Extensive

Examples

• Mr. Weller's knowledge of London was extensive and peculiar. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The acquisition of valuable and extensive property, therefore, necessarily requires the establishment of civil government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Extensive litigation with new-comers followed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The invention and extensive use of bicycles, automobiles, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In 1815 he completed an extensive geological map of England, on which all subsequent geological maps have been modeled. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Oldenburg from Bremen acted as secretary (along with Wilkins) and carried on an extensive foreign correspondence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Mixed up with a very extensive Manich?an literature are translations of the Christian scriptures and Buddhistic writings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Artesian wells are named after the French Province of Artais, where they appear to have been first used on an extensive scale. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But study of cases of success and failure and minute and extensive comparison, helps to seize upon causes. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But their success in this more confined trade was not greater than in their former extensive one. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Even in that direction, owing to the overhanging blades of corn, the view was not extensive. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It seems strange, now, on observing the extensive use that is made of the deposition of metals, that it should have remained so long unapplied after the principle had been known. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• It is a practice, a very extensive practice--and that's all. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Their charity became gradually less extensive, their hospitality less liberal, or less profuse. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Add to this that the nomadic life prevents any great class inequalities or any extensive development of slavery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Useful and extensive as is its use, the broom does not compare in variety and wide application to the _brush_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• On the occasion of this domestic little party, I did not repeat my former extensive preparations. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Field, John Burry--and remains in extensive use as an appliance for which no substitute or competitor has been found. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They ranged from a faint trace of extensive diffuse nebulosity to a nebulous star with a mere vestige of cloudiness. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It was found, however, that the perpendicular pressure of a few inches of water was quite sufficient to force the gas through the mains and small pipes of an extensive range of streets. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Bodies of water greater in amount than is desired to be raised can thus be utilised, and this simple machine has come into very extensive use during the present century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Some of the salt mines in Poland are so extensive that it is said some of the miners spend all of their lives in them, never coming to the surface of the earth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This is an extensive affair of yours; and your remaining here where a man can come for a pound or two, is remarked upon as not in keeping. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There was no other dwelling near, in that direction; and the prospect it commanded was very extensive. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The most extensive application of photo-lithography is in the reproduction of the Patent Office drawings, which amount to about 60,000 sheets weekly. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In so extensive a country as Scotland, however, a tumult in a remote parish was not so likely to give disturbance to government as in a smaller state. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The largest part of gas manufacture, which has become so extensive, embodies the basic idea of the Lowe process. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The prospect in front was more extensive; it commanded the whole of the valley, and reached into the country beyond. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He has very many extensive experiments under way and has nearly 3,000 distinct botanical specimens in his plantation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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