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Bulky   /bˈəlki/   Listen
Bulky

adjective
1.
Of large size for its weight.






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"Bulky" Quotes from Famous Books



... had taken off. A single plane, wet and gleaming under the sobbing heavens, stood on the tarmac, two heavily coated figures before it. Presently three more figures, carrying some bulky black object carefully between them, emerged from one of the buildings. Tenderly they placed this object in the lone plane, which had been stripped of radio outfit and gas bomb compartment to provide room. Then the two original ...
— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various

... soul, flesh, clothes their substance gross refine; Each bulky lout grows light like gossamere; Celestial thrones before ...
— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini

... went ashore, and the first of the cargo was sent off. The weather remained serene and calm, and for the next six days, with the exception of a "sixty-miler" for a few hours and a land breeze overnight, there was nothing to disturb the embarkation of our bulky impedimenta which almost filled the outer Hut. Other work went on apace. The skua gulls, snow and Wilson petrels were laying their eggs, and Hamilton went ashore to secure specimens and to add to our already considerable collection of bird skins. Hunter had a fish-trap lowered from ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson

... mind—and that I may know of—in everything." He looked exceedingly in earnest, and it gave me much pleasure to see and hear him. It was just what a young man should do who had seen so generously treated. As the time had now come, I gave him the bulky letter addressed to him, marked "D" which I had in my safe. As I fulfilled my obligation in the ...
— The Lady of the Shroud • Bram Stoker

... named Stewart Snyder, a competent bulky young man in a gray flannel shirt, a rusty black bow tie, and the green-and-purple class cap, grumbled to her as they walked behind the others in the muck of the South St. Paul stockyards, "These college chumps make me ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis


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