Use giant in a sentence
Sentences starting with giant
- Giant in stature, so ascetic and refined was his mind, his life, that he had the intuition of a woman and, what was more, little of the bigotry of his brethren. [11]
Sentences ending with giant
- Then he had worked a little, afterwards more, and now, lastly, since he had seen what they had done to Pierre, with the hot but firm eagerness of an avenging giant. [11]
- But the grip with which he tore away Venters's grasping hands was that of a giant. [13]
- Hardly a month went by without one of these tramps arriving; and generally loaded with a tale about some princess or other wanting help to get her out of some far-away castle where she was held in captivity by a lawless scoundrel, usually a giant. [5]
- He had a weird faith in the young giant. [11]
- And yet he was not tall; but on his deep chest, his enormous square shoulders, and short, bandy legs, the muscles stood out like elastic balls, showing the connoisseur that in strength he was a giant. [10]
- The Crossing was the first instinctive reaching out of an infant nation which was one day to become a giant. [9]
- These facts, with the drawings of the water and the toads, are at the service of the distinguished scientists of Albany in New York, who were so much impressed by the Cardiff Giant. [4]
- All day the people sought the place, viewing with awe and superstition the shed of death, and the spot in the smithy where, it was said, Valmond had killed the giant. [11]
- Never a lonely outcast was so glad to welcome company as I was to greet the friendly giant. [5]
- The State of Ohio had now grown to be a giant. [7]
Short sentences using giant
- The giant seemed happy. [11]
More example sentences with the word giant in them
- A handsome, agile youth, to her sincere regret, had just fallen, but swiftly recovered his elasticity, and, springing to his feet, belaboured his opponent, a clumsy giant, so skilfully and vigorously that the bright blood streamed down his ugly face and big body. [10]
- He had never yet visited the northern part of the lake, there where it was so dark, and mysterious, and where--as old Nonna used to relate--evil spirits dwelt, and a giant covered with pumice-stone was compelled by a curse to live. [10]
- The under-world is yawning, and the giant serpent Apep has come forth from the realm of the dead. [10]
- And if you would like to know wherein the son of Severus resembles the giant of Macedon, you shall hear. [10]
- However, Orion went with his anxious friend to the ship-yard; the old ship-builder, a kind-hearted giant, was as ready and glad to undertake the rescue of the Sisters as if each one was his own mother. [10]
- But come, now, why should not a giant have a tail as well as a dragon? [6]
- These two mountains, which belong to the great system of which Marcy is the giant centre, and are in the neighborhood of five thousand feet high, on the southern outposts of the great mountains, form the gate-posts of the pass into the south country. [4]
- There were days when he and I never touched a hook, both being out of humour for study, when he told me yarns of Frederick of Prussia and his giant guard, of Florence and of Venice, and of the court of his Holiness of Rome. [9]
- Its watery ventricles were throbbing with the same systole and diastole as when, the blood of twenty years bounding in my own heart, I looked upon their giant mechanism. [6]
- And as they went the earth seemed suddenly to blossom anew, the glory of the Scarlet Hills burst upon them, and they could hear bugles calling far off and see giant figures trooping along the hills, all scarlet too, with streaming hair. [11]
- I knew him well, and when the giant lost his temper it was gone irrevocably until a fight was over. [9]
- But a giant weak in the legs and not standing upright!--keep him in the carawan, but never show him, never show him, for any persuasion that can be offered. [12]
- Even while she was still speaking, the friends exchanged significant glances; but scarcely had the last words fallen from her lips when the giant figure of the freedman passed through the door, which had remained open. [10]
- A giant Irishman was standing there, with shirt collar and vest unbuttoned, and no coat on. [5]
- To Major Sleeman was given the general superintendence of the giant task of ridding India of Thuggee, and he and his seventeen assistants accomplished it. [5]
- My brother Gabriel was born--he was a giant, his brain all fumbling and wild. [11]
- The leader, who was a giant, and carried the smallest instrument, outshone all the others in his incongruous splendor. [4]
- The people of Virginia have thus allowed this giant insurrection to make its nest within her borders; and this government has no choice left but to deal with it where it finds it. [7]
- Standing up, the very person of the Little Giant was contradictory, as was the man himself. [9]
- Talent is a very common family-trait; genius belongs rather to individuals;--just as you find one giant or one dwarf in a family, but rarely a whole brood of either. [6]
- Behind it slanted up, in giant steps, a forest-clad hill of a thousand feet, and in front of it the stream was dammed and lined with cane. [9]
- No painter then undertook to depict giant mountains with eternal snow upon summits which towered above the clouds. [10]
- One must not underrate the magnificence of this long-headed idea, one must not underestimate its giant possibilities in the matter of trooping the Church solidly together and keeping it so. [5]
- The giant was turned, and forced a passage through the maze. [10]
- The Egyptians appear to have handled these huge monoliths as our artisans handle hearthstones and doorsteps, for the land actually bristled with such giant columns. [6]
- In all this time signs of the proselyter an' the giant with the blue-ice eyes an' the gold beard seemed to fade dimmer out of the trail. [13]
- For the second time I took the hand of Charles O'Byrne, the celebrated Irish giant of the last century. [6]
- The giant sorrel thundered on--and on--and on. [13]
- They passed up this solid river of ice, this giant power at endless strife with the high hills, up towards its head. [11]
- As we stood there, a scarlet figure came winding in and out among the giant stones, crosses hanging at her girdle. [11]
- You can count the pulse of the giant wherever the tide runs up a creek; but if you want to look at the giant's tongue, you must go to Niagara. [6]
- The giant of the party had suffered most. [11]
- Away off on the opposite shore of the lake we could see some villages, and now for the first time we could observe the real difference between their proportions and those of the giant mountains at whose feet they slept. [5]
- In one of the hospitals I visited lay a wounded giant who had once been a truckman in a little town in Kent. [9]
- Valmond was in the grasp of a giant, and, struggle as he might, he could not withstand the powerful arms of his assailant. [11]
- He drew alongside the giant, who had suddenly grown quiet again. [11]
- Jim informed Stephen that the Little Giant had had a six-horse coach. [9]
- Here was the sturdy Stoffel Brinkerhoff brandishing his quarter-staff, like the giant Blanderon his oak-tree (for he scorned to carry any other weapon), and drumming a horrific tune upon the hard heads of the Swedish soldiery. [4]
- Minarets of mosques stood up like giant lamp-posts along these vast, meandering streets. [11]
- The grey-haired giant still has the strength of three youths. [10]
- Without the solid South the Little Giant will never live in the White House. [9]
- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? [7]
- Every little while some giant tree yielded the fight and fell crashing through the younger growth; and the unflagging thunder-peals came now in ear-splitting explosive bursts, keen and sharp, and unspeakably appalling. [5]
- Pierre made a sign to Bareback, and the Indian touched the giant on the arm. [11]
- After a little she raised her head, and looked up as one might look up toward the face of a giant, and then clasped her hands and lifted them high, imploringly, and began to plead. [5]
- The earth itself seemed far away, and he was toiling among vastnesses, himself a giant with colossal frame and huge, sprawling limbs. [11]
- But when she saw what she had done, and that the giant was greater than his years of brag, she repented, and hung a dead coyote at Pierre's door as a sign of her contempt. [11]
- And even the ruins of this giant city, writes Lavard, are such as to allow a very fair conclusion of its enormous size. [10]
- Just as the rifle of his giant foe swung above him, Byng realized that the third Boer was levelling a rifle directly at his breast. [11]
- When the giant reached the open space in front of the Fort, he looked slowly round him. [11]
- But quick,--to the Question, How was the Little Giant, artful in debate as he was, to get over that without offence to the great South? [9]
- Now the giant put it away, ran in upon the five, and cut right and left. [11]
- There are few precipices and jutting crags, and less is visible of the giant ribs and bones of the planet. [4]
- A giant Irish policeman, who seemed in continual danger of a violent death, and wholly indifferent to it, stood between the car tracks and halted the rush from time to time, driving the people like sheep from one side to the other. [9]
- Who shall have perfect self-control with a giant bib under the chin, tipped back on a chair that cannot be regulated, with a face covered by lather, and two plantation fingers holding the nose? [11]
- There are twelve peaks in this range higher than Mount Washington, and if we add those in the Great Smoky Mountains which overtop it, there are some twenty in this State higher than the granite giant of New Hampshire. [4]
- In the minute's pause following on his words, a giant figure suddenly appeared behind the dynamiters. [11]
- Every temple and palace was transformed into a giant candelabrum, and the rows of lamps on the quay stretched like tendrils of light from the dazzlingly illuminated marble Temple of Poseidon to the palace at Lochias, steeped in radiance. [10]
- On the bridge our giant captain, in uniform; at his side a little pilot in elaborately gold-laced uniform; on the forecastle a white mate and quartermaster or two, and a brilliant crowd of lascars standing by for business. [5]
- It is the ordinary thing; it makes no show, it compels no notice, it hasn't a detectible quality in it that entitles it to attention, or suggests the future giant its sap is suckling. [5]
- But in spite, or perhaps by means, of this rude environment, he grew to be a stalwart giant, reaching six feet four at nineteen, and fabulous stories are told of his feats of strength. [7]
- The Pyramids lay on the left bank of the Nile, in the silver moonshine, massive and awful, as if bruising the earth beneath them with their weight; the giant graves of mighty rulers. [10]
- At the sight of them the King joined in the cheers of thousands of voices on the shore; these giant animals were to him auxiliaries who could put to flight a whole corps of hostile cavalry, and Arsinoe-Philadelphus, the Queen, sympathized with his pleasure. [10]
- Nobody thought much of that at Fort Guidon, except, perhaps, Pierre, who sometimes said, "My simple king, some day you shall have your great chance again; but not as a king--as a giant, a man--voila! [11]
- In the event of his inability to fetch back a horse for her, they intended to make the giant sorrel carry double. [13]
- Then the thought of Fleda Druse shot into Rockwell's mind, and it harassed him during the hours Ingolby slept, and after the giant Gipsy had taken his departure just before the dawn. [11]
- It stood here, of course, a giant, when Columbus sailed from Spain, and perhaps some sentimental traveler will attach the name of Columbus to it. [4]
- I have spoken of a new species of titans who inhabited the giant buildings in Wall Street, New York, and fought among themselves for possession of the United States of America. [9]
- But there lacked not here supporters of the Little Giant, and discreet farmers of influence in their own counties who waited to hear the afternoon's debate before deciding. [9]
- A shrivelled soul, never too large, in the body of a powerful giant. [10]
- He is a most interesting giant, with a softness of voice and tenderness of feeling which I find very engaging. [6]
- The latter had more than once given the youths assembled there proofs of his giant strength, and his son Antyllus also frequently shared their exercises. [10]
- You claim that men may, if they choose, embarrass those whose duty it is to combat a giant rebellion, and then be dealt with in turn only as if there were no rebellion. [7]
- And yet without me, without my profession he was a helpless giant, at the mercy of those alert and vindictive lawmakers who sought to restrain and hamper him, to check his growth with their webs. [9]
- The giant pleases me, and what skillful fingers he has on his powerful hands! [10]
- I am a man of my word," he added with a vibrant intensity, and pointed to the limbs of a giant tree which stood at the edge of the distant forest. [9]
- The ship is made to struggle with the elements, and the giant has been tamed to obedience, and is manacled in bonds which an earthquake would hardly rend asunder. [6]
- Presently, with a look at Hilton, who nodded in reply, Ida lifted her cheek to Macavoy to kiss--Macavoy, the idle, ill- cared-for, boisterous giant. [11]
- Homer's heroes seemed like giant oaks, which far overtopped the little trees of the human wood. [10]
- Rudyard is looking like a giant that's had blood-letting, and he never goes near Jasmine, except when some one is with her. [11]
- Then the grey light of early dawn glimmered in the east, the sky began to brighten, and in the glowing splendor of the blushing morning rose solemnly in giant majesty the form of the sacred mountain. [10]
- I could at length see the huge form of the Giant of the Valley, scarred with avalanches, at the end of the vista; and it seemed not far off. [4]
- And he was known far and wide as the Little Giant. [9]
- But because he knew that the thing would pall, he took with him Macavoy the giant, to make him king instead. [11]
- It is a kind of a giant pod, as one may say,--tight everywhere, except in a little place in the middle, where you sit. [6]
- Sure his namesake killed a giant, too. [9]
- The rat lengthened itself and expanded until it was once more the giant covered with pumicestone; it walked no longer erect, however, but crawled along the ground at the feet of the beautiful woman, whimpering and howling like a whipped cur. [10]
- For miles it is well shaded with giant trees of enormous trunks, and a clean sidewalk runs by the fine road. [4]
- With her everything is on a giant scale--even her poverty; no other country can show anything to compare with it. [5]
- While the visitor is gazing at his vast shoes, which now can be used only as sledges, he will be told that the Giant was greatly respected by his neighbors as a man of ability and simple integrity. [4]
- The Gulf Stream is a benign, liquid force, flowing from under the ribs of the equator,--a white knight of the South going up to battle the giant of the North. [4]
- Its summit, divided into seven peaks, towered majestically aloft in the distance, dominating the heights and valleys far and near, glowing before the people like a giant ruby, irradiated by the light of a conflagration which was consuming the world. [10]
- Seeing this, Pierre instantly stepped forward to the giant. [11]
- Every other country in the world, perhaps, has a giant or two whose heads are away up and can be seen, but ours. [5]
- Your army is in the field, and if you return to your family, then will the giant help your enemies; they will defeat you, will capture your capital, and possibly something evil might befall your mother. [10]
- He finds himself in clover, so to speak, among rare old editions, books he has longed to look upon and never seen before, rarities, precious old volumes, incunabula, cradle-books, printed while the art was in its infancy,--its glorious infancy, for it was born a giant. [6]
- He climbed as if he had wings, the strength of a giant, and knew not the sense of fear. [13]
- First he must humble the giant to the earth, then make him into a great man again, with a new kind of courage. [11]
- The giant threw his voice up and out, so that it seemed to come from over the Fort to the Indians, weird and crying. [11]
- The Queen is his goddess; and who could remain unmoved when the giant bows obediently to the nod of his delicate sovereign, and devises and offers the most unprecedented things to win a smile from her lips? [10]
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