Gigantic

Examples

• But the key was an instrument of such gigantic proportions, that before they started Riah proposed to carry it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Gigantic attempted Robbery. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Trees gigantic and aged grew near; before the gate I discerned a crowd of moving human figures--with intense curiosity I lifted my glass to my eye. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Presently came ships of iron and steel, vast bridges, and a new way of building with steel upon a gigantic scale. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was to be a picnic on a gigantic scale. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The window was partly open, and a wire led from the machine on the table through the window to a gigantic kite that a high wind kept flying fully 400 feet above the room. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She produced it from her pocket with an air, after struggling with the gigantic door-key which had got upon the top of it and kept it down. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Everything is on so gigantic a scale. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• These curious and interesting structures, which may be considered the forerunners of the gigantic iron Tubular Bridges of the present day, were burnt by the French in 1799. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Here is a task so fine as to be gigantic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was at once clear that a daring and gigantic robbery had been committed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• There were gigantic difficulties in the way of such an undertaking. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• My person was hideous, and my stature gigantic: what did this mean? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• As they drew near, the sailor took one look at the gigantic creature and yelled to the captain: For heaven’s sake, man, don’t harpoon that thing; we will be crushed like an egg shell! Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The gigantic expansion of the iron and steel industry was foreshadowed in the change from wood to coal in the smelting furnaces. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He wanted to make a gigantic gyroscope weighing several tons, to be run by an electric motor and put on a sailing ship. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We shall thus have a thin wall steadily growing upward but always crowned by a gigantic coping. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of exercising enormous pressure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The nervous arm that wielded it, with such a gigantic force on public characters, was paralysed beneath the glance of the imperious Mrs. Pott. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A new gigantic material framework for human affairs has come unto existence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To contemplate the dynamo with its clumsy, enormous spools, it suggests to the imagination of the average observer the gigantic toy of some Brobdingnagian boy--but the dynamo is no toy. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Three balanced cantilevers are employed, poised on four gigantic steel tube legs supported on four huge masonry piers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Yet here the analogy of the animals might have saved Plato from a gigantic error, if he had 'not lost sight of his own illustration. Plato. The Republic.
• Advertising, for example, would be nothing but gigantic and systematic lying if almost everybody didn't know that it was. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He was evidently, though short, of gigantic strength. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The gigantic Front-de-Boeuf, armed in sable armour, was the first who took the field. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his gigantic client. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• That object which actuates and animates me in all my gigantic labours, Sir,' replied Pott, with a calm smile: 'my country's good. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We see the same law in this author's restorations of the extinct and gigantic birds of New Zealand. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• So greatly has the climate of Europe changed, that in Northern Italy, gigantic moraines, left by old glaciers, are now clothed by the vine and maize. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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