Brobdignagian

But no matter: By 1987, that Brobdignagian statistical span had been reduced, as far as the press were concerned, to "as many as 750,000" jobs.

Boing Boing 2008

The head raised itself, the blocks that formed its neck separating into open wedges like a Brobdignagian replica of those jointed, fantastic, little painted reptiles the

The Metal Monster 2004

You think of Ossian's heroes, of Thor and his hammer, of the Anakim or of the steeple-high Brobdignagian cavalry, and almost expect to hear groans issuing from the colossal trunks that cumber the ground on every side.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

When Sir Thomas Lawrence paints a handsome peeress, he does not contemplate her through a powerful microscope, and transfer to the canvass the pores of the skin, the bloodvessels of the eye, and all the other beauties which Gulliver discovered in the Brobdignagian maids of honour.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 327, August 16, 1828 Various

Brobdignagian dames, nor Apollo himself so beautiful as the ugly mugs of their lumbering kings.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

Never put Lilliputian flowers, in no matter how large a quantity, into Brobdignagian vessels.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

A trip on a muddy river, whose banks are fringed with a leafless forest resembling a huge store of Brobdignagian stable brooms, may be favourable to reflection; but, if description be attempted, there is danger lest the brooms sweep the ideas into the muddy water of dulness.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

"Macbeth" might have brewed their unholy decoctions, or such as the dreadful giants that formed the nightmare of my childhood might have used in preparing those Brobdignagian repasts among the ingredients of which a plump child held the same rank as a crab in ours.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

There is a bookseller's shop at the corner; I almost invariably feel tempted to stop when passing a depôt for literature, especially in a strange place; but on the present occasion a Brobdignagian notice caught my eye, and gave me a queer sensation inside my waistcoat -- "Awful smash among the Banks!"

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

One monster pen might fit a Brobdignagian fist, for it is two feet long, and has a nib one quarter of an inch broad; and there are others so small that no one but a Liliputian lady could use them.

Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Various