As I wandered about, seeking anxiously for some means of escaping from this trap, I observed that the ground was strewed with diamonds, some of them of an astonishing
size. This sight gave me great pleasure, but my delight was speedily damped when I saw also numbers of horrible snakes so long and so large that the smallest of them could have swallowed an elephant with ease.
'wurm.' We gather that it conveyed originally an idea of
size and power, not as now in the diminutive of both these meanings.
The runt is a bird of great
size, with long, massive beak and large feet; some of the sub-breeds of runts have very long necks, others very long wings and tails, others singularly short tails.
`If I eat one of these cakes,' she thought, `it's sure to make SOME change in my
size; and as it can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.'
Its motion was amazingly rapid, the ladies having hardly discovered that it was moving at all, before the waving light of a flame was discerned, losing its regular shape, while it increased in
size, as it approached.
As Dorothy was no bigger in
size than the grown-up rabbits she had a chance to observe them closely before they noticed her presence.
The bighorn is so named from its horns; which are of a great
size, and twisted like those of a ram.
Before them stood a little man about the same
size as the Munchkins.
At the distance of about thirty miles from Punta Alta, in a cliff of red earth, I found several fragments of bones, some of large
size. Among them were the teeth of a gnawer, equalling in
size and closely resembling those of the Capybara, whose habits have been described; and therefore, probably, an aquatic animal.
'Dear father, I wish for eleven girls exactly like myself in face, figure, and
size.' The father said: 'If it be possible, your desire shall be fulfilled,' and he caused a search to be made in his whole kingdom, until eleven young maidens were found who exactly resembled his daughter in face, figure, and
size.
But the large rivers are full of vessels, and abound with excellent fish; for they seldom get any from the sea, because the sea fish are of the same
size with those in Europe, and consequently not worth catching; whereby it is manifest, that nature, in the production of plants and animals of so extraordinary a bulk, is wholly confined to this continent, of which I leave the reasons to be determined by philosophers.
But come, suppose that I had the power of passing through solid things, so that I could penetrate my subjects, one after another, even to the number of a billion, verifying the
size and distance of each by the sense of FEELING: how much time and energy would be wasted in this clumsy and inaccurate method!