The North is generally the region of strength, and many local circumstances render it probable that the most Northern of the proposed confederacies would, at a period not very distant, be unquestionably more
formidable than any of the others.
Our Soldiers and Lowest Classes of Workmen are Triangles with two equal sides, each about eleven inches long, and a base or third side so short (often not exceeding half an inch) that they form at their vertices a very sharp and
formidable angle.
It may be imagined that a gentleman so qualified and so disposed, was in no danger of becoming
formidable to the learned seminaries of Eton or Westminster.
Since Tom's harassed conscience had managed to drive him to the lawyer's house by night and wring a dread tale from lips that had been sealed with the dismalest and most
formidable of oaths, Huck's confidence in the human race was well-nigh obliterated.
And in these disastrous times, when the ingenuity of man has multiplied the power of weapons of war, it was possible that, without the knowledge of others, a State might try to work such a
formidable engine.
They could count the numerous islets of the lake, inhabited by the Biddiomahs, a race of bloodthirsty and
formidable pirates, who are as greatly feared when neighbors as are the Touaregs of Sahara.
But by night he was deprived of his most
formidable weapon, his ugliness.
The other seems to draw its strength from the very soul of the world, its
formidable ally, held to obedience by the frailest bonds, like a fierce ghost captured in a snare of something even finer than spun silk.
To assume the right to new values--that is the most
formidable assumption for a load-bearing and reverent spirit.
Today it was Horta, the boar, which came down toward the watcher in the old tree--Horta, the boar, whose
formidable tusks and diabolical temper preserved him from all but the most ferocious or most famished of the largest carnivora.
Inroads were gradually made upon the prerogative, in favor of liberty, first by the barons, and afterwards by the people, till the greatest part of its most
formidable pretensions became extinct.
Such
formidable accounts of her ladyship, and her manner of living, quite frightened Maria Lucas who had been little used to company, and she looked forward to her introduction at Rosings with as much apprehension as her father had done to his presentation at St.