on agriculture and bee-keeping.

If he truly was the author of the five or six long works in Scots which different witnesses ascribe to him, then he would have been one of the most voluminous writers of Early Scots, if not the most voluminous of all Scots poets.

It was also during that period that Mircea Eliade completed his voluminous and influential History of Religious Ideas, which grouped together the overviews of his main original interpretations of religious history.

A gas cape was a voluminous military garment designed to give rain protection to someone wearing the bulky gas masks used in twentieth century wars.

Above all, Garret Fitzgerald was a true public servant ... Long after he departed active politics, Garret continued to contribute to public life through his voluminous writing and scholarship.

Ronsard was the acknowledged chief of the Pléiade and its most voluminous poet.