Brobdignagian

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The room is empty, but for three Brobdignagian bouquets of white roses.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2018

Could we possibly expect, that Gulliver should love the Brobdignagian wasp that buzzed round his cake, and prevented him from eating his breakfast?

From Practical Education, Volume I by Edgeworth, Maria

I would as soon undertake to measure the difference between the height and bulk of the giant Gargantua and his Brobdignagian Majesty, as the difference of merit between my writings and Swift’s. 

From Dialogues of the Dead by Morley, Henry

A two-franc tree, had Grand'mere possessed one, would have been Brobdignagian and pretentious.

From A Versailles Christmas-Tide by Boyd, A. S.

One is reminded of Gulliver's accident in the Brobdignagian cream-pot.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Gilfillan, George