Volumes

Examples

• Gay-Lussac found that two volumes of h ydrogen combined with one volume of oxygen to produce two volumes of water vapor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Volumes of letters and portfolios of testimonials, if you like! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• All those rows of volumes--will you not now do what you used to speak of? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• To every right-feeling person of my own sex, volumes could say no more. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Of the eight volumes already issued, each containing about 350 closely printed pages for half-a-crown, nearly 170,000 copies have been sold within a period of less than three years. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Nearly 300,000 volumes have already been printed of this edition. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Two letters have passed between these parties, letters which are admitted to be in the handwriting of the defendant, and which speak volumes, indeed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The number of volumes at this time in the imperial library was increased, we are told, to 54,000. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Burton's Historical Collections_; they were small chapmen's books, and cheap, 40 volumes in all. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The account of the French taxes, which takes up three volumes in quarto, may be regarded as perfectly authentic. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Air has usually been held to consist of four volumes of nitrogen and one volume of oxygen, with a very small proportion of carbonic acid gas and ammonia. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But what volumes of meaning in them! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Marxian paraphernalia crowds three heavy volumes, so elaborate and difficult that socialists rarely read them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me his shorthand volumes of sermons to set up with, if I would learn shorthand. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• There was a little tottering bench of shabby old volumes outside the door, labelled Law Books, all at 9d. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• While to every age these volumes cannot fail of being deeply interesting, to the young more especially they may be made of invaluable use. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I have no less than two hundred volumes in calf, and I flatter myself they are well selected. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was his Diary--in many locked volumes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I have pointed to my own manuscript volumes, which represent the toil of years preparatory to a work not yet accomplished. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Dr. Prosper Lucas' treatise, in two large volumes, is the fullest and the best on this subject. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• With five volumes you could just fill that gap on that second shelf. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The roof of the chapel did _not_ fly off, which speaks volumes in praise of its solid slating. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He had been put through an immense variety of paces, and had answered volumes of head-breaking questions. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Mix equal volumes of A and B together in small quantities at a time. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• I fancied Jo would send you volumes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• With these words, the man tore the volumes from his grasp, and struck him on the head. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Marx saw what he wanted to do long before he wrote three volumes to justify it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I read it, as I had read the other volumes which had fallen into my hands, as a true history. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The gilt bindings of the seven handsome little volumes caught the old lady's eye. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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