"Too large" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... permitted in the carrying trade of more recent years. That she was of the "square rig" of her time—when apparently no use was made of the "fore-and-aft" sails which have so wholly banished the former from all vessels of her size—goes without saying. She was too large for the lateen rig, so prevalent in the Mediterranean, except upon her mizzenmast, where it was no ...
— The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete • Azel Ames
... weight and value. The juries were badly constituted: they had too much to do of an illusory and useless description, and they had too little to do that was solid and instructive. Special mentions, diplomas, half a dozen grades of medals and other honors, formed a programme too large and complicated to be discriminatingly carried out. So it happened that to exhibit and to get a distinction of some kind came, at Vienna, to be almost convertible expressions; and who excelled in the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various
... "It is too large for a farm," said Malinkoff; "it is probably one of those monasteries which exist in such numbers in the ...
— The Book of All-Power • Edgar Wallace
... successfully pursued at the observatory of Dunsink, near Dublin. Annual perspective displacements were by Dr. Bruennow detected in several stars, and in others remeasured with a care which inspired just confidence. His parallax for Alpha Lyrae (0.13") was authentic, though slightly too large (Elkin's final results gave Pi 0.082"); and the received value for the parallax of the swiftly travelling star "Groombridge 1,830" scarcely differs from that arrived at by him in 1871 (Pi 0.09"). His successor as Astronomer-Royal for Ireland, Sir Robert Stawell Ball (now ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
... turn out 150 tons of pig per week, the best of the older furnaces did not produce more than from three to four tons. One of the last extensive contracts executed in Sussex was the casting of the iron rails which enclose St. Paul's Cathedral. The contract was thought too large for one iron-master to undertake, and it was consequently distributed amongst several contractors, though the principal part of the work was executed at Lamberhurst, near Tunbridge Wells. But to produce the comparatively small quantity of iron turned out by the old works, the consumption ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles
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