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Example sentences for "enormous size"

  • His head was of enormous size, and his huge projecting eyes gleamed with a strange fire of intelligence.

  • The camphor tree grows to an enormous size, a gigantic statue of the Goddess of Mercy in one of the temples at Kamakura being carved from a single camphor log.

  • The other throne, while smaller, is even more richly ornamented; it is incrusted with larger jewels and has a canopy, from the center of which is suspended an emerald of enormous size.

  • The stones used in this temple are of enormous size, and they were probably raised to their positions on scaffolding of earth--this being also the method employed where attempts have recently been made to restore fallen columns.

  • The strawberries are of enormous size, and the gooseberries are as large as pigeon eggs.

  • Bodies decomposing from putridity, generate a quantity of gas, which swells them up to an enormous size, and renders them buoyant.

  • Many genera, the species of which are usually small, here reach an enormous size, and afford, in many cases, the chief animal food consumed by the quadrupeds and human population of that wild and desolate coast.

  • The lines are finally brought home, tearing or breaking blocks of rock, sometimes of enormous size, which are brought on board.

  • One day we came across a wild hog of enormous size, far bigger than any that gave sport to the Tent Club in Bengal.

  • These waggons were sometimes of enormous size.

  • There is no wild "zebu," and some of the breeds are of enormous size.

  • Many of them grow to enormous size, far exceeding any of the baleen whales.

  • Anderson has told me that he had the opportunity of examining the stomachs of two very large elephants, which were perfectly simple, of enormous size; and he was astonished at the extent of mucous surface.

  • Here they often grow to an enormous size, sometimes weighing as much as fifteen or sixteen pounds.

  • In the vicinity of Manchester it is raised to an enormous size.

  • Snakes, lizards and other reptiles abound; spiders of enormous size, tarantulas, &c.

  • Some of the bamboos grow to an enormous size.

  • Some of the edible roots grow to an enormous size, weighing from 50 to 70 lbs.

  • By these means the ulcerated cavity may attain an enormous size, presenting a most disgusting and lamentable spectacle.

  • Occasionally the fungus communicates with a cavity of enormous size, filled with blood, partly coagulated and partly fluid, and from the parietes of which the hemorrhage proceeds.

  • Morbid enlargement, or rather new productions, often attain an enormous size; some have weighed, when recent, upwards of 60 or 70 lbs.

  • They had thrown a great number of their dead into a well, and many lay in the ditch, a melancholy and revolting sight, for the sun had swollen them to an enormous size.

  • On this occasion our shells were very numerous, and of enormous size, many of them thirteen and a half inches in calibre.

  • Some, of enormous size, the least touch would have precipitated upon our heads, and they seemed to have been rolled to the brink for that purpose.

  • My poor legs were as big as drums; my gums swollen to an enormous size; my tongue too big for my mouth; and all I could eat was raw potatoes and vinegar.

  • Toads, too, are numerous, some of enormous size.

  • The megasominae is of an enormous size, as is also the beautiful Inca beetle.

  • When the waters begin to ebb at the end of the rainy season, they form strong stockades across the outlet of the great lagoons in which a number of the larger fish, as well as turtles of enormous size, have taken refuse.

  • His four tusks are of enormous size, especially those of the upper jaw, which are turned completely upwards and bent back, like horns, towards the forehead, which they sometimes even touch.

  • The tail is of enormous size, and covered with long black hair, somewhat like the tail of a horse.

  • The bill is of enormous size, and the bird is fond of clatting the two mandibles together.

  • When a Cat is enraged, its hair stands erect, and its tail swells to an enormous size.

  • Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton.

  • A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

  • The ejected food was in masses of enormous size, larger than any we had yet seen on the voyage, some of them being estimated to be of the size of our hatch-house, viz.

  • Some of these were of enormous size, containing 350 gallons when full, and the work of moving them about the greasy deck of a rolling ship was attended with a terrible amount of risk.

  • The water was literally alive with sharks of enormous size, tearing with never ceasing energy at the huge carcass of the whale lying on the bottom, who had met his fate in a singular but not unheard-of way.

  • The buttresses are of enormous size; and in the angles between them and the walls are set engaged shafts, which run up to and finish under the arcaded eaves-cornices with which the walls are finished under the roof.

  • The metal Rejas are of the same age as the stalls; and there is a fine ancient lectern for the choir, of enormous size, in the centre of the Coro, and two others of more modern date.

  • The bosses at the intersection of the ribs in the nave are of enormous size, and each has a figure or subject.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    asking questions; auld lang; country called; decisive victory; enormous amount; enormous expense; enormous mass; enormous number; enormous numbers; enormous quantities; enormous quantity; enormous size; evidence against; face toward the ground; fully convinced; good prince; great way; horse should; large piece; making machine; naked skin; noble deeds; particular kind; she could; what name; while some