The captain stood as if stupefied, the little professor's eyes were as big as watch-glasses, and the mate had to catch hold of a back-stay to prevent himself from falling.

So long as the conflict of preparation goes on, then the bigger the army your adversary maintains under arms the bigger is his expenditure and the less his earning power.

The biggest of the two water-logged ones was the heaviest.

"The biggest I ever see was fourteen an' a half," he said, and there was a touch of awe in his voice.

The biggest and the most dangerous of all crocodiles in the world is the salt water crocodile, which can grow upto 25 feet.

His looking big is rather a tumour than greatness.

That was where his books grew, and the biggest and finest of them was "Hortus Cliffortianus," the account of his patron's garden.

The more you go into the study of the automobile on the farm, the bigger becomes its significance.

In this country there are very large dogs, almost as big as asses, which are employed in hunting the wild beasts, especially wild oxen called Boyamini.

She tuk me once a-settin' up on top a load er hay: My feet shets out the wagon, and my head's a mile away; She took her Ma in our back yard, a-hanging out the clothes, With hands as big as buckets, and a face that's mostly nose.

'Tis as big as bull-dogs they are; ivery time they bite you you lose a limb.

he broke out impetuously, making a furious slap at his face; "the poet doesn't say that the Lotus Eaters were eaten up themselves by such cursed mosquitoes as these, and they're sufficient evidence that we're in Kamchatkathey don't grow as big as bumblebees in any other country!"

Lord and Lady Curzon never leave the palace without an escort of giant warriors from the Sikh tribe, who wear dazzling uniforms of red, turbans as big as bushel baskets, and sit on their horses like centaurs.

There are three big bushes which are quite white, with roses as big as cabbages.

There they sat, great fragments, glistening in the sunlight, as big as cabins.

In the forest some of the huge sipas, or rope vines, which were as big as cables, bore clusters of fragrant flowers.

In our museum at 'ome they've a lamb with six legs, and hairylight stones as big as cannon-balls; but there ain't none of that sort 'ere, and I'm dog-tired trapesing over these boards, I am!

[5010]Now long tails and trains, and then short, up, down, high, low, thick, thin, &c.; now little or no bands, then as big as cart wheels; now loose bodies, then great farthingales and close girt, &c.

Thousands and thousands of men were encamped around the city, occupying new villages made of canvas, rectangular streets of tents, cities of wooden cabins, and constructions as big as churches whose canvas walls were trembling under the violent squalls of wind.

It is covered with pink morning-glories as big as coffee cups.

If we are to believe all the Californians tell us some of the artificial flies out there must be as big as crows.

He said to me 'Tis not an action worthy of a man; He glared at me with eyes as big as cups And face an egg-plant blue.

Who, walking on Chester walls in those days, and seeing the Brassica oleracea, where it grows in abundance, would have supposed that from it would spring cabbages as big as drums, and cauliflowers as florid as a bishop's wig? Dov.

On other piers were lined up, by the thousands, pairs of gray wheels, the support of cannons and trucks; boxes as big as dwellings that contained aeroplanes; huge pieces of steel that served as scaffolding for heavy artillery; great boxes of guns and cartridges; huge cases of preserved food and sanitary supplies,all the provisioning of the army struggling in the extreme end of the Mediterranean.

They were big hawks almost as big as eagles, with very broad rounded wings, and instead of travelling straight like other birds they moved in wide circles, so that they progressed very slowly.