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leviathan
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    Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar.  (source)
    leviathan = sea monster (figuratively)
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    For not by hook or by net could this vast leviathan be caught,  (source)
    leviathan = something exceedingly large
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    But to the Japanese, the swift leviathans were terrifying, inspiring the graffiti that Louie had seen.†  (source)
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    Somewhere beyond that the groaning leviathan that is Zollverein.†  (source)
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    When last he'd seen Lordsport, it had been a smoking wasteland, the skeletons of burnt longships and smashed galleys littering the stony shore like the bones of dead leviathans, the houses no more than broken walls and cold ashes.†  (source)
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    AS WE APPROACH, the complex seems to rise from the snow like a leviathan from the deep.†  (source)
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    We have to neutralize those leviathans.†  (source)
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    Will sensed a stir in Jim's house; Jim, too, with his fine dark antennae, must have felt the waters part high over town to let a Leviathan pass.†  (source)
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    When I read about those solitary leviathans, I feared I had stumbled on an allegory of my own life, that I would spend my life unable to make a connection, unable to find someone attracted by the beauty and urgency of my song.†  (source)
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    And for that he was cast down into the pit with the angels who had taken his side: Belial, and Azazel, and Asmodeus, and Leviathan.†  (source)
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    It lifts whales—huge leviathans and white jellies, what is amorphous and wandering; I detect, I perceive.†  (source)
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    I wish to be a better man than I have been, than I am; as Job's leviathan broke the spear, the dart, and the habergeon, hindrances which others count as iron and brass, I will esteem but straw and rotten wood.†  (source)
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    Thus the sailors of the bold vessels of Columbus, breaking the horizon of the medieval mind—sailing, as they thought, into the boundless ocean of immortal being that surrounds the cosmos, like an endless mythological serpent biting its tail33—had to be cozened and urged on like children, because of their fear of the fabled leviathans, mermaids, dragon kings, and other monsters of the deep.†  (source)
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