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gargantuan
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  • The bottoms of both feet are covered by gargantuan yellow blisters.†   (source)
  • I start quoting, "A gargantuan sundae for enormous appetites only, featuring thirteen scoops, whipped cream, hot fudge—'" Hana jumps in, "And all the toppings your little monsters can handle!"†   (source)
  • She pulled down a gargantuan brown and yellow Rugby shirt.†   (source)
  • I'm going to shoot that gorgeous gargantuan in the ear.†   (source)
  • They caught up with LuLing and her companion, who were seated on a bench in front of a display of bronze bells hung in two rows on a gargantuan frame, about twelve feet high and twenty-five feet long.†   (source)
  • But only slightly higher, at 19,000 feet, the ropes brought us to the base of a gargantuan, perilously balanced serac.†   (source)
  • The arms were not only Gargantuan and totally obedient and surprisingly quick, but they were also, and this is why he never worried, tireless.†   (source)
  • It's nice and heavy—perfect for you to beat the door down with your gargantuan soldier arms.†   (source)
  • She is gargantuan—at least ten feet tall at the shoulder.†   (source)
  • I felt gargantuan, my head almost brushing the ceiling, my arms dragging past Mrs. Bella to the pins on the floor.†   (source)
  • They were stopped at the gates by gargantuan Berber guards with scimitars and chased away.†   (source)
  • There's plenty of space for me and my gargantuan bags in the spaces between the cars.†   (source)
  • Several students sat under the palms, tossing live fish to a pair of gargantuan seals that had dragged.†   (source)
  • The countryside was beautiful, to be sure, but the beauty was the result of gargantuan mountain ranges rising higher and standing out in sharper relief than the Rockies of the western United States.†   (source)
  • Picket the gargantuan pharmco companies like Itex.†   (source)
  • A gargantuan feat of popular democracy, the likes of which have since vanished from the culture.†   (source)
  • And by the time the rising sun iced the hanging glaciers of Masherbrum pale pink, like a gargantuan pastry dangling above them at breakfast time, Mortenson had agreed to shift the funds his board had approved for the doomed Khane school upside to this village whose headman had traveled so far downriver to educate himself.†   (source)
  • They do if a gargantuan error has been made.†   (source)
  • His gargantuan master had fallen off into drunken sleep during the third game, his goblet slipping from his yellowed fingers to spill its contents on the carpet, but perhaps he would be pleased when he awakened.†   (source)
  • His house is smaller than Trent's but gargantuan by Drake standards.†   (source)
  • His off-the-rack gray suits were always just a little too big for him, though he himself was a big man, six-two or —three, two-twenty but light on his feet, and the effect when he moved toward you with his jacket unbuttoned was that of a gargantuan moth, gliding, fluttering a bit, completely silent.†   (source)
  • The new order was in effect a clearing of the decks for action: the Birkenau facilities, gargantuan as they were, had certain ultimate limitations both spatial and thermal; with their absolute and uncontested priority in the lists of der Massenmord now, the Jews were tendered a sudden unaccustomed exclusivity.†   (source)
  • far as the hill-that-had-fallen-out-of-the-moon; his finger pointed to a strange outcrop of rock that rose like a gargantuan cairn out of the desert, a cairn the base of which was circled by a dark, never-moving shadow.†   (source)
  • As I walked out of the latrine, I informed Mrs. Brown that according to my calculations the young lad, Prophet, did not possess a gargantuan pinky but a pinky of normal proportions.†   (source)
  • A gargantuan brown-shirted official informed the group that there was one lap to go.   (source)
  • After the guests had gone, father threw himself into a chair and gave vent to roars of Gargantuan laughter.   (source)
  • The gargantuan monster trying to crush people on the upper floors turned around and let out a roar.†   (source)
  • In space, the gargantuan sphere shrank until it eventually looked to be the size of a flying star.†   (source)
  • "Aw, man!" said another gargantuan fellow.†   (source)
  • Max stood speechless in the doorway for several moments and gaped at the gargantuan space.†   (source)
  • Even when sitting quietly in his chair, Elias Bram exuded a gargantuan presence.†   (source)
  • Astaroth beckoned playfully at the gargantuan demon as he paused at the final pews.†   (source)
  • Jesper Rasmussen stood at the threshold of an inconspicuous opening next to the gargantuan doors.†   (source)
  • The hermaphrodite stroked the brow of their gargantuan master, pushing back his sweat-damp hair.†   (source)
  • Within seconds, the gargantuan demon had been reduced to a smoldering heap of ashes.†   (source)
  • Max imagined the gargantuan structure extending far below the smooth rock flooring at his feet.†   (source)
  • Despite the arena's gargantuan scale, Max tried to keep his focus upon his opponent.†   (source)
  • As they sailed closer, Max saw the gargantuan demon looming over them.†   (source)
  • The children traversed them slowly: ants on a gargantuan tableau.†   (source)
  • We were playing some Christian school from downtown Birmingham, a team stocked with huge, gargantuan apemen with thick beards and a strong distaste for turning the other cheek.†   (source)
  • Reaching the main doors, she felt the same sense of excitement she always felt upon entering the gargantuan building.†   (source)
  • He sprinted toward the bastion, running on fumes, gazing upward at the citadel's circular core as it shot skyward to a gargantuan, sword-wielding angel.†   (source)
  • Even if Peter just had to pee, he didn't want to do it standing next to some gargantuan twelfth grader who might make a comment about, well, the fact that he was a puny ninth grader, particularly in his nether regions.†   (source)
  • One was a gargantuan man standing beside Duke Perrington, who seemed crafted of muscle and steel—and took pains to display it with his sleeveless armor.†   (source)
  • Carlos recalled being taken, with Michael, to the home of Velma's equally gargantuan twin sister, Thelma, who made them mop out the raw sewage that had spilled into her basement from a burst pipe.†   (source)
  • The gargantuan ship resembled a modified galleon, with brightly illuminated portholes lining its sides at irregular intervals and heights.†   (source)
  • The noise sounded like the fall of a gargantuan foot—like the noise that had shaken our apartment two years ago.†   (source)
  • However, to the right of the gargantuan ornate living-room fireplace was an item that stood out like a decorator's nightmare: a The second contradiction to the decor, and undoubtedly an affront to the memory of the elegant Romanovs, was a heavyset man in a rumpled uniform, open at the neck and stained with vestiges of recent meals.†   (source)
  • The enlisted men descended upon Rome in gangs of twelve or more with Gargantuan appetites and heavy crates filled with canned food for the women to cook and serve to them in the dining room of their own apartment on the sixth floor of a red brick building with a clinking elevator.†   (source)
  • Not only that, but he actually leans over, grabs my gargantuan wheelie bag that has just popped a thousand French kneecaps during its long drag through several train cars, and says, "Let me help you with this."†   (source)
  • Max listened dutifully, his gaze straying occasionally to Scathach or the gargantuan war galleons anchored in and about Rowan Harbor.†   (source)
  • My duties most certainly do not include taking the guise of some gargantuan hag so that your depraved relations can paw at me.†   (source)
  • He napped till lunch and then went shopping for presents for Nurse Duckett and a scarf for the maid in the lime-coloured panties, who hugged him with such gargantuan gratitude that he was soon hot for Nurse Duckett and ran looking lecherously for Luciana again.†   (source)
  • David's voice was growing ever stronger as his mind locked on to each of the spirits that were controlling the gargantuan bodies.†   (source)
  • Gargantuan skeletons of whales and dinosaurs were suspended in glass cases, their mouths yawning wide to reveal fine-combed baleen or six-inch teeth.†   (source)
  • Almost instantly, the gargantuan silver doors began to close in a silent display of seamless machinery David and Astaroth conversed privately throughout, to the Demon's apparent pleasure.†   (source)
  • Vaults were spaced along the main level, gargantuan steel doors set into the stone and protected with various runes and spells.†   (source)
  • I'm not really sure I'm your Max anymore.... The gargantuan selkies promptly shimmied out of the water and basked in the sun on either side of him, as they had when he first arrived at Rowan.†   (source)
  • Whenever Max was able to evade the gargantuan parent and race to the arena's opposite end, its spawn was already in swift pursuit.†   (source)
  • A gargantuan albatross had snatched up the remains of the balloon and ropes in its talons and was breaking their fall.†   (source)
  • A gargantuan pyramid served as the base of the palace, its shape blending gradually into something akin to an enormous replica of the Coliseum.†   (source)
  • Despite the darkness, she was still visible—a gargantuan void among the stars as though a huge, ragged patch had been torn from the night sky.†   (source)
  • He remembered the grisly eye he'd clutched in Cooper's room, and the gargantuan exhibit of a Fomorian he'd glimpsed in the Workshop's museum.†   (source)
  • As the monsters gained leverage, the litter flipped and began to tumble as though the creatures were rolling a gargantuan boulder.†   (source)
  • In the east, the landscape had become a churning vortex of dust, soil, and trees that swirled about in gargantuan funnel clouds that rose thousands of feet before disappearing into the demon's roiling bulk.†   (source)
  • He was seemingly adrift in a sea of trees—gargantuan trees that appeared as though they'd been planted during a forgotten, primordial age.†   (source)
  • Hurrying up the road, they finally got their first glimpse of the guardstones—two gargantuan blocks of granite that were joined so tightly that the door appeared to be little more than an incongruous slab of reddish stone.†   (source)
  • The yellow goop was a thickened form of phosphoroil, and as the waxy, pungent substance was applied to the shells, they began to give off a soft glow, like gargantuan fireflies.†   (source)
  • Possibly because this translation was felicitous and rich, or because Wolfe's lyrical, tragic though optimistic and sweeping vision of America was what Sophie's soul demanded at that moment—she being a newcomer to these shores, with only a rudimentary knowledge of the country's landscape and its gargantuan extravagance—it was Of Time and the River that excited her the most of all the books she read that winter and spring.†   (source)
  • Seated before a roast or a fowl, Gant began a heavy clangor on his steel and carving knife, distributing thereafter Gargantuan portions to each plate.†   (source)
  • He was full of pungent and racy vulgarity: he had, more than any of the family, a Rabelaisian earthiness that surged in him with limitless energy, charging his tongue with unpremeditated comparisons, Gargantuan metaphors.†   (source)
  • But he very early came to know a little of the poetry of Ben Jonson, whom Margaret looked on as a literary Falstaff, condoning, with the familiar weakness of the schoolmarm, his Gargantuan excess as a pardonable whimsy of genius.†   (source)
  • Golding approached, fighting down the resonance of his huge bulk, which transmitted his will as through a gargantuan amplifier, and Nicole, still reluctant, yielded to his reiterated points: that the Margin was starting for Cannes immediately after dinner; that they could always pack in some caviare and champagne, even though they had dined; that in any case Dick was now on the phone, telling their chauffeur in Nice to drive their car back to Cannes and leave it in front of the Café des Alliées where the Divers could retrieve it.†   (source)
  • Even the friendliest English critics seem to be daunted by the gargantuan copiousness of American inventions in speech.†   (source)
  • Brother, you'd be charmed if you could only see Him, and your glee would be ...gargantuan!†   (source)
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