Tremendous

Examples

• He is a tremendous fellow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His knowledge of magnets was tremendous. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• To meet this condition the Macdonald Spring Motor was invented and from the start proved a tremendous success. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We have described how by Cort's puddling process tremendous labour was imposed on the workmen in stirring the molten metal by hand with rabbles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Not that we would have endangered his safety by any tremendous weather--but only by a steady contrary wind, or a calm. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• What tremendous hazards of loss or gain! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I put up a small plant, but just as I got it started a tremendous storm came up, and every bit of that black sand went out to sea. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I started to carry out the procedure when, upon opening the oil-cup, the steam rushed out with a tremendous noise, nearly knocking me off the engine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The first tremendous impulse of Islam was now spent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Outside we could see, ourselves, that there was a tremendous sea on. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The Gormers have both taken a tremendous fancy to you, and the trip to Alaska is--well--the very thing I should want for you just at present. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• More than once you will find yourself wondering whether there can be guns enough in the world, or fingers enough to press their triggers, to use such a tremendous production of ammunition. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In the age of Pericles scarcely the first stone of our comparatively tremendous cairn of things recorded and proved had been put in place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is such tremendous trifles, not the climbing of mountains and the bridging of chasms, that make the transcontinental line one of the wonders of the ages. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In its history from the first, and in its tremendous associations, it is the most illustrious edifice in Christendom. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There are tremendous sarcasms against a landlord not a hundred miles from Middlemarch, who receives his own rents, and makes no returns. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I have had such a tremendous dream, too--one I shall never forget. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And these are built on a tremendous scale. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A great deal of the tremendous present popularity of motion pictures is due to the invention of the translucent film. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He makes tremendous rows,--roars, and pegs at the floor with some frightful instrument. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In 1847, too, Russia began her tremendous march eastward into Central Asia, just as France was solidifying her first gains on the littoral of northern Africa. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Tremendous, Jos said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In the land they live in that is a tremendous sacrifice to make. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The men-at-arms were daunted, for no armour seemed proof against the shot of this tremendous archer. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The man,' Mortimer goes on, addressing Eugene, 'whose name is Harmon, was only son of a tremendous old rascal who made his money by Dust. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I found a tremendous blank, in the place of that smiling repository of my confidence. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The tremendous problems of heat and the prohibitive quantities of copper that would be required for conductors for such lamps would be absolutely out of the question in commercial practice. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Here again he awakened a tremendous echo. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is at such times as these that his unfailing patience and tremendous resourcefulness are in evidence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• So, for peace or war, the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen has become a tremendous factor in the life of nations. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

Editor: Orville