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Meanings of very formidable in English

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Usage of very formidable in English
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If this is living in the country, it is nothing very formidable.
Emma
2
It looked very formidable in the half-light, like a scorpion or centipede.
A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Mont...
3
A match against France in Paris is always a very formidable assignment.
The Irish Times
4
This is a very formidable list of objections; and certainly deserves consideration.
The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health
5
But the English had not been preparing for a very formidable effort.
Lectures on Modern history
6
That we may depend on-somevery formidable force at the very lowest.
The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea
7
Indeed, the latter does not appear to have ever been very formidable.
The Parasite: A Story
8
Here the crowd was less dangerous, but still very formidable-tomy eyes.
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
9
Because we actually do believe we are a very formidable outfit.
The Irish Times
10
Nor did the fog in itself appear to her very formidable.
Major Vigoureux
11
The infantry force which General Roberts had assembled was a very formidable one.
The Great Boer War
12
In the right hands, it would be a very formidable weapon.
The outcast
13
They seldom attack men; but if assailed are very formidable antagonists.
On the Pampas; Or, The Young Settlers
14
It was, indeed, a troop of very formidable baboons of the dog-faced species.
Five Weeks in a Balloon / Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa...
15
It was a very formidable animal, weighing from seven to eight hundred pounds.
The Adventures of a Forty-niner / An Historic Description of Cal...
16
The lion is not so very formidable a beast, after all.
Hendricks the Hunter; Or, The Border Farm: A Tale of Zululand
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