brobdingnagian

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This miracle of miniaturization, which makes the traditional Lord's Prayer engraved on a pinhead seem downright brobdingnagian, can cram 1,000,000 book pages on a stack of 3-in. by 5-in. index cards about 4 in. high.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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Standard engines are no bigger than 425 cu. in., in lieu of the brobdingnagian 500 cu. in. of 1976.

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

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And in the hurrying crowds, swirling and sifting through the brobdingnagian camp of iron and steel, one saw the camp-followers and the pagan women—there would be work to-day and dancing to-night.

From The Turmoil, a novel by Tarkington, Booth