But other active organisms, very much larger than the Bacteria, attaining in fact the comparatively gigantic dimensions of 1/3000 of an inch or more, incessantly crossed the field of view.

She implied that he was morally as well as physically gigantic, and it was as much as he could do to keep from taking her in his arms on the spot.

In the first place, the great phantom of geological time rises before the student of this, as of all other, fragments of the history of our earth springing irrepressibly out of the facts, like the Djin from the jar which the fishermen so incautiously opened; and like the Djin again, being vaporous, shifting, and indefinable, but unmistakably gigantic.