The extinct "great auk" of the North Atlantic coasts was a giant of this race.
No animal, perhaps, is harder to kill; and all turtles have long lives, thegiant turtles of the Galapagos and their kin living more than 100 years.
A similar theory, for which there is geological evidence, may account for the survival of the Galapagos giant tortoises after those of the mainland had died off.
The porbeagles are big, fierce sharks of the family Lamniidae, the giant of which is Rondelet's shark, known to attain a length of more than forty feet.
The cachalot attacks the giant squid whenever it meets one and the marks of the squid's winding arms and cruel suckers are often seen on the hides of whales as scars of some struggle between these Titans of the deep.
So the giant gave him a ram which would coin golden ducats when commanded.
The little man, stepping up to the giant impudently, then announced his master.
This "stripling" jumped from one side to the other so lightly and unexpectedly, and parried each thrust so surely, that presently the giant relaxed a little from the fury of his onslaught.
He had taken a strange liking to this great giant of a man.
By my skin, Locksley," whispered thegiant into his startled ear, "this is a foolish adventure!
They sparred for a minute longer, and then the giant had his chance.
The giant was admitted by acclamation, and then all went back noisily into that hiding-place in Barnesdale which had defied both the ferret eyes of lean-faced Simeon Carfax and the Norman archer Hubert.
The giant carried the unconscious Roger out of the kitchen.
A smooth-faced, beautiful and delicate stripling appeared among the hardy, rough and giant frames who composed the corps to which Jasper belonged.
See that," said Malluch, pointing to a giant of the place.
The giant reflected aloud, "I won five thousand yesterday; from the Roman one--six.
In the deep heart of Kalatope Forest, where the trees fall apart as if by unanimous consent, the natural glade of Kajiar lies like a giant emerald under a turquoise sky.
He had taken the form of a youth of giant stature, and towered at the gilded prow of his boat, which shone like sunlight amid the storm and the darkness.
Still they stand, those giant shrines, well-nigh as perfect as when fresh from the chisels of the old hierophants who shaped and designed them.
For reply the giant motioned them to follow him, and set off up the beach in the direction from which they had recently come.
He could drop twenty feet at a stretch from limb to limb in rapid descent to the ground, or he could gain the utmost pinnacle of the loftiest tropical giant with the ease and swiftness of a squirrel.
With a roar he charged the ape-man, while half a hundred heads peered from sheltering windows and doorways to witness the butchering of the poor Frenchman by the giant black.
From early childhood he had used his hands to swing from branch to branch after the manner of his giant mother, and as he grew older he spent hour upon hour daily speeding through the tree tops with his brothers and sisters.
The man before him was the embodiment of physical perfection and giant strength; yet it was not upon these he depended in his battle with the great cat, for mighty as were his muscles, they were as nothing by comparison with Numa's.
Once a huge black, crazed by drink, had run amuck and terrorized the town, until his evil star had led him to where the black-haired French giant lolled upon the veranda of the hotel.
He is the great white giantwho wore the diamond locket upon his breast.
Jane shuddered and looked fearfully up at the giant figure beside her, for she knew that he meant the great anthropoid he had killed in her defense.
Chapter XXVII The Giant Again A taxicab drew up before an oldfashioned residence upon the outskirts of Baltimore.
At length he came to a great tree, heavy laden with thick foliage and loaded with pendant loops of giant creepers.
Today it was the killing of a giant ape, a member of another tribe, and as the people of Kerchak entered the arena two mighty bulls were seen bearing the body of the vanquished between them.
D'Arnot saw a clean-limbed young giant emerge from the shadows into the firelight and come quickly toward him.
As he turned, the little, mean-faced man drew a revolver from his belt and shot the giant in the back.
One arm was nearly severed by the giant fangs, and a great piece had been torn from his neck, exposing his jugular vein, which the cruel jaws had missed but by a miracle.
A thunderbolt fell, shivering one of the neighbouring trees, as though with the stroke of a giant axe, amidst a great crash of twisted and broken branches.
The facade of the Basilica also showed vaguely, pale as a vision, whilst from it on either side like a pair of giant arms stretched the quadruple colonnade, a thicket of stone, steeped in obscurity.
But even in that hour of the papacy's passing triumph he already felt that the giant of gold and marble on which he stood was oscillating, even as totter all old and rotten societies.
There was here none of the giant ruin full of princely and melancholy grandeur amidst which Cardinal Boccanera so stubbornly remained.
As this thought came to him he turned his head and gazed at the city through the huge window, whence it stretched away, ever present, ever living its giant life.
Could he so have arranged things that the earth should swallow it up, he might have achieved the glory of causing no other death than his own, of dying alone, struck down, crushed to pieces beneath that giant of stone.
There are giant popes of bronze, allegorical figures and angels of equivocal character wearing the beauty of lovely girls, of passion-compelling women with the thighs and the breasts of pagan goddesses!
Then, as he passed the apse of St. Peter's, the enormity of the colossus was brought home to him more strongly than ever: it rose like a giant bouquet of architecture edged by empty expanses of pavement sprinkled with fine weeds.
In all his later legends, for instance, those of them that are related by Philo in his De Gigantibus (a title which proves that Nimrod was connected with the giant race by tradition), he appears as treacherous and untrustworthy.
A champion, To break this beetlinggiant down to death!
A giantof the first enormity requested of his antagonist, Sir Guy of Warwick, a momentary respite for the purpose of slaking his thirst in a neighbouring stream.
Sir Guy, in his turn, was oppressed by heat and fatigue, and requested a similar favour; but the uncourteousgiant refused.
Thus Pandaro the giant in Palmerin of England carried a huge mallet:--but I need not multiply instances.
He was a better specimen of giant than his illustrious namesake who once toured the United States to his great profit.
But high above this paradise of almost tropical exuberance giantglaciers sleep in the summit of the mountain wall, which rises up from a bed of roses.
If you have any delay at Juneau, you will, probably, be asked to take trips to the Giant Glaciers, but my advice is to stay in Juneau until the steamer is ready to start for Dyea.
He went off with him on his back till they got to the stone again when the giant sat down to rest.
The giant came home, and ate up a great supper, and went to bed.
At this, the giant roared like claps of thunder, and began to lay about him with his iron club like one stark mad.
She noticed that before they went to bed the giant put straw ropes round her neck and her sisters', and round his own lassies' necks he put gold chains.
Then the giant was right wild and dashed his brains out on the stone.
Jack, standing by the moat, laughed at him all the while; but though the giant foamed to hear him scoff, and plunged from place to place in the moat, yet he could not get out to be revenged.
The giantcried out again: "Art thou that villain who killed my kinsmen?
After this the giant locked poor Jack in an immense chamber, leaving him there while he went to fetch another giant, his brother, living in the same wood, who might share in the meal on Jack.
But a giant came up to him, and said "I'll carry you over.
In those days the Mount of Cornwall was kept by a huge giant named Cormoran.
The giant had to tread very cautiously to get through all this and meanwhile the young lovers ran on, and on, and on, till they were nearly out of sight.
Before I had time to catch up my load and depart, a touch on my shoulder, so gentle that it would not have hurt a fly, and yet which made me tremble more than if it had been the grip of a giant animal, forced me again to turn.
One or two trees, like giant sentinels, stood near the top, and behind them waved the branches of scores more, while beyond for many a mile spread the dark mass of the thick forest of which I have more than once made mention.
It was a colossal passion in posse, a giant in embryo.
They went out and walked together, the pattern of the air-holes in the top of the lantern being thrown upon the mist overhead, where they appeared of giant size, as if reaching the tent-shaped sky.
He seemed all at once to have grown taller, and to be towering above her like some giant against whose irresistible force it was vain to try and struggle.
A long line of giant beeches bordered the road both on the right and left.
The unchained giant stood with glad smiles, and flaming eyes, and outstretched arms, as if adjuring the spirits of the under-world to come to his assistance.
The faithful grenadier, Gefhart, who had been won over by the princess, had given him the necessary instruments, and through the bars of his prison had conveyed to him such food as would strengthen him for his giant task.
A giant mass of black rock reared itself in the background like a Brobdingnagian bat.
