Nor could you wonder had you witnessed a recent experience of mine when, in the armor of blissful and
stupendous ignorance, I gaily narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society on the occasion of my last trip to London.
They attempted, accordingly, to penetrate the mountains by following up one of the branches of the Popo Agie, but soon found themselves in the midst of
stupendous crags and precipices that barred all progress.
Even in our own day there are seen the traces of animals, if not the animals themselves, of
stupendous size--veritable survivals from earlier ages, preserved by some special qualities in their habitats.
As the
stupendous collection were yet concealed by cloths, lest the envious dust should injure their complexions, Nell bestirred herself to assist in the embellishment of the room, in which her grandfather also was of great service.
The elephants of Aethiopia are of so
stupendous a size, that when I was mounted on a large mule I could not reach with my hand within two spans of the top of their backs.
Pete's air of distinguished valor had grown upon him until it threatened
stupendous dimensions.
At length they emerged from these
stupendous defiles, and continued for several miles along the bank of Hoback's River, through one of the stern mountain valleys.
And the ignorance of people about here is
stupendous. I don't lay claim to anything else than having used some opportunities which have not come within everybody's reach; but there is no stifling the offence of being young, and a new-comer, and happening to know something more than the old inhabitants.
Even as it was divined, the Oligarchy was there--a fact established in blood, a
stupendous and awful reality.
Rising nobly among its noble fellows, one
stupendous peak reared its giant head thousands of feet above the others.
I met his kiss and I had to make, while I folded him for a minute in my arms, the most
stupendous effort not to cry.
Now I understood the
stupendous calamity that had overtaken England.