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  • The enormous incongruity of the situation does not appear to strike her, that I, the -- too many unutterable things -- should be asked to prepare these young giants, with their 'tremenjous' religious convictions, for the ministry; nevertheless

    Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry Ralph Connor 1898

  • I shall without doubt end in being a saint myself, and should not be surprised to find myself with these 'tremenjous' young men on the way to Holy Orders.

    Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry Ralph Connor 1898

  • I have struck the land of the Anakim, for the inhabitants are all of 'tremenjous' size, and indeed, 'tremenjous' in all their ways, more particularly in their religion.

    Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry Ralph Connor 1898

  • But I felt happy too and so did Jemmy and the Major and not much motion on the whole, though me with a swimming in the head and a sinking but able to take notice that the foreign insides appear to be constructed hollower than the English, leading to much more tremenjous noises when bad sailors.

    Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy 2007

  • But I felt happy too and so did Jemmy and the Major and not much motion on the whole, though me with a swimming in the head and a sinking but able to take notice that the foreign insides appear to be constructed hollower than the English, leading to much more tremenjous noises when bad sailors.

    Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy 2007

  • Its influence over me is still tremenjous, and yielding to it, I am willing to overlook the circumstances over which none of us have had any control and to renew those proposals to Miss Summerson which I had the honour to make at a former period.

    Bleak House 2007

  • I hoisted one end sort of wild like, and over the whole show went with a tremenjous noise.

    Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

  • Well, it might be about seven bells, and my watch below, when I was woke by a most tremenjous bangin 'and hullabaloo.

    In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang

  • Timotheus told my father that 'the money showed that his "literatoor" was wuth something but that the editor man must be dull ter think that it was anything but a tremenjous hefty comp'sition.'

    Randy and Her Friends Amy Brooks

  • Her tremenjous vim nearly wore me aout last season.

    Randy and Her Friends Amy Brooks

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