brobdingnagian

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yvonne Younis, 7, lay down on a brobdingnagian desk top, twelve times normal size, beside a ruler in the same scale and found that she is 4 in. tall.

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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.

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He puts his brobdingnagian shoulder to the door and opens it by the hinges.

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They carried brobdingnagian batons, razors, shaving brushes and trident.

From Down Under With the Prince by Duncan, Sara Jeannette