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It was a most "kolossal" lie, but I do not think that the captain should be saddled with it, as he was, doubtless, acting under instructions.
'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany Gerald Featherstone Knight
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They parted assuring each other that they had had a "hugely delightful" (_kolossal entzückend_) day, and that conviction gained with them when they were alone once more.
Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905
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Magritte … real-life figures that fit so well his catastrophic kolossal that they might have been invented by Ballard himself.
Comments for Ballardian Carlos Figueiredo 2009
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_kolossal_ and its _kultur_, to hop on the first motor-'bus that passed, and let it take me where it would -- a favourite trick of mine -- when I ran into Georgie.
Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915
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