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brobdingnagian

[brob-ding-nag-ee-uhn] / ˌbrɒb dɪŋˈnæg i ən /




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That is the $56 billion scheme for safeguarding the proposed MX system, a brobdingnagian shell game meant to foil a Soviet attack on the missiles.

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Gregory Peck, indomitable as ever, was the leader of a crack World War II commando unit dispatched to destroy a brobdingnagian Nazi artillery unit.

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Beyond the plenitude of sparkling quarterbacks, the scouts are most elated over the number of brutal, brobdingnagian defensive linemen.

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White House aides found two aluminum canoes and filled them with crushed ice to serve as brobdingnagian coolers for the champagne.

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At the farther end which led to the main corridor, Lydie, to her chagrin, caught sight of Lady Eglinton's brobdingnagian back.

From Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy




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