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colossus
1. he is still a Colossus, still my Achilles raging,
2. When he bellowed at Ghazahg the colossus hesitated for the shortest instant
3. The jungle was a black colossus that locked the ruin-littered glade in ebon arms
4. The colossus was splintering the massive panels as if they were of cardboard
5. They had seen no sign of the colossus
6. dows colossus is protected by copyrights reaffirming the
7. Time passed in that way with the Colossus of Rhodes and snake charmers until his wife told him that there were only three pounds of dried meat and a sack of rice left in the pantry
8. twenty sinking of the MV Colossus cruise ship, with the loss
9. ’’ Said the colossus in the group, taking out a pair of handcuffs from his equipment belt and then advancing on Gallien while careful not to block the line of fire of his partner
10. Gallien, a lot less massive and at least fifteen centimeters shorter that the colossus, didn’t dare resist him and was brutally turned around and pushed face first against the wall
11. The colossus holding him by one arm pushed him towards the lounge, allowing him to see a small, futuristic vehicle that was now parked on the carpet
12. Gallien was made to sit on one of the three seats, with the colossus sitting inside as well while facing him
13. With the pitcher of wine and the two cups in his hands, the colossus walked heavily towards Marcelus and the woman, looking at both with murder in his eyes
14. Completely ignoring Marcelus, who was by now as tense as a spring, the colossus spoke in his most threatening tone
15. The colossus lost his grip on his knife and crashed into the table previously used by Diane and Marcelus, breaking it into pieces
16. The colossus fell down heavily on top of a table and three customers, crushing them
17. he’d hit the colossus in front of him the van would’ve stopped anyway with more
18. Unit that used the Colossus, Captain Jerry
19. Beneath the arch of LAW, the Colossus of Rule rose up out of the ground to protect those who were entering from those who were not
20. The Colossus grabbed love's sign and scraped the carnage from its sandals
21. “My? My is the word?” A replica of the Colossus of Rule appeared in her hands
22. “Great Hate?” In a single stride Her Colossus took her to the Capital Arch, where the blast-proof, glass enclosed, petrified Arch of love was on permanent display in the rotunda of the Arch of LAW
23. Finally the colossus calmed down
24. a colossus of size and influence, it was small wonder that the
25. a Brobdingnagian, a Zeus and a Colossus of Rhodes all
26. They began to call it maliciously the Colossus of Nero
27. The two empty chairs on the other side of the table seemed no less threaten¬ing than Truscott and Meadows, and the silent colossus beside the door crushed him with its rock-like presence – did it have thoughts? what went on inside that enormous stone skull?
28. I was very far then from expecting the change you have just informed me of; namely, that four years afterwards, this colossus of power would be overthrown
29. crouching woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what caused what we have to relate to vanish
30. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its retreat
31. high, his pectoral muscles were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird
32. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the handle, with the blade downward, a butcher's pole-axe for slaughtering cattle
33. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his enormous crupper,
34. On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, and said:—
35. Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly of the colossus could be distinguished
36. The brat had been accepted and sheltered by the colossus
37. It seemed as though the miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed on rejected scraps
38. The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the back of the colossus amid claps of thunder
39. The Trebizónico added his colossus bellow, repeating the words
40. There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes
41. A heavy stifling atmosphere hung over the fallen Colossus
42. Close to him was a narrow-minded, stupid, but good-natured and obliging fellow, a sort of Colossus, Kobylin by name
43. Take the Colossus of Rhodes, for instance, that's worth something
