brobdingnagian

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

So one does, judging by the brobdingnagian baubles designed by Marsten's firm, appropriately named Caveat Emptor.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is the $56 billion scheme for safeguarding the proposed MX system, a brobdingnagian shell game meant to foil a Soviet attack on the missiles.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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