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formidable
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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- Nevertheless, he began to grow impatient with Coppenole's behavior, and suddenly turned towards him with so formidable a gnashing of teeth, that the Flemish giant recoiled, like a bull-dog before a cat.†
Chpt 1.1.5formidable = intimidating or impressive
- The formidable Quasimodo had hurled himself from the litter, and the women turned aside their eyes in order not to see him tear the archdeacon asunder.†
Chpt 1.2.3 *
- It was the formidable visage of Quasimodo.†
Chpt 1.2.4
- But by night he was deprived of his most formidable weapon, his ugliness.†
Chpt 1.2.4
- The harangue was formidable.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- In the midst of this Round Table of beggary, Clopin Trouillefou,—as the doge of this senate, as the king of this peerage, as the pope of this conclave,—dominated; first by virtue of the height of his hogshead, and next by virtue of an indescribable, haughty, fierce, and formidable air, which caused his eyes to flash, and corrected in his savage profile the bestial type of the race of vagabonds.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- No hope was left for him, accordingly, unless it were the slight chance of succeeding in the formidable operation which was imposed upon him; he decided to risk it, but it was not without first having addressed a fervent prayer to the manikin he was about to plunder, and who would have been easier to move to pity than the vagabonds.†
Chpt 1.2.6
- Beneath them, at the foot of the formidable edifice, behold the Porte Sainte-Antoine, buried between its two towers.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- The towers, on whose exterior surface he was frequently seen clambering, like a lizard gliding along a perpendicular wall, those two gigantic twins, so lofty, so menacing, so formidable, possessed for him neither vertigo, nor terror, nor shocks of amazement.†
Chpt 1.4.3
- Then, suspended above the abyss, borne to and fro by the formidable swinging of the bell, he seized the brazen monster by the ear-laps, pressed it between both knees, spurred it on with his heels, and redoubled the fury of the peal with the whole shock and weight of his body.†
Chpt 1.4.3
- There were no great proofs of sorcery in that, after all, but there was still enough smoke to warrant a surmise of fire, and the archdeacon bore a tolerably formidable reputation.†
Chpt 1.4.5
- Nevertheless, if the desire possesses you of putting yourself under discipline at your age, and of deciphering the formidable alphabet of the sages, come to me; 'tis well, I will make the effort.†
Chpt 1.5.1
- Hé, but now, what is there so formidable in this: 'GLOSSA IN EPISTOLAS D. PAULI, ~Norimbergoe, Antonius Koburger~, 1474.'†
Chpt 1.5.1
- The gypsy was dancing; she was twirling her tambourine on the tip of her finger, and tossing it into the air as she danced Provençal sarabands; agile, light, joyous, and unconscious of the formidable gaze which descended perpendicularly upon her head.†
Chpt 2.7.2
- at every blow dealt by the formidable rabbi, from the depths of his cell, upon this nail, that one of his enemies whom he had condemned, were he a thousand leagues away, was buried a cubit deep in the earth which swallowed him.†
Chpt 2.7.4
- I possess the hammer and the nail, and in my hands they are utensils no more formidable than a club in the hands of a maker of edge tools.†
Chpt 2.7.4
- This was a formidable exordium.†
Chpt 2.7.4
- And even couldst thou have broken through that formidable web, with thy gnat's wings, thou believest that thou couldst have reached the light?†
Chpt 2.7.5
- At that moment he heard a powerful and sonorous voice articulate behind him a formidable series of oaths.†
Chpt 2.7.6
- The priest gazed at her with the eye of a hawk which has long been soaring in a circle from the heights of heaven over a poor lark cowering in the wheat, and has long been silently contracting the formidable circles of his flight, and has suddenly swooped down upon his prey like a flash of lightning, and holds it panting in his talons.†
Chpt 2.8.4
- Suddenly, at the moment when the superintendent's assistants were preparing to execute Charmolue's phlegmatic order, he threw his leg over the balustrade of the gallery, seized the rope with his feet, his knees and his hands; then he was seen to glide down the façade, as a drop of rain slips down a windowpane, rush to the two executioners with the swiftness of a cat which has fallen from a roof, knock them down with two enormous fists, pick up the gypsy with one hand, as a child would her doll, and dash back into the church with a single bound, lifting the young girl above his head and crying in a formidable voice,— "Sanctuary!"†
Chpt 2.8.6
- Was he giving final battle to his formidable passion?†
Chpt 2.9.5
- One evening when the curfew was sounding from all the belfries in Paris, the sergeants of the watch might have observed, had it been granted to them to enter the formidable Court of Miracles, that more tumult than usual was in progress in the vagabonds' tavern, that more drinking was being done, and louder swearing.†
Chpt 2.10.3
- The King of Thunes ran boldly to the formidable beam, and placed his foot upon it: "Here is one!" he exclaimed; "'tis the canons who send it to you."†
Chpt 2.10.4
- Before a second assailant could gain a foothold on the gallery, the formidable hunchback leaped to the head of the ladder, without uttering a word, seized the ends of the two uprights with his powerful hands, raised them, pushed them out from the wall, balanced the long and pliant ladder, loaded with vagabonds from top to bottom for a moment, in the midst of shrieks of anguish, then suddenly, with superhuman force, hurled this cluster of men backward into the Place.†
Chpt 2.10.4
- He found himself in the gallery with the formidable bellringer, alone, separated from his companions by a vertical wall eighty feet high.†
Chpt 2.10.4
- The oath was formidable; Louis XI.†
Chpt 2.10.5
- The mother gazed at the soldiers in such formidable fashion that they were more inclined to retreat than to advance.†
Chpt 2.11.1
- He clung to it with desperate hands, and, at the moment when he opened his mouth to utter a second cry, he beheld the formidable and avenging face of Quasimodo thrust over the edge of the balustrade above his head.†
Chpt 2.11.2
- At the end of the fifteenth century, the formidable gibbet which dated from 1328, was already very much dilapidated; the beams were wormeaten, the chains rusted, the pillars green with mould; the layers of hewn stone were all cracked at their joints, and grass was growing on that platform which no feet touched.†
Chpt 2.11.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(formidable) intimidating or impressive -- arousing fear or admiration due to impressiveness or challenge
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)