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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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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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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White House aides found two aluminum canoes and filled them with crushed ice to serve as brobdingnagian coolers for the champagne.

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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