1 Abel was a shrewd, grave giant, illiterate, kind of heart, older than the other boys and with as good or better manners in the presence of ladies.
2 The town she was now seeing was like a baby grown overnight into a busy, sprawling giant.
3 As she half rose from her seat to look closer, the giant caught sight of her and his black face split in a grin of delighted recognition.
4 The South had been tilted as by a giant malicious hand, and those who had once ruled were now more helpless than their former slaves had ever been.
5 Atlanta these days was like a giant plant which had been cut to the ground but now was springing up again with sturdier shoots, thicker foliage, more numerous branches.
6 Reluctantly he slid out of his hiding place, a giant ragged figure, bare-footed, clad in denim breeches and a blue Union uniform jacket that was far too short and tight for his big frame.
7 She could never make plain to the weeping giant what a convent was.
8 Sometimes I think she's like the giant Antaeus who became stronger each time he touched Mother Earth.
9 Suddenly they heard a remote sound, like the hum of a giant insect, and following the high-road, which wound whiter through the surrounding twilight, a black object rushed across their vision.
10 She saw the prairie, flat in giant patches or rolling in long hummocks.
11 All about me giant grasshoppers, twice as big as any I had ever seen, were doing acrobatic feats among the dried vines.
12 He had only been there four months, and he was young, and a giant besides.
13 They spread in vast clouds overhead, writhing, curling; then, uniting in one giant river, they streamed away down the sky, stretching a black pall as far as the eye could reach.
14 He smiled briefly when he saw men dodge and duck at the long screechings of shells that were thrown in giant handfuls over them.
15 For I was sick, almost to death; and when, through the panic, everybody else fled, Scipio worked for me like a giant, and actually brought me back into life again.