| 单词 | Brobdingnagian |
| 例句 | Given passenger pigeons’ Brobdingnagian appetites for mast and maize, one would expect that Indians would also have hunted them and wanted to keep down their numbers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z These are the basic tools of the artwork Brzezinski creates in her McLean studio — bizarre Brobdingnagian sculptures hewn from red oak, cherry, walnut, maple. Emilie Brzezinski is her own kind of power player: an artist with a chainsaw In 1979, Koons exhibited ready-made blown-up vinyl flowers, set against mirrored tiles; more recently, he’s produced Brobdingnagian balloon animals, fabricated in seductively reflective stainless steel. Andrea K. Scott: Art This Summer 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The second turns the massive fiberglass and epoxy resin abstraction into a Brobdingnagian incense burner. With these Evan Holloway sculptures, the possibilities are almost infinite 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Which now includes social media, perhaps most responsible for these Brobdingnagian brims. Hats Are Big This Summer. Really Big. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Watching a relay of Il Trovatore in a sports stadium in San Francisco last autumn, I found the spectacle, with those wobbling Brobdingnagian tonsils several feet high, somewhat out-of-kilter. Plays beamed into cinemas: is this the future of theatre? 2010-08-22T21:00:00Z To the south is a Brobdingnagian set of rocky pinnacles marching into the Indian Ocean. T Magazine: Water World 2010-11-19T20:34:00Z Here in the foodie capital of North Carolina, most restaurants are still guilty of desserts of Brobdingnagian proportions. The Ice Cream Sundae Must Be Stopped 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z One register is busy, surrealistic, grotesque: a Brobdingnagian nude woman swarmed with small figures in chaotic sexual poses; mummy-like forms, zippers up their thorax; body parts free-floating or severed; truncheons; bizarre machinery. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Her bedraggled head nearly scrapes the ceiling of the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, where Jason Craig’s play opened on Thursday night, and her scrawny torso is attached to a Brobdingnagian skirt that defies circumnavigation. Review: Jason Craig’s ‘Longyarn’ Features a Mom Who Won’t Shut Up 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z So the Brobdingnagian shooter will be sent to Scotland where it will rest louchely against a great tree in a sculpture park owned by her wealthy friends Mr and Mrs Wilson. Cornelia Parker: A history of violence 2010-05-25T20:31:00Z As you climb the subway steps to Central Park West, looming overhead is the faceted red-granite American Museum of Natural History, whose rusticated walls and 150-foot-tall towers look like a Brobdingnagian brownstone. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Despite its Brobdingnagian length, the quartet consists of Lilliputian parcels: succinct gestures, tiny shudders, rising and falling melodic cells. Music Review: Ne(x)tworks Quartet Plays Feldman?s Six-Hour Work 2010-04-12T22:43:00Z The high stage is made up of some Brobdingnagian shelving, on whose higher levels hardback books shudder when the rhythm section gets animated. Neon Neon – review 2013-06-08T23:06:01Z He’s a businessman — a billboard tycoon — with a Brobdingnagian mansion and a golf habit. ‘Mr. Mayor’ Review: A Political Comedy From Sitcom Royalty 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z It’s not the Brobdingnagian affair it could have been, and is better for it. Arts & Leisure: Two Titans Share The Seat of Power 2011-08-09T19:00:08Z To wear Brobdingnagian accessories in a stylized effort to shield or distract. June Ambrose, a Leading Celebrity Stylist, Recreates Swagger 2011-10-21T21:46:38Z Showing a nicely judged sense of humor, the annotated catalogue of Pistner’s collection of Lilliputian-sized books is a gorgeous, Brobdingnagian tome — and sure to become a standard reference for connoisseurs of miniature bindings and texts. Review | The tale of the ‘lost’ Gutenberg Bible and other books about. . .books 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z With fewer Pokémon and a more thoughtful approach to fights, Black & White are fitting continuations of a Brobdingnagian franchise. This week's new games 2011-03-12T00:07:33Z And while this music is so much more than an occasion for nightclub etiquette lessons, that’s exactly why the Brobdingnagian beer-bros who mysteriously show up at Pratt’s concerts expel such a discouraging aura. Review | Let’s get small with Jessica Pratt 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Wouk’s wife, Sarah, detested Laughton: “Penetrating the Brobdingnagian façade, she found a crafty manipulator.” At 100, Herman Wouk re-emerges with a memoir, ‘Sailor and Fiddler’ 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Another was an enormous clothesline strung from telephone poles and hung with Brobdingnagian clothes that ringed the stage. Phish’s Art Director Calls Four Shipping Containers Home 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z In working on a series of Brobdingnagian sculptures called “Family Trees” that featured photos of her relatives, she said she came to understand her identity was half Czech and half American. Emilie Brzezinski, artist who socialized among political elites, dies at 90 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z They included a large Robinson Crusoe umbrella in Des Moines; a Brobdingnagian electric plug in Oberlin, Ohio; and an immense rubber stamp in Cleveland. Claes Oldenburg, a whimsical father of pop art, dies at 93 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z They were few enough that at times it seemed a coveted appearance on the Brobdingnagian video screen might come to each and every one of them. Alabama advances to the national title game with an artful offensive performance 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z San Francisco’s 48 Hills website describes the sound as “an eerie, Brobdingnagian hum.” Opinion | Is it the apocalypse? No, it’s just the Golden Gate Bridge. 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The tile work crumbled from the Brobdingnagian pylons, but the square was alive. In Uzbekistan, Coming to Terms With the Country’s Dazzling History 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z As do Brobdingnagian tablets, meant to be used by octopuses. Review: This artist re-created sunrise, indoors. Walk through the mind-blowing room yourself 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z For any Trump acolyte, much less the so-called president himself, to deride anyone for saying a bad word is an act of hypocrisy truly Brobdingnagian in scale. Obscenity is not just a set of words 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Rather than hogging attention like their Brobdingnagian brethren, they wait to be discovered. With Men’s Watches, Small Is Cool Again 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z If, after a Brobdingnagian fine for mortgage-backed securities, Deutsche Bank also faces a huge settlement for mirror trades, the bank may need to recapitalize with German government money. Deutsche Bank’s Real-Time Stress Test 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z They were like Giacometti giants in Brobdingnagian clothes as they moved around the room on massive platform boots. Put away your skinny jeans. Clothes are getting big again — and it’s about time. 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z A porch on the block is home to a massive drinking bird, a Brobdingnagian version of that novelty that sips from a glass. A yard sign against yard signs? Only in Takoma Park. 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z The ceilings are scaled to Andreessen’s Brobdingnagian proportions, and everything is majestic, minimal, and new. Who Funds the Future? 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z In every quarter of the town, down back alleys, mounting up the steps towards the Calvario, in the farthest-out streets, we had met women carrying home the Brobdingnagian cabbages. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z It is quite true that a Brobdingnagian Conservatory does not seem so beautiful to us as it did to the Prince Consort and Sir Joseph Paxton. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Then Mr. Hamilton Gibson showed me some monster drawings of flowers—Brobdingnagian ones. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z Paxton, a figure of Brobdingnagian proportions, 6 ft. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z And some are short, and some are tall; Some portly, and some spare; Here is a group of pygmies small, A Tom Thumb family; there A Brobdingnagian row extends, The best-informed among my friends. Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse 2011-08-23T02:00:28.813Z There is little precedent for such a Brobdingnagian burial. Deep Below Park Avenue, a Monster at Rest 2011-07-25T01:58:33Z He amused me by a story of how there, or in some other Brobdingnagian London store, the electric light suddenly went out, just at the busiest hour of the evening. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z But Mr. Lowndes may be offended if you do not exhibit his Brobdingnagian bouquet. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z And an order of center-cut veal chop was Brobdingnagian and cooked to pale pink perfection. | Greenwich: At a New Steakhouse, Big Portions and Tabs 2011-05-21T00:37:27Z She sent in to his office little perfumed notes, directed by the fair hand of Felicia in Brobdingnagian characters. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 2011-04-26T02:00:25.180Z When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z Meanwhile, without a whiff of irony, nor even the merest cameo from a clapped-out old England manager, Nike premiered its Brobdingnagian new advert, Write The Future, during the Champions' League final. Martin Kelner: Taylor's return is a turnip for the books 2010-05-23T23:06:00Z He crept round it till the plane, which looked like nothing so much as a Brobdingnagian bird of prey, was between him and the shack. The Trail of Conflict From a point near the top a gigantic baobab tree towered up against the skyline like a Brobdingnagian cabbage. Into the Primitive I never ceased marveling at the pluck with which this Lilliputian tackled life in the midst of such Brobdingnagian surroundings. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road His body was sound and whole; he felt perfectly natural; he had not changed, save in size; and in size he was like Gulliver, confronted with a Brobdingnagian room! Astounding Stories, August, 1931 Indeed, intemperance seemed only to make him more light-hearted, ebullient, and Brobdingnagian. Interpreters And besides, he had eyes as well as this old Brobdingnagian, and knew how to use them to quite as good a purpose. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 Watch his wide waistcoat and his wandering eyes, His stamping boots of Brobdingnagian size, Clenched hands, and shoulders swaying. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 He brought me upwards into a room crammed with strange machinery, all cranks and levers and wires and pulleys, and before us two great cylinders like unto a "Brobdingnagian" music box. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders From thence, as Lady Hannah Wrynche had said in one of her descriptive letters, dated from "My Headquarters at the Seat of War," it dominated the landscape as a Brobdingnagian stone mushroom might have done. The Dop Doctor When a modest footman came from behind the curtain to clear it, and took it up in his arms like a Brobdingnagian baby, we all laughed more than ever we had laughed in our lives. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 The chirp is very loud, something like a Brobdingnagian grasshopper. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 The chirp is very loud: something like a Brobdingnagian grasshopper. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Altogether his story was of the Brobdingnagian type. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. The books on these shelves were huge folios, the size of some Brobdingnagian atlas, any one of which required all Mr. Elmendorf's strength to lift from its place. A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike Close by a Brobdingnagian finger lured the unwary to where it pointed—a low doorway above which was inscribed the legend: "Hier essen Sie gut." A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes The men seek no relaxation from their business occupations save in Brobdingnagian dinners and suppers. Mary Wollstonecraft Their queer features and weaknesses stand out large in a sort of gigantic domesticity, like the hairs and freckles of a Brobdingnagian. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens “Just like a Brobdingnagian boy’s hoop gone mad.” Will of the Mill But thrust for thrust, ray for ray, projectile for massive projectile, the Brobdingnagian creations of the Vorkuls gave back to the hexans. Spacehounds of IPC It is dirty, so much I will grant; and it is of a Brobdingnagian smell. Europe After 8:15 "What could possess him to imagine that we should ever get over the shop—granted that it is a Brobdingnagian shop, an imposing mart of linen-drapery, haberdashery, silk-mercery enough to serve the whole county?" A Houseful of Girls It was his single expensive habit—the never-empty box of Brobdingnagian cigars in the drawer—and the indulgence helped him to push the Yellow-Dog period into a remoter past. The Price Fillmore House, Newport, Rhode Island, September 13th.—We left New York on Thursday afternoon, and embarked in a Brobdingnagian steamboat, which it would not be very easy to describe. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 The black spiral reached from hand to elbow; when he withdrew his arm the club poker was a Brobdingnagian corkscrew. The President A novel Stranded tanks have an appearance of Brobdingnagian helplessness. My Second Year of the War But the next day, when he was nailing the saplings to make a truly Brobdingnagian grid, one of the directors of the bridge company appeared to him. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul He heaved a Brobdingnagian sigh of relief when they finished. The Plastic Age And if Mrs Elton was a Brobdingnagian thorn on the stem of his Rose, the D.C.'s patent pleasure and affectionate allusions to the girl atoned for a good deal. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India And he rumbled and thundered again with Brobdingnagian mirth. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative From his office in Glasgow he could see the whole vast labours of industrious and mercantile man, that Brobdingnagian ant of this revolving globe, merely by closing his eyes. The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster When the van toppled they were tossed over the roadside into the bog, lighted on their hands and knees, and sank slowly into its mushiness like two Brobdingnagian frogs. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul To announce it is to invite gasps or Brobdingnagian laughter. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Nor is progress to be found in merely quantitative, Brobdingnagian expansion. Recent Developments in European Thought The demon pounced on a Brobdingnagian volume upon the desk and worried it open at a marker. Copper Streak Trail But then she had carried him off between her finger and thumb, so to speak, as the Brobdingnagian ladies carried off Gulliver. Septimus The tops of the palms are flying about like Brobdingnagian birds, their long blades darting out like infuriated tongues. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories It became true the moment he formulated his thought; Gulliver had described the Brobdingnagian maids-of-honour thus: and mentally and spiritually she corresponded—was unsensitive, limited, common. Widdershins She could hear the click of the telegraph instruments already reporting the details of the action as cheerfully as Brobdingnagian crickets in their peaceful surroundings. The Last Shot What is that apocryphal monstrosity compared with this Brobdingnagian Berry? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891 That is to say, when the great mass of citizens are only ankle-high, when among the Lilliputians a Brobdingnagian walks, he is a great man. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 The leaflets are all gone, but when entire, the object must have strongly resembled a Brobdingnagian feather. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 The plane reminded one of some Brobdingnagian dragon-fly, resting for flight, shimmering with power as it poised for one swift leap aloft into the night. The Flying Legion The struggle on the immense landscape, where at least a quarter of a million men were killed and wounded, became as simple as some Brobdingnagian football match. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form He told her about Texas, at length and in detail, being a true son of that Brobdingnagian state. Cheerful—By Request He examines the Christian cult inch by inch, just as Gulliver did the cuticle of the Brobdingnagian maid who sat him astride her nipple. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 We hear nothing from him to remind us of Lemuel Gulliver's disgust with the yawning pores and unseemly blotches of the epidermis of that monster Brobdingnagian maid who set him astride her nipple. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 It is well death removed the Boston critic before our city entered into its present Brobdingnagian phase. The Ways of Men Discords of remote activity rose above the more intimate throbbing of our screw, and we seemed a pigmy company floating past the workshops of Brobdingnagian toilers. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu At the swelling thought, his chest became Brobdingnagian. A Chair on the Boulevard All magic has faded out of the scene; everything is too far away from everything else; everybody one meets seems coarse and Brobdingnagian and too near. Peter Ibbetson The fancy conjures up a Brobdingnagian wheat-field partially cut in the green stage. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" In a moment the air was thick with a Brobdingnagian snow-storm: pamphlets, huge wads of foolscap, bills, books, newspapers, waste-baskets went flying at the grotesque target from every quarter of the room. In the Arena Stories of Political Life Nothing more brings home to us the abomination of the whole thing than to see the official draw these Brobdingnagian bolts and turn these gigantic keys. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne I get you, Coach—you want a fellow about the size of the Lusitania, made of structural steel, a Brobdingnagian Colossus who will guarantee to advance the ball fifteen yards per rush, or money refunded! T. Haviland Hicks Senior Take two creatures of different bulk but built upon exactly the same plan and proportions, say a Brobdingnagian and a Lilliputian, and let both show their powers in the arena. Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 The Brobdingnagian vase, so wonderfully decorated with flowers, animals and arabesques, was passed over by the jury. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" So far good; but the implication that the streets of New York swarm, like a scene in a harlequinade, with similarly Brobdingnagian signs is quite unfounded. America To-day, Observations and Reflections It is something like the bonnet of a Brobdingnagian Quakeress, huge and flapped and battered, and fearful to look upon. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young What was it?—Ha, yes—A Brobdingnagian act—" "—of brachycephalic brutality, Sir. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 10, 1917 Until now had they lived to see the science of the sawdust ring pitted against the brute force of Brobdingnagian, of Antaeus and Goliath. Back to God's Country and Other Stories This colossal effigy went by the name of Papa Reuss, and carried in its pocket a bouncing infant of Brobdingnagian proportions. The Golden Bough It chanced also that he had halted before the minute stool of the infant Filgee, and his large figure instantly assumed such Brobdingnagian proportions in contrast that he became more embarrassed than ever. Cressy And how she revelled in the Brobdingnagian drawings of her, which, printed in nineteen colours, towered between the columns or sprawled across them! Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Such a cooking apparatus as might have graced a Brobdingnagian kitchen. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales |
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