Capacious Sentence Examples

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  • The harbour is capacious and secure, with a sufficient depth of water for the largest vessels.

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  • The harbour is land-locked and capacious.

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  • There are capacious docks on the river, which is crossed by a wrought-iron bridge, 1000 ft.

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  • It is situated on both sides of the river Jacatra or Jilivong, in a swampy plain at the head of a capacious bay.

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  • The capacious harbour, consisting of two parts, the old and the new, is protected by extensive moles and breakwaters.

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  • His wide reading and capacious memory enabled him to carry in his mind the materials of a sound historical theology, but these materials were unsifted by criticism.

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  • As in all forest-dwelling animals, the ears are large and capacious.

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  • So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters.

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  • The stomach is simple, the caecum large and capacious, the placenta diffused, and the teats inguinal.

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  • In the cheeks are tolerably capacious pouches, which appear to be used as receptacles for food.

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  • Its deep and capacious bay is sheltered from northerly and north-easterly winds, and the construction of modern harbour works has greatly increased the facilities for trade.

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  • Here, too, are the capacious reservoirs for the water-supply of the town, the source of which is a lake to the south of the island.

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  • Boot is very capacious, with back seat down it's even better, making for a sporty & practical car.

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  • The Italian-made Boston Classic Duffel Bag is a capacious canvas and leather bag with brass accents.

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  • Capacious river harbours have been formed at various points, twenty-nine of these being in Germany and eight in Holland.

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  • The extreme hook of the Cape Cod Peninsula forms Provincetown Harbor, which is an excellent and capacious port.

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  • Iron pipes are the best conductors; they should lead to a capacious open reservoir placed outside the garden, and at the highest convenient level, in order to secure sufficient pressure for effective distribution, and so that the wall trees also may be effectually washed.

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  • The capacious bay, formerly known as the Bay of St Lawrence from a religious house long since demolished, is protected by a sandbank that ends here, and is hence known as the Tail of the Bank.

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  • All along the coast-line there are capacious and well-protected harbours, Casco, Penobscot, Frenchman's, Machias and Passamaquoddy bays being especially noteworthy.

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  • The capacious links bordering the sea between the mouths of the two rivers are largely resorted to for open-air recreation; there is here a rifle range where a "wapinschaw," or shooting tournament, is held annually.

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  • This pre-eminence is due to its excellent dock and harbour accommodation and capacious warehouses.

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  • The most remarkable of their vessels is the "lakatoi," composed of several capacious dug-outs, each nearly 50 ft.

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  • Woody makes use of an old but reasonably capacious plastic horlicks container and I content myself with a modest 1 liter Nalgene bottle.

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  • The rivers of the southern versant are waters of capacious drainage, the basin of the Kahayan having, for instance, an area of z 6,000 sq.

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  • Quilted duffle bags are a great option when you need a more capacious bag but don't want to compromise on looks.

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  • It is capacious and features a magnetic snap closure.

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  • The capacious toe box will allow for bunions, swelling and hammertoes.

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  • A small island, Hog Island, is included in the township. The principal village, also known as Bristol, is a port of entry with a capacious and deep harbour, has manufactories of rubber and woollen goods, and is well known as a yacht-building centre, several defenders of the America Cup, including the "Columbia" and the "Reliance," having been built in the Herreshoff yards here.

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  • With their broad, straight backs, curved ribs, and capacious quarters, they carry a great weight of carcass upon strong, wide-standing legs.

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  • These cilia pass on any diatoms and -_„ other minute organism which come within their range of action to the -_-„ capacious oval mouth, which appears as a mere 10 --- deepening of the gutter in the middle line.

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  • They cannot endure captivity, dying in the course of two or three days, even when kept in capacious tanks.

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  • The intestinal canal is long, and has, in addition to the ordinary short, but capacious and sacculated caecum at the commencement of the colon, lower down, a pair of large, conical, pointed caeca.

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  • The colon is about one-third the length of the small intestine, and very capacious in the greater part of its course.

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  • It is sometimes argued that if these things are true for one country they must be true for another, and that in Great Britain, for example, the use of more capacious cars would bring down.

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  • No sufficient advantage is attained by raising the pressure of the gases above atmosphere, but a capacious vessel is necessary.

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  • The east coast, from Cape Shiriya (Shiriyazaki) in the north, to Cape Inuboye (Inuboes4ki) near Tokyo Bay, though abounding in small indentations, has only two large bays, those of Sendai and Matsushima; but southward from Tokyo Bay to Cape Satta (Satanomisaki) in KiOshi there are many capacious inlets which offer excellent anchorage, as the Gulf of Sagami (Sagaminada), the Bays of Suruga (Surugawan), lie (Isenumi) and Osaka, the Ku Channel, the Gulf of Tosa (Tosonada), &c., Opening into both the Pacific and the Sea of Japan and separating Shikoku and KiQshi from the main island as well as from each other, is the celebrated Inland Sea, one of the most picturesque sheets of water in the world.

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  • It is surprising that they are caught here--that in this deep and capacious spring, far beneath the rattling teams and chaises and tinkling sleighs that travel the Walden road, this great gold and emerald fish swims.

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  • The southern coast in particular is deeply indented; and there two bold peninsulas, extending for several miles into the sea, form two capacious natural harbours, namely, Deep Water Bay, with the village of Stanley to the east, and Tytam Bay, which has a safe, well-protected entrance showing a depth of 10 to 16 fathoms. An in-shore island on the west coast, called Aberdeen, or Taplishan, affords protection to the Shekpywan or Aberdeen harbour, an inlet provided with a granite graving dock, the caisson gate of which is 60 ft.

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