gargantuanly

Example Sentences

• "Auntie coughed gargantuanly."
• "“I haven’t the remotest idea.” / “Then how can you state so confidently that this painting is not a picture of his wife?” / […] “I can’t be positive, of course,” he returned irritably. “I know she wasn’t and that is good enough for me.” / Williams laughed, Gargantuanly good-humored. “You’re young, Mr. Norris, and you don’t like to think of youth mated with age. But it’s done quite often I assure you, and it was done in this case, too. Just look here. This is proof enough for me.”"
• "No one, of course, can pass through life, however humdrum, and not be made aware of a great deal that is ludicrous; but if there is any place in the world where there is more of the egregiously funny to be met with than anywhere else it is on and beside the sea. The reason is apparent: the folk who do the hard work of the sea, the sailormen, are in their mental make-up so vastly more simple than the most simple of those who remain ashore that the contrasts engendered are Gargantuanly ludicrous."
• "On his large feet Marshal Feng [Yuxiang] stands a full, massive six feet tall. He towered Gargantuanly, last week, during his address to slender, slant-eyed students of both sexes at the New Nationalist University in Nanking."
• "And there is that vast, comfortable urge to dine Gargantuanly on black, slippery, upholstered seats in old brown brasseries, and through a long evening, cloudy with smoke and argument, behind beer in beakers and mountains of redolent, satisfying Teutonic fare, to let life roll by in pageant after pageant like a Wagnerian opera, full of thunder and magic."
• "Tides of ever-increasing height and violence surged up and up, gripping not only the tens of thousands of miles of solar atmosphere and photosphere, but also clutching deeper and deeper into the very quasi-solid interior of the suns themselves. And, as the stupendous tides mounted, so increased the sun-quakes and volcanoes; the Gargantuanly rumbling warnings of that which was to come from below."