Giants

Examples

• The Bell Company fought alone against the Western Union, and it was a struggle of giants. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Raphael, Angelo, Canova--giants like these gave birth to the designs, and their own pupils carved them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• If old Father Fritz had seen the pair of ye, I think he would have insisted upon the marriage, so as to breed a race of giants. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There may be giants and dwarfs,' the first peasant said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The turf was verdant, the gravelled walks were white; sun-bright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the roots of the doddered orchard giants. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I say, there were giants on the earth in those days--giants that strove to scale heaven. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A race of gods or of giants must have inhabited Baalbec many a century ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Chicago White Sox were winning the American League pennant and the New York Giants were leading the National League. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Then, suddenly, the jungle giants whipped back, lashing their mighty tops in angry and deafening protest. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Of these latter, Thomas Alva Edison is one, but in the pages of history he stands conspicuously pre-eminent--a commanding towering figure, even among giants. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Nature there is totally confounded, and nothing mentioned but winged horses, fiery dragons, and monstrous giants. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• If I am a plaything for you giants, be gentle with me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The Labour of Men and Beasts now Done by Steam Giants. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

Editor: Nancy