brobdingnagian

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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

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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the farther end which led to the main corridor, Lydie, to her chagrin, caught sight of Lady Eglinton's brobdingnagian back.

From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness