In the cosmogonic forest of the Himalaya towers the stupendous bulk of the Jambu, and from its roots four great rivers, whose waters are inexhaustible, take their source.
From beneath the colossal base of this stupendous tree gushed all the waters of the earth, by whose instrumentality nature was everywhere refreshed and invigorated.
An instructive result is to be seen in the mildness of temper which characterized the conduct of our stupendous Civil War.
To organise the nation's industrial resources upon a stupendous scale was the only way if we were to continue with success the great struggle which lay before us, and I feel that the result achieved fully warranted the steps I took.
One of their punishments will be the corroding contemplation of the "ifs" and "buts" of their stupendous gamble.
Afterwards we witnessed the stupendous efforts of de Castelnau and Foch, but all ended in the same trench!
She stood fearfully at the extreme edge of a stupendous cliff, where it sheered dark and forbidding, down and down, into what seemed red and boundless depths of Hades.
What a stupendous chasm, gorgeous in sunset color on the heights, purpling into mystic shadows in the depths!
We must open our minds to the stupendous fact that God is immanent in his universe and that it is literally and exactly true, as we were taught long ago, that, during every moment of our lives, in Him we live and move and have our being.
At any rate between them both they have turned out one of the most beautiful and stupendous pieces of mountain carving to be found upon the earth.
In the next geologic age, the temples and monuments of the Grand Canon will have largely disappeared, and the stupendous spectacle will be mainly a thing of the past.
We see about us daily transformations as stupendous as that of the evolution of man from the lower animals, and we marvel not.
His camera would have shown him only our silent, motionless forms as we stood transfixed by that first view of the stupendous spectacle.
True, I am but a cool searcher of the stupendous monuments of the mighty races that are no more, but have left the history of their passage on earth written on the stones of the palaces of their rulers, upon the temples of their gods.
They come forth in proportion to the requirements of the part they are to represent in the great drama of life, the means in the stupendous mechanism of the universe being always perfectly and wisely adapted to the ends.
It is a stupendous and unspeakably blessed privilege that Christ and believers are one flesh.
We engaged a carriage to the charming haunts of Tivoli, where picturesque objects in the town and its vicinity, and the stupendous waterfall with manifold associations, clustering round the immediate neighbourhood, created memorable delight.
It was a stupendous job, as he weighed nearly one thousand pounds, and lay on the steep canyon side ready to roll on and crush us.
The captain has adorned his manly frame with a suit of India rubber, which certainly could not have been selected for its gracefulness, and has overshadowed his honest face with a sou'wester of stupendous proportions.
Its interior seemed cool and refreshing, for no heat can penetrate that stupendous pile of masonry,--and I gathered new strength from my short visit.
There were the same obscure passages, the same stupendous collection of intricate machinery, and the same mysterious odour, as of gas and musty scenery, pervaded the whole.
It does not possess the broad Bay of Naples, nor is it watched over by a stupendous volcano, smoking leisurely for want of some better occupation.
To preserve even its dust and broken fragments, museums far more stupendous than Solomon's temple have been reared all over the world.
Is there any reason why we should accept so impossible an explanation of the origin of the universe, or of the relation of the earth to the sun, when we have within our reach the stupendous revelations of science?
The superposition, also, of the gneiss to the oolite may, in some cases, be due to a reversal of the original position of the beds in a region where the convulsions have been on so stupendous a scale.
Upon the right, basking in the golden sunset as in the light of an eternal calm, a stupendous fortress lay, like some vast monster of old time, asleep.
The limestone rocks, which rise on either hand above the gorge to an enormous height, are noble in form and solemn, like a succession of gigantic portals, with stupendous flanking obelisks and pyramids.
The Euganean hills stand like stupendous pyramids, Egyptian, solemn, against a lemon space on the horizon.
These valleys and their enclosing peaks are all formed on a scale of stupendous magnificence, yet so clear is the atmosphere that distance is dwarfed, making the views perfect.
Long have I struggled under the stupendousdifficulties of the subject.
What are the reflections to which this stupendous earth-heap gives birth?
Along its eastern border is extended a range of neat edifices, while lower down sleep the calm, clear waters of the lake, unruffled by a ripple, and reflecting from its placid bosom the stupendous vegetation of the wooded alluvion beyond.
When was this stupendous earth-heap reared up from the plain?
