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Example sentences for "titanic"

  • Perhaps there was no part of the titanic struggle which so honourably distinguished those men of the South as did that campaign in which they doggedly fought on after they had come to understand that their fighting was futile.

  • At this the titanic thing went wholly, colossally mad!

  • In the center was a titanic coil of reddish metal formed by a single cable nearly a yard through.

  • A solid sheet of reddish metal, like a titanic half-eggshell, it glittered under him in an unbroken piece.

  • As though somewhere nearby a dozen titanic serpents were coiled ready to spring!

  • I was in New York City for two weeks at the time of the Titanic disaster.

  • Captain Smith of the Titanic was held responsible by public opinion for the sinking of the great ship and was harshly criticised by the press.

  • At that last titanic effort of his he had rushed downward with such terrific force that, striking his head on the bottom, he had broken his neck.

  • So the titanic struggle went on, in perfect silence as far as we were concerned, because, even had there been any noise, our distance from the scene of conflict would not have permitted us to hear it.

  • Almost at the same moment it began; and there was I, who with fearful admiration had so often watched the titanic convulsions of a dying cachalot, actually involved in them.

  • Whether his previous titanic efforts had completely exhausted him, or whether the bomb had broken his massive backbone, I do not know, of course, but he went into no flurry, dying as peacefully as his course had been furious.

  • The Author of the Plan that has set so titanic an enterprise in motion is Himself mounted at the head of these battalions, and leads them on to capture the cities of men’s hearts.

  • And only a few Earthmen knew of the titanic struggle--and of the strange, decisive role they were to play in the war of the super-races.

  • In Mendelssohn's music we get no sense of Titanic power such as we feel when "Wagner" is being played; no world problems vex us.

  • The oratorio had been turned off in just twenty-one days, in one of those titanic bursts of power, of which this man was capable.

  • Behold the face of Ludwig Beethoven--is there not something Titanic about it?

  • Heroes, World Fairs, and Titanic disasters are crowd words, the crowd's way of seeing and saying things.

  • At last, and quite unexpectedly, she emerged from the blackness into the transparent green, and, glancing upward, saw a sight which caused her to hurl herself madly to the surface with a Titanic sweep of her great flanks.

  • They formed a gigantic abutment, a titanic salient.

  • And from edge to edge of the titanic bridge, from where it sprang outward at the shore of the Crimson Sea to a hundred feet away from the golden door of the abode, barrier after barrier was piled.

  • As this volume goes to press the Titanic struggle for Verdun--the battle which may well decide the War--rages with undiminished fury.

  • As I gaze thereon, I find the lineaments and limbs of a Titanic man chained and nailed to the rock.

  • All the irregularities of the hills are softened into swelling billows like the mouldings of Titanic statuary.

  • But it was revealed a few months later that the nations had really approached to the very brink of a Titanic struggle, which would have desolated the whole of Europe.

  • As they fled, my blows Titanic falling fast increased their panic, Till their shattered forces scattered widely o'er the snowy plain.

  • White as the ice that clove her That unforgotten day, Among her pallid sisters The grim Titanic lay.

  • But in a twinkling there was a Titanic flounce, when behold, the black was above, the red below.

  • Malvezzi's appended report launched at once into the "how" of the titanic task which was set for him.

  • One enormous mass of blocks is a perfect specimen of Titanic arrangement; it looks primeval, antediluvian.

  • We feel our muscular energy almost grow upon us, and when we have revelled on the turf, then down among the white, smooth rocks that lie scattered around in chaotic rudeness, like the thrones of Titanic nobles.

  • Then came a blinding flash, and a roar of thunder, followed by a bellowing, as if the air were a great dram, on which Titanic hands were beating and rolling.

  • The nations forgot to grieve for the thousands slain in the hope that this last crowning disaster to Russia would bring what every civilized land had desired for months--an end to the titanic war.

  • Well might it be necessary for both armies to rest after such a titanic struggle, and to devote more than a month to reforming and reinforcing the shattered ranks and to refilling their ammunition trains.


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