brobdingnagian

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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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This marrying of trick and conventional photography is still going on, but the available samples indicate that the illusions work�wondrous conjurer's tricks performed on a brobdingnagian scale.

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Since then, South Viet Nam's military machine has grown to brobdingnagian proportions.

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In the oil game everything from supertankers as long as three football fields to offshore drilling rigs as tall as the Empire State Building is brobdingnagian.

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The imperial sailors were distinguished by their uniforms of a large blue and white check, suggesting the pinafores of a brobdingnagian baby.

From Rezanov by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn