Meanings of great tome in anglès

One of the women wrote swiftly in a great tome.

He had come across the great tome while rooting through an old box in the store's basement.

Editor David Pierce was speaking from his home in England before the arrival of the great tome in the bookshops today.

If by chance I fell into an uneasy doze, I found him on waking ever watchful, and poring over the great tome before him.

I write this essay in my fiftieth year, after seeing the movie, Beowulf, and rereading the great tome that was written about fifteen-hundred years ago.

Ask friends who have read the book and they'll possibly sigh and reflect ruefully on the hours they spent trying to complete the great tome.

Many of the great tomes on the shelves fascinated him unutterably, and he felt tempted to borrow them at some later time.

He had made his reputation with two great tomes, Elements of Logic and Elements of Rhetoric, which were widely used as university texts.

To this the great tomes of that gigantic work, the "Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army," bear solid testimony.