Not even the overthrow of the old Roman empire was so colossal a disaster as this.

The wizard swore stoutly that the lake was there, millions and millions of barrels of oil, but he deemed it expedient to leave the country in a hurry, because Uncle Jap intimated to him in the most convincing manner that there was not room in it for so colossal a fraud.

He hoped that the vastness of such a plan, the effort necessary to develop so colossal an idea, would take complete possession of him, restoring to him his health, his faith, his pride in the supreme joy of the accomplished work.

" She was a slim maid to oppose so colossal a resistance as she did to anything in the least suggestive to sentiment in the leave-taking.

Neither they nor others have quite realised as yet the power which colossal wealth gives in modern conditions.