"Tremendous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the thing, can't you, Tubby?" said Rob, who saw that the strain on the other's arms must be tremendous, judging from the ...
— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson
... envy, there is no situation for which I would exchange my own. My felicity is of the colour of my mind; my prospects are those, for the fruition of which heaven created me. What have I done to deserve so singular a blessing? Is it possible that no wayward fate, no unforeseen and tremendous disaster should come between ...
— Italian Letters, Vols. I and II • William Godwin
... A tremendous agitation in favour of his reprieve broke out at once. Apart from the peculiar circumstances under which the crime was committed, it was urged that Mr. Lyndon's services to the country as an inventor should ...
— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges
... miracles had supernatural sources of information. The moral difficulty which emerges is obvious. The Paley conception of the Deity is, in fact, coincident with Bentham's conception of the sovereign. He is simply an invisible sovereign, operating by tremendous sanctions. The sanctions are 'external,' that is to say, pains and pleasures, annexed to conduct by the volition of the sovereign, not intrinsic consequences of the conduct itself. Such a conception, thoroughly carried through, ...
— The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) - James Mill • Leslie Stephen
... most trifling incidents into excuses for amusing the little boy with his stories. One night while he was hunting for a piece of candle on the shelf that took the place of a mantel over the fireplace, he knocked down a tin plate. It fell upon the hearth with a tremendous clatter. ...
— Nights With Uncle Remus - Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation • Joel Chandler Harris
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