Brobdingnagians

This enjoyable horror is also very much a tribute or open love-letter to Don Quixote de la Mancha, with whom Donald both idolises and identifies, although the dream encounters also bring to mind Gulliver's meetings with the Brobdingnagians and Lilliputians.

Hell's Other Kitchen Sci-Fi Gene 2009

This enjoyable horror is also very much a tribute or open love-letter to Don Quixote de la Mancha, with whom Donald both idolises and identifies, although the dream encounters also bring to mind Gulliver's meetings with the Brobdingnagians and Lilliputians.

Archive 2009-05-01 Sci-Fi Gene 2009

Never mind that the three little boys had nothing to do with it; they are descended from Brobdingnagians -- or Tutsis or Jews or Sunnis or Macedonians -- and thus stand for all that is evil.

The Trouble With Tribes 2008

The English are now poised to take Paris and become the dominant power in Europe, but the tide of the war is already turning, with the few surviving Brobdingnagians now in the employ of the French.

Swiftly by Adam Roberts Adam Whitehead 2007

The English are now poised to take Paris and become the dominant power in Europe, but the tide of the war is already turning, with the few surviving Brobdingnagians now in the employ of the French.

Archive 2007-11-01 Adam Whitehead 2007

How can I resist when, a few sentences later, he talks about feeling like Gulliver among the Brobdingnagians?

Timing « So Many Books 2005

But way up on the highest shelf was a thin little text that, every now and then, would catch my eye because it seemed so out of place, like Gulliver among the Brobdingnagians.

Excerpt: The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene 2004

Brobdingnagians traveling abroad needed merely take certain precautions in disposal of their body wastes.

Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000

Alex supposed that Brobdingnagians had an innate talent for that kind of engineering; or maybe it was just that they could work on a nuclear reactor as casually as a human could tinker with an aircar engine, and thus acquired a knack for it.

Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 2000

Characteristics of the human race hardly perceptible in their ordinary proportions, attain a disgusting and monstrous prominence when seen in the huge persons of the Brobdingnagians.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman