Trivial might some say who hanker after giantesque composition. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
Every one has heard of the mimosa, the dogwood, the red-bud, and the magnolia, but not of the tulip-bearing tree, with its incomparably bold, dashing, giantesque flower, once so common in the great woods of our Western and Middle. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
This envelope was hideous, yet it served to exalt the man within to giantesque proportions. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
There were giantesque negroes from the heart of Africa; lithe, handsome youths from India and Arabia; far-travelled strangers from. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from the Marsh Croft] Reference
In mountainous multitudes the giantesque phantoms reeled to and from, their mighty forms wreathed in streams of flame, while the stars paled and shuddered as they fought. From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
His face was archetypal; the abstract passion which eluded me in the features of many people I knew, was here declared, exultant, defiant, giantesque; it seem to leap like fire, to be free. From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
What would follow in the dark ages to come, rose up before me in shadowy, over-crowding pictures; like the surf of a giant ocean they fluctuated against the heavens, crested with dim, giantesque and warring figures. From Wordnik.com. [AE in the Irish Theosophist] Reference
A figure in shining ebony, giantesque in proportions, Phidian in grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference
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