Literary notes about Extensive (AI summary)
The word “extensive” is employed in literature to evoke a sense of great magnitude or comprehensive scope, whether describing a sweeping natural landscape, an elaborate intellectual network, or a complex physical structure. It appears in narratives to portray vast territories or detailed architectural expanse, as seen when describing a boundless forest or plain [1, 2, 3, 4] and a magnificent city or domain [5, 6, 7]. At the same time, it qualifies the breadth of one’s knowledge or connections, underscoring how thoroughly a subject has been explored or a network has been forged [8, 9, 10]. Even in technical or descriptive passages, “extensive” communicates intricate detail, highlighting the depth and diversity inherent in the subject matter [11, 12].
- Thereupon Hidimva replied, ‘This extensive forest that thou seest, of the hue of blue cloud, is the abode of a Rakshasa of the name of Hidimva.
— from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 - There was no other dwelling near, in that direction; and the prospect it commanded was very extensive.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - Horses are Said to be found wild in maney parts of this extensive plain Country-.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - The fertile spot in the midst of this desert, is not extensive; for where it stretches into its greater expanse, it is only about forty stades broad.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian - It probably had its name from Campania, of which it was the capital, and which was so called from its extensive campi or plains.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny - The wealth of the Merovingian princes consisted in their extensive domain.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - 2331 Extensive remains of it are still to be seen; but the modern town of Theba or Stiva stands only on the site of its ancient Cadmea or citadel.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny - If I were engaged in any high undertaking or design, fraught with extensive utility to my fellow-creatures, then could I live to fulfil it.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Both were stalwart Republicans, possessing the confidence of DeWitt Clinton and an extensive acquaintance among local party managers.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - To permit his being blind to the fallacy of this belief, his knowledge was too extensive, his understanding too solid and just.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. Lewis - It is an elaborate and extensive bony structure, composed of no less than twenty bones of different shapes and sizes.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton - But it started one or two hundredths of a second later when the more extensive movement was the one to be made.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James
