Sentence examples for vast legs from inspiring English sources

There were vast legs of stone all around, vaulted caverns lit by shafts of sunlight coming through blowholes far above.

Somehow, Shelley's "two vast and trunkless legs" are more impressive.

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said— 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.

Ozymandias  I met a traveller from an antique land Who said – 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.

The "vast and trunkless legs" could as well belong to the famously corpulent Prince Regent, holding lavish banquets in Carlton House while the poor scraped and starved; the "sneer of cold command" would suit any of the raging, gorging, hell-hound-loosing rulers depicted in "Queen Mab", Shelley's radical and youthful outpouring of 1813.

To say that India is a country of extremes is the most obvious of truisms, but the huge, blue-glass, expensively chilled Ambience mall, (so vast that your legs ache walking from one side to another, with such high ceilings that it can accommodate a fairground on the fifth floor, and so tall that shoppers can do bungee jumping in the atrium) is centuries removed from the deprivation of Tonk.

Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

"I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.

When Biel eventually arrives – 25 minutes late and not a hint of an apology – she sits opposite me on a vast sofa, crossing one leg over another.

A startled great blue heron lifted off, its long legs dangling, its vast wings beating slowly.

The V.I.P. Lounge at the stadium in Tigre was a vast assemblage of artfully crossed legs, tight shirts, half-eaten finger sandwiches and Argentine celebrities on the lookout for other Argentine celebrities.