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brobdingnagian

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Two years at the strategic consultancy Marakon helped her retire some Brobdingnagian student loans.

I never ceased marveling at the pluck with which this Lilliputian tackled life in the midst of such Brobdingnagian surroundings.

He told her about Texas, at length and in detail, being a true son of that Brobdingnagian state.

From a point near the top a gigantic baobab tree towered up against the skyline like a Brobdingnagian cabbage.

The men seek no relaxation from their business occupations save in Brobdingnagian dinners and suppers.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL

But then she had carried him off between her finger and thumb, so to speak, as the Brobdingnagian ladies carried off Gulliver.

SEPTIMUSWILLIAM J. LOCKE

It is something like the bonnet of a Brobdingnagian Quakeress, huge and flapped and battered, and fearful to look upon.

Then Mr. Hamilton Gibson showed me some monster drawings of flowers—Brobdingnagian ones.

EYE SPYWILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON

She sent in to his office little perfumed notes, directed by the fair hand of Felicia in Brobdingnagian characters.

The black spiral reached from hand to elbow; when he withdrew his arm the club poker was a Brobdingnagian corkscrew.

THE PRESIDENTALFRED HENRY LEWIS

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985