What is "capacious"

Usage examples of "capacious".

Blyth, and Zack, till her vast country bonnet trembled aguishly on her head, the good woman advanced, shaking every moveable object in the room, straight to the tea-table, and enfolded Madonna in her capacious arms.

She replaced the receiver, picked up her capacious knitting bag, gave her hat brim a final pat in front of the mirror, and swung the wooden shed door to without noticing Asey standing outside.

The Dewan half guessed what was in the air, but he blinked his big eyes solemnly, and reaching for a small lacquer box took from it a Ran leaf, with a finger smeared some ground lime on it, and wrapping the leaf around a piece of betel-nut popped it into his capacious mouth.

Torrance was at the head, looking a little less filthy and disgusting than earlier in the day, wearing a green-and-orange kaftan, belted across his capacious belly.

Almost dropping the precious pickle jar, she pushed the safe quickly shut, shoved the picture of Lucky Looey back over it, and then, clutching the serum to her capacious breast, took off.

Malvern popped the datastorage and slipped the honey-colored hockey puck into his capacious scabbing vest.

They wheeled him into the capacious emergency room, selecting a cubicle in the corner.

Into the capacious bowl-like vase I sprang with ease, and scarcely had I settled down within it than I heard a number of people enter the apartment.

Old Tabaret had just thrust one of the letters into the depths of his capacious pocket, when the advocate returned.

The pilot had wonn a crown of sorts: an ellipse of gold studded with gems half-covered its long, capacious skull.

As a vessel with no regular ports of call, with only very limited passenger accommodation and capacious cargo holds that were seldom far from full, the s.

He had already, at the foot of the stair, called out to the stout patronne, a lady who turned to him from the bustling, breezy hall a countenance covered with fresh matutinal powder and a bosom as capacious as the velvet shelf of a chimneypiece, over which her round white face, framed in its golden frizzle, might have figured as a showy clock.

The late caravaner had said it possessed capacious cisterns, fed by both springlets in the mountains around it and the infrequent rainfall.

She checked the capacious pockets of the talma, settled it over her shoulders, and twisted her long brown hair into a knot at the nape of her neck, pinning it in place.

Brown had left off her heavy paint and now she looked much like a respectable townswoman should, dressed in a fine but practical gown of dark green wool, a fichu firmly tucked into her capacious bosom.