For the gigantic young mongrel was worth cultivating.
Almost before the smitten mongrel could shriek forth his agony and fear, before the toppling gigantic body could crash to the ground, the fierce-grinding jaws had met in the centre of the thing they gripped.
Out from the bushes had sprung a gigantic lean dog, jet black except for a zig-zag patch of white on one shoulder.
They went on and on through the obscurity in comparative silence now, Nic feeling as if he were being led always by that black shadow of a gigantic man, beyond which there was a faint glow.
The boy is described as a shepherd on the hills of Down, and there is a legend, well told, of the angel Victor coming to him, and leaving a gigantic footprint on a rock from which he sprang back into heaven.
A battle in which both armies were hidden in thickets and forests, impenetrable to vision, each making gigantic efforts for the overthrow and destruction of the other.
Never during the war had the two armies made such gigantic struggles for the destruction of each other.
They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold.
The completion of the gigantic undertaking in 1869 at Ogden, Utah, was gayly celebrated.
Morgan was of gigantic stature, vast physical strength, and wonderful powers of endurance.
The glacier was like a gigantic plough driving irresistibly towards the sea.
Pack-ice might be described as a gigantic and interminable jigsaw-puzzle devised by nature.
We waited for the next move of the gigantic forces arrayed against us.
Skirting the base of the mountain above us, we came to a gigantic bergschrund, a mile and a half long and 1000 ft.
But the king would not make over to him, even for hundreds of crores of gold pieces, that thief who had robbed on such a gigantic scale, and whom he had captured at the risk of his own life.
Gigantic birds that feed on raw flesh are mentioned by the Pseudo-Callisthenes, Book II, ch.
And when she entered, she did not perceive that beloved king anywhere, but she beheld fivegigantic golden figures of men.
They had up-standing hair, yellow as the flames vomited forth from their mouths terrible with tusks, gigantic bodies black as smoke, and pendulous breasts and bellies.
I have an instrument for reaching it, this gigantic bird given me as a means of conveyance.
From this point I saw below me the gigantic outline of the Coliseum, like a cloud resting upon the earth.
He looks much like a gigantic salamander, and his broad, soft feet make deep impressions in the yielding mud.
After reaching the little cove of Canty Bay, overlooked by the gigantic ruins of Tantallon Castle, we were ferried across to the Bass; through a few miles of that capricious sea, the Firth of Forth, near to where it joins the German Ocean.
The tools were made according to Mr. Humphries' order; they were delivered and fitted to his entire approval, and the construction of the gigantic engines was soon in full progress.
To my surprise every one engaged in this gigantic and refined metal work was a serf.
He was seen in violent action, beating or hammering on the keys of a gigantic pianoforte-like apparatus.
On the night before the arrival a gigantic bonfire on Arthur's Seat lit up with a tremendous blaze the whole city, as well as the surrounding country.
I made my way by tortuous walking round the erupted masses of lava, and also by portions of the lava streams, which, on losing their original fluidity, had become piled up and contorted into gigantic masses.
His shop was very near that gigantic lounge, the old Parliament House, and was often resorted to by non-business visitors.
Government transports, steam launches, ranged alongside the quay, lay waiting till these boilers should be put on board by means of a great crane near at hand, which viewed from a distance looked like a gigantic gibbet.
The moonlight slept on the street, crossed by the gigantic shadowy towers of Sancta Sophia.
I have slain a tiger in single combat--I have killed one warder, and conquered the desperate and gigantic creature by whom he was supported.
The fabric which he approached showed, by its gigantic size, and splendour of outline, the power and wealth of the potentate who had erected it.
Craven, was hurrying to attack the ram Tennessee, when a gigantic torpedo exploded beneath her, smashing in the bottom and causing her to sink so suddenly that nearly a hundred men went down with her.
The national government had learned by this time the full measurement of the gigantic task before it.
But the building of such a railway, through thousands of miles of wilderness, across lofty mountains and large rivers, was an undertaking so gigantic and expensive as to be beyond the reach of private parties, without congressional assistance.
Then the White River's icy flood Was thawed with fire and dyed with blood, And heard for many a league the sound Of the pine forests blazing round, And the death-howl and trampling din Of the gigantic herd within.
I came, however, on a gigantic beehive; at least it resembled one in appearance, though the smoke that issued from a hole in its top suggested humanity.
The problem is, to combine many and remote operations, with the accuracy and adherence to the facts, which is easy in near and small transactions; so to arrive at gigantic results, without any compromise of safety.
Looking up they saw a gigantic Missourian with his rifle pointed at them and the negro pulled in as though he was trying to escape another lightning storm.
Occasionally the voyagers would be startled by the splash of a gigantic catfish as it leaped out of the water, and the loons driven southward by the approaching winter, filled the air with their melancholy cries.
From a certain point the island bears a startling resemblance to a gigantic man afloat on his back.
He found it to be a dead mule swollen to gigantic size.
It passed over his beard--a gigantic beard, bushy and flaming red.
In that winter certain gigantic forces, with which old John Wull had nothing whatever to do, were inscrutably passionate.
But the sun was going, throwing its last gay pools of Tuscan gold on the hall’s dim floor, its angry pools of red on the courtyard, turning the feet of the gigantic Green Goddess to blood.
A gigantic negro, flourishing two great naked sabers, and gyrating in a barbaric war-dance, headed it.
The overflows of the river had formed shallow lagoons, in which the nelumbium or gigantic water-lily was first seen.
Are they not posted ingigantic bills in every street?
It was situated in a very low neighbourhood, not far from a gigantic brewery, where you could not walk a yard scarcely without coming to a public house.
At one shop there are the enormous boots, which only navvies and sailors have strength to wear; at another there are oilskin caps, and coats and trousers, or rough woollen shirts, piled up in gigantic masses.
We talked about all those great things for which literature is too small and only life large enough; red-hot memories and those giganticdetails which make up the characters of men.
And the sunset, which was now in its final glory, flung far over all of them a red flush and glitter like the gigantic firelight of Dickens.
It is hacked out of the rock with a sort of gigantic impression.
I mean a sense of gigantic gyration, as of the whole earth turning about one's head.
All over the grove the white cloths were being spread like giganticsnow flakes, and almost as numerous.
