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  • At the sight of a monster of such unsizeable bulk, the fisherman would fain have fled, but was so frightened that he could not go one step.

    The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Anonymous

  • At the sight of a monster of such unsizeable bulk, and from which issued, in as yet unintelligible accents, a Voice which seemed strangely familiar to his ears, the

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, February 4, 1893 Various 1876

  • I am not without hopes that by this method I shall bring some unsizeable friends of mine into shape and breadth, as well as others who are languid and consumptive into health and vigour.

    The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant John Hamilton Moore 1772

  • These have not unsizeable membership numbers and give succor, as a source of real grassroots boots/shoes/slippers on the ground, to Das Partei itself.

    Singapore Angle: Perspectives: Comments 2010

  • And special mention to Alex James, Chancer Extraordinaire, who played rudimentary bass guitar in a mid-90s indie band and who now collects (one presumes) a not unsizeable fee for blathering on in any newspaper which will pay him, underneath a shot of him WEARING A FLAT CAP aaagggh

    Word Magazine - Comments 2008

  • And special mention to Alex James, Chancer Extraordinaire, who played rudimentary bass guitar in a mid-90s indie band and who now collects (one presumes) a not unsizeable fee for blathering on in any newspaper which will pay him, underneath a shot of him WEARING A FLAT CAP aaagggh

    Word Magazine - Comments BrianH 2008

  • And special mention to Alex James, Chancer Extraordinaire, who played rudimentary bass guitar in a mid-90s indie band and who now collects (one presumes) a not unsizeable fee for blathering on in any newspaper which will pay him, underneath a shot of him WEARING A FLAT CAP aaagggh

    Word Magazine - Comments 2008

  • And special mention to Alex James, Chancer Extraordinaire, who played rudimentary bass guitar in a mid-90s indie band and who now collects (one presumes) a not unsizeable fee for blathering on in any newspaper which will pay him, underneath a shot of him WEARING A FLAT CAP aaagggh

    Word Magazine - Comments 2008

  • And special mention to Alex James, Chancer Extraordinaire, who played rudimentary bass guitar in a mid-90s indie band and who now collects (one presumes) a not unsizeable fee for blathering on in any newspaper which will pay him, underneath a shot of him WEARING A FLAT CAP aaagggh

    Word Magazine - Comments 2008

  • _enlarged_, Qualities; and are not _unsizeable_ in the particular

    An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris

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