"Too large" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Perhaps the topic was too large for reply, for Maude's only response was a nervous twisting of her fingers. Sister ...
— The White Rose of Langley - A Story of the Olden Time • Emily Sarah Holt
... Auguste Landois, came from Troyes. Bloated with unhealthy fat, he had too large a head, and was already bald, although only twenty-eight years of age. As he went upstairs with Florent on the first evening, he told him his story in a confused, garrulous way. He had at first come to Paris merely for the purpose of perfecting ...
— The Fat and the Thin • Emile Zola
... that Mrs. Laval's man of business kept her a good while. All that while Matilda kept up her study and search. Nevertheless she was puzzled. It was a question too large for her. All she could make out amounted to this; that she must be careful not to forget whose child she was; that before Mrs. Laval she owed love and obedience to her Saviour; that she must be on the watch for opportunities; and not allow her new circumstances to distract or divert her from ...
— The House in Town • Susan Warner
... will have recourse to the work itself, in which, besides, he will find several circumstances related of another people, the Charaibes, which much resemble what he has now read in the account of the Otaheitans. This note is already too large to admit of their being specified in any satisfactory manner, and it was thought improper to be continually calling off the attention of the reader, from the text, to smaller notes at ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 13 • Robert Kerr
... as if what he must say was too large for his throat. He made a gesture of lament toward Ferry and broke out, "O—oh Smith,"—nearly all Gholson's oh's were groans—"why is he here? The scout is 'the eyes of the army'! a man whose perpetual vigilance at ...
— The Cavalier • George Washington Cable
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