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Sentences ending with formidable

Joan of Arc was the only power in France that the English did not despise, the only power in France that they considered formidable. [5]
Mr. George Bemis was dismally formidable. [5]
He, indeed, did not attract a strong following, but opposition movements from different quarters appeared more formidable. [7]
Of all the festive occasions which I attended, the garden-parties were to me the most formidable. [6]
They did not even dare to let me take my passport in my hands for twelve hours, I looked so formidable. [5]
And this popularity carried him triumphantly through the Presidential election of 1864, in spite of an opposition within his own party which at first seemed very formidable. [7]

Sentences containing formidable two or more times

He was formidable even to Mr. Flint, who had met many formidable, and angry men in his time--although not of this type. [9]

More example sentences with the word formidable in them

He who rejects with scorn the belief that the shape of his own canines, and their occasional great development in other men, are due to our early forefathers having been provided with these formidable weapons, will probably reveal, by sneering, the line of his descent. [1]
He presented himself with a somewhat forlorn countenance to Dr. Fordyce Hurlbut, as suffering from some of the less formidable symptoms of that affection. [6]
The further we went the more formidable was the strength revealed by the hostile force. [5]
And no sane way has yet been discovered of getting around its formidable significance. [5]
When their cage was shaken, they would lift their heads and spring their rattles; but the sound was by no means so formidable to listen to as when it reverberated among the chasms of the echoing rocks. [6]
If any surrendering was done, it would be to the noble Maid of Vaucouleurs, already famed and formidable though she had not yet struck a blow. [5]
When completed it was a formidable document. [5]
The high stockade walls with stout bastions and small cannon looked formidable, yet there was no man of them but was better pleased that the odds were against him than with him. [11]
He only strapped up my cut, and informed me that it would speedily get well by the "first intention,"--an odd phrase enough, but sounding much less formidable than cutis oenea. [6]
The known and undisputed products of her pen are a formidable witness against her. [5]
These huge brass tubes, mounted on their scaffoldings and pointed skyward from every choice vantage-ground, have the formidable look of artillery, and give the town the general aspect of getting ready to repel a charge of angels. [5]
The Honourable Hilary, towering above him, and with that grip on his arm, was a formidable person. [9]
It earned sorrow to the breast of every apostle of learning there, for none could deny that this was a formidable criticism. [5]
Poets who come to recite their verses and reformers who come to explain their projects are among the most formidable of earthly visitations. [6]
I should have to begin with one most formidable preliminary. [6]
This trade grew to be so formidable that Italy was obliged to put a prohibitory impost upon it to keep it from working serious injury to her oil industry. [5]
For a short time it was really a formidable wedging together of people, and if a lady had fainted in the press, she might have run a serious risk before she could have been extricated. [6]
A landslip occurred three quarters of a century ago, on the route from Arth to Brunnen, which was a formidable thing. [5]
I remember two things about his lectures on surgery, the deep tones of his voice as he referred to his oracle,--the earlier writer, Jean Louis Petit,--and his formidable snuffbox. [6]
In that June there were vexatious strikes in various parts of the country, formidable combinations of laboring-men, demonstrations of trades-unions, and the exhibition of a spirit that sharply called attention to the unequal distribution of wealth. [4]
We moved down the shore and Joan planted her standard before the bastille of the Augustins, the first of the formidable works that protected the end of the bridge. [5]
One still remains--its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it. [7]
Besides, my adventurous spirit had conceived a formidable enterprise--nothing less than a trip from Interlaken, by the Gemmi and Visp, clear to Zermatt, on foot! [5]
Mr. Crewe was silent awhile, that this formidable array of things might make the proper impression upon his visitor. [9]
What is the secret of his formidable supremacy? [5]
It cannot be said that he was intimate with that rather formidable personage, although the Judge, being a man of habits, had formed that of taking tea at least once a week with Mrs. Brice. [9]
The telegram ostensibly quotes verse 53 from the "Magnificat," but really makes some pretty formidable changes in it. [5]
The Democrats nominated Pudd'nhead Wilson for mayor, and he was left alone in this glory, for the Whigs had no man who was willing to enter the lists against such a formidable opponent. [5]
And a long-drawn procession of formidable names it was! [5]
And though he possessed the means to follow his friends and erstwhile neighbours into the newer paradise five miles westward, he had successfully resisted for several years a formidable campaign to uproot him. [9]
The martial notes pealed out, the troops answered with a yell, and down they came against that formidable work, whose outlines were lost in its own cannon-smoke, and whose sides were spouting flame and thunder. [5]
Phanes can betray our land to any foreign enemy; he is as intimately acquainted with it as we are; and beside this, he possesses a secret, the knowledge of which would convert our most powerful ally into a most formidable enemy. [10]
The trail that one of these great rural parties leaves after it is one of its most formidable considerations. [6]
It elaborated itself on his hands;--it became twenty times more complex and formidable than was his first rude draft of it. [5]
The restaurant life of the people is, of course, different from their home life, and perhaps an evening entertainment here is no more formidable than one in America, but it is different. [4]
It contains one of the many assurances I receive from the South, that in no probable event will there be any very formidable effort to break up the Union. [7]
With that pair of formidable British precedents to proceed upon, what Congress of ours-- But how short-sighted I am. [5]
Without any sign of fear it flew direct to St. Peter, who looked formidable enough with his long beard and great keys, and, pointing with its little forefinger to the hard-hearted woman, cried: 'She once gave me a handful of nuts. [10]
The breaking out of a formidable insurrection based on a conflict of political ideas, being an event without precedent in the United States, was necessarily attended by great confusion and perplexity of the public mind. [7]
The reader need not apprehend the recital, at full length, of such formidable preparations for the Widow's tea-party as were required in the case of Colonel Sprowle's Social Entertainment. [6]
A formidable analogy, much in the nature of a proof, with very serious consequences, which moralists and match-makers would do well to remember! [6]
They also differed much in severity, the cases of puerperal origin being among the most formidable and fatal. [3]
It was a most formidable battery, then, which Cyprian's first rival opened upon the fortress of Myrtle's affections. [6]
Chekmar held in leash three formidable wolfhounds, who had, however, grown fat like their master and his horse. [2]
When that formidable lance-point was within a yard and a half of my breast I twitched my horse aside without an effort, and the big knight swept by, scoring a blank. [5]
The old Romans knew how formidable, even in contest with a gladiator equipped with sword, helmet, and shield, was the almost naked retiarius, with his net in one hand and his three-pronged javelin in the other. [6]
Was it not just possible that I should have to revise my idea of him, acknowledge that he might become more formidable than I had thought? [9]
Windpipe, food-pipe, carotid, jugular, half a dozen smaller, but still formidable vessels, a great braid of nerves, each as big as a lamp-wick, spinal cord,--ought to kill at once, if at all. [6]
The best talker is liable to become the most formidable of bores. [6]
When the thermometer is in the eighties, anything heavy and formidable is distasteful. [4]
He fought himself into such a formidable reputation, by and by, that Tom could have changed clothes with him, and "ridden in peace," like Sir Kay in Launcelot's armor. [5]
If a mere instantaneous impression can produce effects like these, such an impression might of course be followed by consequences less fatal or formidable, but yet serious in their nature. [6]
His shrewdness, his insight, his judgment, his knowledge, his enterprise, and his formidable cleverness in applying these forces were frankly confessed, and most competently cursed. [5]
I saw places in your last batch where re-writing had done formidable injury. [5]
It is 'sentiment,' in my sense of the term--sentiment jealously hidden, but genuine, which extracts the venom from that formidable Thackeray, and converts what might be corrosive poison into purifying elixir. [14]
He was formidable in a fight, for he was of powerful build and dauntless courage. [5]
All its predictions have been submitted to the formidable test of time. [6]
It is a good argument, a prodigiously strong one, and most formidable one for even the most gifted and ingenious and plausible Stratfordolator to get around or explain away. [5]
And on the fourth day the formidable New Yorkers unexpectedly thawed. [9]
They made a formidable parcel, but a little handle was supplied and the rector hurried out, swinging himself on a Tower Street car. [9]
Tom recognised its formidable nature, and said-- "The doctor knoweth his trade--belike they were right. [5]
That is too formidable a change altogether; he would necessarily suffer from it. [5]
Him Nature giveth for defence His formidable innocence. [6]
Farther from the flowers and nearer to the stars,--to reach the neighborhood of which last the per ardua of three or four flights of stairs was formidable for any mortal, wounded or well. [6]
As we approached famous and formidable Plum Point, darkness fell, but that was nothing to shudder about--in these modern times. [5]
Hedge, who knew Emerson well, has spoken to me of his extraordinary gift, and no reader of "English Traits" can have failed to mark the formidable penetration of the intellect which looked through those calm cerulean eyes. [6]
We were not dreaming; this was not a make-believe home of the Alp-climber, created by our heated imaginations; no, for here was Mr. Girdlestone himself, the famous Englishman who hunts his way to the most formidable Alpine summits without a guide. [5]
The infallible has done the business for all the party except the Scotchman's wife and the author of that formidable remedy. [5]
The old Doctor did not keep people waiting in dread suspense, while he stayed talking about the case,--the patient all the time thinking that he and the friends are discussing some alarming symptom or formidable operation which he himself is by-and-by--to hear of. [6]
While engaged in contending with the priests, thou hast seen with calmness the young might of Persia roll on from the East, consuming the nations on its way, and, like a devouring monster, growing more and more formidable from every fresh prey. [10]
But Mr. Quaritch comes among us like that formidable angler of whom it is said, His hook he baited with a dragon's tail, And sat upon a rock and bobbed for whale. [6]
Both of us called it by that name, though I was not able to see where my formidable change had been made. [5]
It was nothing but this: Mr. Byles Gridley wore a pair of formidable spectacles with large round glasses. [6]
Some of these books are so formidable in their dimensions, so rusty and crabbed in their aspect, that it takes a considerable amount of courage to attack them. [6]
These mosquitoes had been persistently represented as being formidable and lawless; whereas 'the truth is, they are feeble, insignificant in size, diffident to a fault, sensitive'--and so on, and so on; you would have supposed he was talking about his family. [5]
True, General Satvrus asserted that he was strong enough, with the troops at his disposal, to defeat the formidable hordes; but a second dove, sent by the epitropus who had remained in Alexandria, alluded to serious disaster which it would scarcely be possible to avert. [10]
New and formidable aspects, hitherto unthought of, rose in his mind, and the figure of Eldon Parr loomed to Brobdingnagian proportions as he approached it. [9]
Wireless, not being as yet imprisoned in a Chinese wall of private cash and high-placed and formidable influence, will come to your aid and make your new campaign briefer and easier than the other one was. [5]
He talked boldly and naturally, and Natasha was strangely and agreeably struck by the fact that there was nothing formidable in this man about whom there was so much talk, but that on the contrary his smile was most naive, cheerful, and good-natured. [2]
Harry, champion, by acclamation, of the college heavy-weights, broad-shouldered, bull-necked, square-jawed, six feet and trimmings, a little science, lots of pluck, good-natured as a steer in peace, formidable as a red-eyed bison in the crack of hand-to-hand battle! [6]
Mr. Bernard had a wired cage ready for his formidable captives, and studied their habits and expression with a strange sort of interest. [6]
The villagers had a strong desire to tar-and-feather Injun Joe and ride him on a rail, for body-snatching, but so formidable was his character that nobody could be found who was willing to take the lead in the matter, so it was dropped. [5]
It shows in a striking way the English idea of her formidable importance. [5]
And it was a formidable mass indeed, for it numbered sixty-six articles. [5]
Consequently he was a formidable antagonist in a dispute. [5]

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