giantesque

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

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

Trivial might some say who hanker after giantesque composition.

Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

There were giantesque negroes from the heart of Africa; lithe, handsome youths from India and Arabia; far-travelled strangers from

The Girl from the Marsh Croft 1910

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.

AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901

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.

AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901

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.

AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901

This envelope was hideous, yet it served to exalt the man within to giantesque proportions.

The Prince of India — Volume 01 Lewis Wallace 1866

a figure in shining ebony, giantesque in proportions, Phidian in grace.

The Prince of India — Volume 02 Lewis Wallace 1866