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inspiring fear or worthy of respect- His bristled with ten iron beaks, so that Jehan could have disputed with Nestor's Homeric vessel the redoubtable title of ~dexeubolos~.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- He told it was relish for he was delighted that someone had the courage to face down his redoubtable daughter-in-law.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- Meanwhile she folds up a cocked hat for that redoubtable old general at Bath, descriptive of her melancholy condition.Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
- Berserker was a redoubtable hero in Scandinavian mythology, the grandson of the eight-handed Starkodder and the beautiful Alfhilde.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- The redoubtable Lady Tarbeck responded by capturing three Lannisters, including young Stafford, whose sister was betrothed to cousin Tywin.George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- There must be something, somewhere, large and grand and redoubtable enough to justify this shining reliance and implicit belief.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- It is said this Fremen force already had captured the Duke's redoubtable Thufir Hawat.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- They remain, I suspect, a redoubtable seduction tool.Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
- In the mean time, the children of Esther were true to the spirit they had inherited from their redoubtable mother.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
- To the youth it was an onslaught of redoubtable dragons.Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage
- And Yohn Royce, mightiest of them all, the redoubtable Bronze Yohn, Lord of Runestone, Nestor's cousin and the chief of the senior branch of House Royce.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- In this terrible moment when she faced ruin, my mother was confronted by a redoubtable enemy.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
- It was one of those moments when he was exercising without control, but subject to all the scruples of a severe conscience, his redoubtable discretionary power.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- Tonight we welcome in, our midst the famous King Pellinore, whose labours in riddin' our forest of the redoubtable Questin' Beast are known to all-God bless King Pellinore.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.Jack London -- White Fang
- These two kings, and the Spanish king, being assembled to witness and judge the conflict, the French champion appeared; but so redoubtable was he, that our English knights refused to measure weapons with him.Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- Why, what the dickens has come to the fellow?" said the old gentleman, as Laurie came running downstairs and brought up with a start of surprise at the astounding sight of Jo arm in arm with his redoubtable grandfather.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- If the latter, gratitude must close our mouths; but if the former, both Cora and I shall have need to draw largely on that stock of hereditary courage which we boast, even before we are made to encounter the redoubtable Montcalm.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
- You, farmers, agricultural labourers! you pacific pioneers of a work that belongs wholly to civilization! you, men of progress and morality, you have understood, I say, that political storms are even more redoubtable than atmospheric disturbances!Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- But I learned at my expense that Father believed there was another animal even more dangerous than us, and one that was extremely common, too, found on every continent, in every habitat: the redoubtable species Animalus anthropomorphicus, the animal as seen through human eyes.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
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