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Meanings of formidable man in English

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Usage of formidable man in English
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Michael Levy was the patriarch of the family -a formidable man.
The Guardian
2
A minister was a more formidable man than a general, in those days.
The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair / Or, True Stories from...
3
Well, Watson, we have helped a remarkable woman, and also a formidable man.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
4
And, indeed, within him there was a formidable man of business.
Poor Relations
5
But he was a formidable man, and Gavin respected him.
The black prism
6
Sue's grandfather was a formidable man, despite his stooped shoulders and white, wispy hair.
All the pretty dead girls
7
Pendreigh was a formidable man, a good friend perhaps, but a bad enemy for certain.
Funeral in Blue
8
The formidable man who had thus wantonly provoked the attack, was equally prompt in meeting it.
Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 2
9
He is an irritating, arrogant, and formidable man.
Changes
10
Only yesterday George Cannon had been a strange, formidable man, indefinitely older and infinitely cleverer than she.
Hilda Lessways
11
Now, at the last moment, he is withdrawn and another and more formidable man put into his place.
Rodney Stone
12
A more formidable man approached warily.
Gladiator
13
He twice had missed the nomination for presidency, but he was still the most formidable man in the senate.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
14
There was but one certain way of shaking the devilish self-control which has hitherto made you a formidable man.
No Thoroughfare
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Pop had been a formidable man in his day, but now his hand was stiff and his hair gray.
The Seventh Man
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Such was this formidable man.
Les Misérables
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