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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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