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Volumed   Listen
adjective
Volumed  adj.  
1.
Having the form of a volume, or roil; as, volumed mist. "The distant torrent's rushing sound Tells where the volumed cataract doth roll."
2.
Having volume, or bulk; massive; great.






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"Volumed" Quotes from Famous Books



... ground! Where'er we gaze, around, above, below, What rainbow tints, what magic charms are found! Rock, river, forest, mountain all abound, And bluest skies that harmonise the whole: Beneath, the distant torrent's rushing sound Tells where the volumed cataract doth roll Between those hanging rocks, that ...
— Childe Harold's Pilgrimage • Lord Byron

... had not been able to create a hero of fiction like myself: in fact, had authorship attained such a triumph, the most fastidious maiden would have been obliged to fall in love at first sight, thereby spoiling many a fine three-volumed romance and heroic cantos innumerable. How ruinous would the possession of perfection such as mine have been to the chivalry ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 86, February, 1875 • Various

... rather mediocre gifts who is of some historical importance as the pioneer in a new poetry of nature (1680-1747). He was the first to blend reverent emotion with very minute observation and description. His thesis—as oft reiterated in his many-volumed Earthly Pleasure in God—is that we ought to love nature because it is the wonderful and perfect work of an infinitely wise and good Creator. The selections follow Krschner's Nationalliteratur, ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas

... wisdom, would so fain strike out from among the components of human character, was almost wholly awanting. As the minister of an attached provincial congregation, a sense of duty led him to study much and deeply; and he poured forth viva voce his full-volumed and many-sparkling tide of eloquent idea as freely and richly as the nightingale, unconscious of a listener, pours forth her melody in the shade. But he could not be made to understand or believe, that what so impressed and delighted the privileged few who surrounded him ...
— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller

... fall. Back, Robins, back! Crump, stand aloof! Whitford, keep near the walls! Huggins, regard your own behoof, For, lo! the blazing rocking roof Down, down in thunder falls! An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Conceal'd them from th' astonish'd crowd. At length the mist awhile was clear'd, When lo! amid the wreck uprear'd, Gradual a moving head appear'd, And Eagle firemen knew 'Twas Joseph Muggins, name revered, The foreman ...
— Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum • James and Horace Smith



Words linked to "Volumed" :   volume, equipped, furnished



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