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.
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By now, Britain's march toward nationalization has led to a state-owned industrial complex of brobdingnagian proportions.
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Mama Cass Elliott, 27, brobdingnagian belter of pop-rock tunes; and Donald von Wiedenman, 27, writer-actor and heir to a Bavarian barony; she for the second time, he for the first; in West Hollywood.
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After Jan. 1, each of the eight brobdingnagian pieces of the old AT&T will sell conventional regulated telephone services but will also be free to venture into certain nonregulated communications fields.
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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 Booth Tarkington
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