...At the same time, a sort of balloon of prodigious size was constructedby command of Alexander, not far from Moscow, under the direction of aGerman artificer...
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...At this instant they struck the awning and lowered the yard with a prodigious rattle...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...Seest thou that cloud of dust,Sancho? It is raised by a prodigious army of divers nations, whoare on the march this way...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...It makes the country strong to hold and difficult to travel, but full of prodigious wild and dreadful prospects...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...It found us in a prodigious valley, strewn with rocks and where ran a foaming river...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
... It made a prodigious splash, sending a shower ofspray over Laputa and the Collar...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...Its prodigious height, and its form,resembling a sugar-loaf, filled me with wonder...
Olaudah Equiano 「The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African」
... We found the elephants in prodigious numbers on the southern bank...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... The numbers of large game above Libonta are prodigious, and they proved remarkably tame...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Cazembe is a most intelligent prince; he is a tall, stalwart man, who wears a peculiar kind of dress, made of crimson print, in the form of a prodigious kilt...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...The number of fish caught by weirs, baskets, and netsnow, as the waters decline, is prodigious...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...Here they hang insuch prodigious numbers, that frequently, large branches give waybeneath their accumulated weight...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...The lagoon of Batticaloa, and indeed all the still waters ofthis district, are remarkable for the numbers and prodigious sizeof the crocodiles which infest them...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
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