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Meanings of great hulk in English

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Usage of great hulk in English
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Was that great hulk of a gorilla prowling about to meet Jim Cleve?
The Border Legion
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But in that great hulk of the older bull there was one other thing-age
Kazan
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After a time the great hulk of a man fell asleep and snored stertorously.
Man-Size
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The great hulk moved beside her, his thumb and fingers round the back of her neck.
Man-Size
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Gersten, a great hulk of a man, spoke almost as rarely as Clarence, and with as much authority.
Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
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Then, as the end burned, we'd feed that great hulk of wood inch by inch into the flame.
Scarlet
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He remained standing before her, shifting uneasily from one foot to the other, a great hulk in the gloom.
Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West
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A great hulk of a man was lounging over the rail of the poop-deck, looking down over the dock.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
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The great hulk was lying stranded, the waves were beating her, and she was about to go to pieces.
Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. / Final Memoir...
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Another great hulk went down.
Shelled by an Unseen Foe
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The great hulk of Goltres rose threatening above him, fretted by little waves, staring down from a hundred empty eyes.
The Forest Lovers
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And looming over all, the great hulk of Vesuvius against the misty sky, and the vast sea spreading to the horizon.
Cry to heaven
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Every passing wave did as it wished with the great hulk, and she rolled like a log in the long swell.
A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" / From the Diary of Number Five of ...
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Was there some subtile magnetism in this great hulk of a man that made itself felt in spite of its hamperings?
The Grafters
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Then Moran's lightning right shot out again, smartly, and seemed just to tap the great hulk on the side of the chin.
Cheerful—By Request
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In six seconds we were all there; and there was the great hulk of a two-thousand-ton ship looming up out of the night.
Out of the Fog: A Story of the Sea
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