There was a book on the lower shelf of the cupboard, a fat volume bound in blue leather.

It deserves a book to itself, and a fat volume it would be when all its innermost secrets are known.

It was a small fat volume with crowded lines of small print, hard to read except in good light, but easily portable.

In the coordinator's office, a mammoth bookcase held 50 fat volumes of contingency plans for the convention.

She patted a fat volume on the towel beside her.

The history of French food alone would have made a fat volume, but excess has pleasures of its own.

She indicated the fat red-and-white volume on her table.

Later, he feared that he would need "three fat volumes" to tell the physicist's story.

The don made his way to a rostrum where a fat volume of a dictionary reposed.

As a result, his band book runs to four fat volumes, more than a thousand items, with plenty of surprises.