Stupendous

Examples

• That stupendous character looked at him, in the course of his official looking at the dinners, in a manner that Mr Dorrit considered questionable. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And the ignorance of people about here is stupendous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I remained in a recess of the rock, gazing on this wonderful and stupendous scene. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I want you to see a stupendous spider I found this morning. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The imposing stupendous bulk of this material has unconsciously influenced men's notions of the nature of knowledge itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was such a stupendous thing to know for certain that she put her hair in papers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You would admire a stupendous fellow, who would have wise opinions about everything. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This, compared with other crop reports, may appear very small, but when considered from the standpoint of the enormous amount of bee labor represented, it is stupendous. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But this stupendous fragmentariness heightened the dreamlike strangeness of her bridal life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It made a stupendous uproar. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Yes, a stupendous work, Gutenberg agreed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The scale on which it sought to construct was stupendous. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The hungers and lusts of mankind have produced some stupendous follies, but the desires themselves are no less real and insistent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is built nearly all of steel, and is one of the most stupendous works of the kind. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The effort was a stupendous failure. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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