In Medieval and Tudor times feasts tended to be gargantuan often to celebrate coronations of Kings, religious occasions or end of harvests. |
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This time I have captured the gargantuan Turkish meat butty for posterity, here and in the photo's section forever more. |
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It's a gargantuan iron construction that weighs several hundredweight, and incorporates all sorts of spikes and crenellations. |
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On the plus side, while the menu was pretty limited, it was reasonably priced and the quantities were gargantuan. |
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Not merely a gargantuan egotist with boundless artistic ambition, he was a prankster on a grand scale. |
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The story's entire foundation is based upon a plot hole so gargantuan that anyone not suffering a brain cramp will identify it at once. |
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However, for those of us for whom it also is work, it is a stamina and endurance challenge of gargantuan proportions. |
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In the case she noticed a gargantuan broadsword, the blade about four and a half feet long. |
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It is quite possible that TR, were he alive today, would be the proud owner of a gargantuan SUV with a custom interior made out of ocelot hide. |
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The boom in mining around the world has boosted the company's exports of its gargantuan trucks and earth movers. |
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If you are downwind when the whales blow, there is no mistaking the content of their gargantuan diet. |
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You can only imagine what his total might have been if he'd had, say, his appetite for gargantuan scores. |
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My heart swelled to gargantuan proportions in my chest, and my smile broadened. |
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The To Do List has grown to gargantuan size and I'm not even making a dent in it at the moment. |
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It's a gargantuan challenge, but the possibility of continuing with a remote, technocratic Europe died this week. |
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This is a gargantuan pub with a vast forecourt and car park in front, a real restaurant and lots of nooks and crannies to get lost in. |
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These days the manufacturer bears little resemblance to the gargantuan outfit it once was. |
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The building was tall and thin, and in subsequent decades it was crowded out by gargantuan neighbors. |
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From her gargantuan handbag, she produced five paper plates and a jar of Marmite. |
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They long for gargantuan TVs, pool tables and funky barka loungers to keep them happy. |
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That, or its members knowingly turned a blind eye to the gargantuan scale of pilfering going on under their noses. |
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His house is a biscuit-free zone and he has replaced such sugary temptations with gargantuan bowls of fruit for him and his family to snack on. |
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Critics say Napa Valley has an ego, but what it really has is a gargantuan appetite for life. |
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He's at the center of a gargantuan deal that will determine how old and new media companies will evolve. |
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The everyday challenges of the fifth decade assume gargantuan dimensions in an industry that prizes youth. |
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While being scrutinised by a gargantuan grouper and innumerable smaller fish, I became aware of a more thrilling presence. |
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Growth of such gargantuan proportions, however, invites a corresponding magnification in risk exposure. |
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On the far wall there was a painting of a gargantuan man wearing a black eyepatch. |
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Nicole led me to a corner table displaying two bottles of Louis Roederer Cristal champagne and a gargantuan tin of beluga caviar. |
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It's a gargantuan, tightly-squeezed settlement of 16-lane roads, subway stations with 12 exits and looming, monolithic tower apartment blocks. |
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He looked at them, one after the other, giant monoliths old and new, gargantuan towers assembled in the sky by human hands. |
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In the center of the parking lot was a towering white building, casting a shadow like a gargantuan sundial. |
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Then I topped a gargantuan sesame seed bagel with a layer of creamy butter and a thick chunk of Gouda before biting into it. |
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One major plus of the hotel is its Le Cinq restaurant, where even the locals book ahead to tackle the gargantuan tasting menu. |
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The last I heard she was slowly sailing her yacht around Europe, a gargantuan task taking many summers. |
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The scale of the triumphal arch is gargantuan and this is reinforced by its highly simplified architectural detail. |
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Back in my country girl days, I once closed the front door, not knowing that a gargantuan stick insect was in the doorway. |
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Seven engaged columns, each painted totem-fashion with two gargantuan faces, punctuate the hallucinogenic scene. |
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Things got so bad during Wednesday's gargantuan meeting that the overworked coffee machine packed up. |
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The atrocities committed on all sides were horrendous and on a gargantuan scale. |
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The gargantuan black clouds were overcast by a dense, opaque fog, ever converging, camouflaged with the caliginous sky that surrounded. |
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Designed to be an ocean liner, the 150,000-grt vessel is fracturing the mold of simply becoming just another gargantuan cruise ship. |
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There were rudimentary stalactites and stalagmites protruding from ceiling and floor, like the teeth of some gargantuan creature's mouth. |
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His vulgar displays of vanity while in the house were truly gargantuan in proportion. |
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Being skinny, I have never had to worry about the side effects of such a gargantuan appetite. |
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A little disquietingly, as we finished, a gargantuan electric storm blew up in all directions and we had to run for home. |
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In the finale, the band escapes in a sort of shuttle-craft while a gargantuan Eddie stomps the stage to pieces. |
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As befits a man with a gargantuan appetite, he chose the menu himself. |
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If Wallace is frequently overpowered by some of the league's more gargantuan pivotmen, guarding Jermaine O'Neal is Big Ben's chance to push around someone else. |
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I had enough of pebbles being kicked up at my car, of balls purposely thrown at my windshield, of gargantuan sized twelve year olds banging on my trunk. |
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As he moved, his sea-green scales hissed against each other, armor plates the size of dinner dishes protecting the soft flesh of his gargantuan body. |
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Huddled against each other were two gargantuan dragons, so large that a passing breath might have sucked all of my eight feet into the depths of a nostril. |
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The death of the gargantuan Hummer marks the passing of our obsession with largeness. |
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I suppose, in the end, I was a little disappointed, not because each of these wasn't a big, beefy concept with a positively gargantuan hinterland of potential consequences. |
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The citizen is dwarfed by the gargantuan nature of the institutions and of globalisation. |
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When we finally arrived on the plain and looked back, it seemed impossible we had actually crossed such gargantuan peaks. |
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Yet now we need banks to lend more to deserving customers to sustain recovery while simultaneously reducing their gargantuan size. |
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Former assistants at LA's gargantuan record store Amoeba Music turned sun-dappled beat combo. |
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It will show you what a gargantuan task it would be to head down that road. |
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Europe has proved capable of mobilising gargantuan amounts of money for its banks. |
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Once this gargantuan undertaking was finished, Fersen took a few months' break and then started writing material for a new album. |
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Here are a few examples, the very mention of which is enough to give you a gargantuan appetite! |
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All physicians depend on systems, from the local ones in their private offices to the gargantuan ones of national health care. |
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The challenges facing the country are gargantuan, and the pace of recovery and reconstruction often painfully slow. |
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From extreme conditions and insurgent Snow Pirates to hostile gargantuan alien Akrid, all that you can trust are your instincts. |
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I learned belatedly from my son how to send Adobe.pdf documents that could include pictures that werent of a gargantuan size. |
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To establish such a far-reaching and unprecedented court before the end of the century is a task of gargantuan proportion. |
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There is a disproportion between the gargantuan number of written things, and the limited time to read them. |
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A whole new sector with a gargantuan appetite for power was emerging. |
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She sat at the table in front of us and proceeded to order an enormous earthenware jug of red wine and a gargantuan bowl of spaghetti with clam sauce. |
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And as far as trolls go, ESPN is like Jotnar, the gargantuan mountain troll wreaking havoc in the Trollhunter films. |
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Today, researchers are flummoxed as to the whereabouts of this gargantuan cultural artifact. |
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The other funeral home is not in operation because it is behind the gargantuan fence and considered part of the red zone. |
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There are gargantuan histories of the birth of hip-hop, many of which Ed used for his research. |
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Way out in the corners of the galaxy, there are objects so massive that they curve light into gargantuan gravitational lenses, distorting and magnifying objects behind them. |
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The Indian army has an impressive scheme to try to clean the glacier by building a gargantuan aerial cableway that will cart supplies up and carry waste down. |
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Since an imperial harem numbered more than 5,000 wives, concubines, and eunuch guards at the height of the dynasty, the scale of cooking was gargantuan. |
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We made a few gargantuan strides, leapt three or four times more, and sat down at last in a lichenous hollow. |
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Given the party's current unpopularity in Scotland, and the clear alternative articulated by the SNP, this seems like an improbable and gargantuan task with just three months to polling day. |
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The Nephilim, interpreted here as fallen angels, are re-imagined as gargantuan stone creatures who aid Noah's epic construction. |
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Ranging from the bipedal hunter, a fast running saurus living in plains, to the gargantuan herbivorous Megasaur or the dreaded Carnosaur preying on all living creatures, those beasts were collectively known as Dragons. |
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At the same time, some of the most venerable institutions of the financial word bit the dust, crippled by gargantuan losses that threatened their survival and by a meltdown in their share prices. |
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More fundamentally, there is a growing sense among the public that the middle class is no longer sharing in the nation's prosperity, but actually losing ground while an elite few reap gargantuan profits. |
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In the gargantuan coda, after gradually descending by half steps, the basses again settle on E, alternating with D-sharp, increasing the suspense as the movement drives to its triumphant conclusion. |
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Bell ExpressVu intervened and turned the entire case into a gargantuan exercise, where tens of thousands of pages of material were filed by Bell ExpressVu as intervener. |
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The individuals and executives involved in these various agencies are extremely talented and well-meaning, but it is a rickety, over-administered, gargantuan, and increasingly ineffective operation. |
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Paleontologists have started using a shotgun in the hunt for a gargantuan dinosaur dubbed Seismosaurus. |
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By counting each e-mail sent by a white-collar wrongdoer as a separate case of wire fraud, prosecutors can threaten him with a gargantuan sentence unless he confesses, or informs on his boss. |
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Madam President, I congratulate all our rapporteurs in undertaking this gargantuan effort today and shall focus briefly on two points: Council transparency and Mr Doorn's report on subsidiarity. |
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Going from vernissage to exhibition we saw each other again, and this is how a genuine family friendship was formed. A friendship dotted with walks in Venice, gargantuan New Year meals, birthdays and weddings. |
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At the end of October, the Commission will come to a decision on the principles and criteria by which this will be guided, and on how, organisationally speaking, we are going to get on top of this gargantuan task. |
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In person, you can see why it proved such a gargantuan task. |
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I would merely like to retrace our steps in this debate for a moment to, when talking about petitions and the gargantuan ventures brought about by globalisation, I made an analogy: the citizen and the giant. |
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Yet, not only were we pressured to conduct speedy, telescoped committee hearings on the numerous important matters covered by this gargantuan bill, now we are told that the debate in this chamber must be truncated. |
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Even if the moratorium were lifted, it would be a gargantuan task to go through these files one by one, getting rid of any inappropriate information. |
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It has a gargantuan task, and a task worthy of all the money we can throw in that direction, because we live in a democracy that only thrives on an informed public. |
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Will his gargantuan stack of 107 guest rooms and suites, spas and ballroom, library, restaurants, cafes, sky bars and swimming pool – not to mention the art gallery – really disappear in a shimmering apparition? |
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PeaceHealth Medical Group has begun the gargantuan task of revaccinating up to 20,000 patients who were given vaccines that had been stored at improper temperatures last year. |
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Although Nazy and I eventually figured out a way to cram the pieces of the boot into the binding, our group, with Blitz, had ascended a gargantuan T-bar draglift. |
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The patient's physicians had always allowed him to indulge a gargantuan appetite, countering his intake and regulating his embonpoint by a heroic diet of purges and enemas. |
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There's calamari, hand-prepared scampi and a gargantuan seafood platter featuring a selection of Colmans' hot and cold fish served with salads and chips. |
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Yahner was so gargantuan, in fact, that he was able to straddle a line of children and walk over their heads with his peg legs hidden under tie-dyed pant legs. |
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Following Patrick down to the cellar, I came face to face with gargantuan barrels carved with images of nubile nymphets, dating back to the turn of the 19th century. |
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Presenting three architects with this gargantuan task of commenting on the city seemed akin to giving three horologists the sun, and telling them to carefully pick it apart. |
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The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage. |
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