From humble beginnings as a village schoolmaster's son he grew to become a colossus in the world of symphonic music. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
When a big colossus is supposed to look real but looks 3D. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Off: The Mummy 3 - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net] Reference
Hmmm, the dungeon in a colossus is too much like Clash of the Kingslayers, the winner from last year, which docked it a point for me. From Wordnik.com. [RPG Superstar 2009 Round 4 Open for Voting « Geek Related] Reference
Hawsers were carried out with all diligence, and the "colossus" was towed ashore amidst the acclamations of the whole caravan. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
Edwards, described as a "colossus" by his contemporaries, was snatched away at 21. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Spindian Express, it has honoured him with various epithets such as colossus of Andhra Pradesh, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Seriously Sandeep] Reference
A kind of colossus of a man stalking across the dark, way out in The. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference
James "colossus" Thompson - Kimbo Slice Defeats James "colossus" Thompson, Busts Cauliflower Ear. From Wordnik.com. [Latest hot news: Humsurfer] Reference
Presidents aren't powerful enough to steer this colossus. From Wordnik.com. [Political Truth Serum] Reference
I am bestriding Talk of the Nation like a colossus today. From Wordnik.com. [The Ultimate Election Night Party] Reference
Chinese communist military power into a menacing colossus. From Wordnik.com. [The Invisible Government] Reference
The metal colossus was too powerful for their feeble efforts. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavern of the Shining Ones] Reference
"We're creating a colossus," Redstone boasts of the Paramount acquisition. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Square-Off] Reference
The limbs clearly defined, the body vast and well moulded, like a huge colossus. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
So there he stood, frozen in time, looking down over his city like a bronzed colossus. From Wordnik.com. [Yo, Adrian! Is This Art?] Reference
Once upon a time, there was Ma Bell, which bestrode the earth like a corporate colossus. From Wordnik.com. [AN ICON, READY FOR A TAKEOVER] Reference
The 41-year-old star and director, a veteran of 43 movies, is the colossus of Asian cinema. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Takeout] Reference
Another well-known colossus is the statue of the so-called Memnon, now in the British Museum. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Thus has this colossus, never firmly balanced, been all but overthrown by the finger of a boy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Sir Cyril Smith, who has died at the age of 82, did not bestride British politics like a colossus. From Wordnik.com. [British schools chief Michael Gove gets his sums wrong] Reference
May 1958: Latin American resentment at the power of the colossus of the north has a long pedigree. From Wordnik.com. [Rock That Car, Burn That Flag] Reference
The war escalated until the show, an American Idol – size ratings colossus, was canceled in 1969. From Wordnik.com. [The Case for Censorship] Reference
One of the men suddenly dashed to the left, apparently in a last frantic effort to escape the metal colossus. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavern of the Shining Ones] Reference
There's evidence of a pollen that looks to be from the family of the baobab tree, the whimsical African colossus. From Wordnik.com. [Pollen Nation] Reference
Again it was Alexander the Well-beloved who intervened when other powers would have overwhelmed the fallen colossus. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Russia] Reference
But it's now clear that success in Congress depends in part on convincing skittish members that Perot is no colossus. From Wordnik.com. [Perot: Rattling The White House] Reference
Samsung Electronics, which bestrides the Korean stock market like a colossus, recently made up 17% of the iShares fund's assets. From Wordnik.com. [Look Inside Country ETFs] Reference
It shows why Wal-Mart as a government agency would actually provide fewer public benefits than as a grubby, profit-seeking colossus. From Wordnik.com. [Wal-Mart's A Diversion] Reference
Along with Breville's sandwich toaster it bestrode the 70s and 80s DIY processed food landscape like a giant dust-gathering colossus. From Wordnik.com. [The Hard Sell: Sodastream] Reference
The days of seeing America as a bullying colossus are ending; people in the Caribbean know how cruel government in small places can be. From Wordnik.com. [Yes, There Is A National Interest] Reference
The problem was, the software industry had grown up in an environment with few regulations, and was now a multibillion-dollar colossus. From Wordnik.com. [HOW THEY BEAT BIG BROTHER] Reference
The French sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi wanted to build a colossus bestriding the entrance to the newly opened Suez Canal in the 1870s. From Wordnik.com. [Intimate Strangers] Reference
This whole affair is an example of the dealmaking skills Malone has used to transform TCI from an almost-bankrupt pimple into a colossus. From Wordnik.com. [That Old Malone Magic] Reference
Still, Isabel was less destructive than forecasters had feared earlier in the week, when it was a roiling colossus generating 160mph winds. From Wordnik.com. [By A Tempest Tossed] Reference
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