Sentence examples for hefty volume of from inspiring English sources

Self-styled as "the Bishop", his website boasts that he has "a stunning range of skills" and "his address book has been compared with a particularly hefty volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica".

One of the books — an inexplicably hefty volume of Humpty Dumpty — flutters down to Lessmore and guides him to his new home: an idyllic country house which is made of and occupied by books.

The sometimes muddled writing in "Morningside Heights" is surprising, given the clean prose of Mendelson's first book, "Home Comforts," a hefty volume of nonfiction that provides perhaps the only context in which "entertaining" and "treatise on domestic economy" can correctly be used in the same sentence.

But the public, aware of those credentials, may well be surprised now to find him the author of a hefty volume on the book of Genesis, entitled "The Beginning of Wisdom".

His bons mots were collected in three hefty volumes, of which we just have a few excerpts.

These projects, and the publication of two hefty volumes of complete works, The Charged Void (2002), kept Peter busy up until the moment he collapsed on leaving his office.

Last year, Tomlin published a hefty volume on the Bloomberg tablets.

The "Kalevala" is Finland's national epic, a hefty volume full of voyages, battles and magic, very much like the Scandinavian "Edda," the Anglo-Saxon "Beowulf," the German "Nibelungenlied" or the Indian "Mahabharata".

At well over 700 pages, this is a hefty volume – though just the tip of the iceberg in terms of Hughes's epistolary output – and Christopher Reid deserves much praise for his judicious editing.

The title of this hefty volume is a little misleading.

Biographies of Guevara abound, with Jon Lee Anderson's hefty volume Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life the exhaustive go-to text.