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Meanings of colossal figure in English

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Usage of colossal figure in English
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Gwin still lives, the most colossal figure in the history of California.
California Sketches, New Series
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Over the altar, a colossal figure of Christ in blue and gold mosaic.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo / Comprising a Tour Thro...
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The surgeon is forgotten, and Hauptmann stands a colossal figure before the world.
Anarchism and Other Essays
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He erected here, at any rate, a still more colossal figure.
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume...
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The colossal figure of the Centaur was plainly distinguishable.
Dona Perfecta
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A colossal figure looming through the misty air struck me with a sense of familiarity.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
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And behind this colossal figure of triumph the noble horseman still reined in his frightened chargers.
The Web of Life
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Greece appears upon the scene, and behind Greece looms the colossal figure of the Roman Empire.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume...
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This colossal figure, five storeys high, extends from the pavement of the church to the roof.
The Cathedral
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Patterson, as a " colossal figure" on the Jamaican political scene.
The Irish Times
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The Acropolis was adorned with another colossal figure of Athena, in bronze, also the work of Phidias.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
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He fancied himself before a secret tribunal in the midst of which towered San Giacinto's colossal figure.
Sant' Ilario
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The artist evidently took a corpse for a model and proportioned his colossal figure by careful measurement.
The American Goliah
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Most of his biographers-andamong them there are some who are themselves historical-haveleft that colossal figure incomplete.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books / with Introductions, Not...
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A colossal figure, carved apparently in some white stone, loomed indistinctly beyond the rhododendrons through the hazy downpour.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
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Ian McEwan He was a modern master, a colossal figure in American letters, the finest writer working in English.
The Guardian
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