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  • He was dressed formally for dinner in a stiff, blue tunic with a red sash and bright red breeches, all layered with tremen - dous amounts of yellow piping and gold braid.

    Stalling 2010

  • Aides and advisers to the Clintons feel comfortable that the vetting of Bill Clinton will not disqualify Hillary from becoming Secretary of State, and argue that the former president could be a tremen ...

    Clinton Aides Comfortable With Bill's Vetting, Worried About Press 2008

  • Aides and advisers to the Clintons feel comfortable that the vetting of Bill Clinton will not disqualify Hillary from becoming Secretary of State, and argue that the former president could be a tremen ...

    Clinton Aides Comfortable With Bill's Vetting, Worried About Press 2008

  • Like many equipment upgrades, the appearance of 76mm Shermans in the independent tank battalions varied tremen - dously.

    Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

  • Braumin noted that there was a tremor in his voice, and it seemed to the abbot as if De'Unnero was engaged in a tremen - dous inner struggle at that moment.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • Braumin noted that there was a tremor in his voice, and it seemed to the abbot as if De'Unnero was engaged in a tremen - dous inner struggle at that moment.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • He was dressed formally for dinner in a stiff, blue tunic with a red sash and bright red breeches, all layered with tremen - dous amounts of yellow piping and gold braid.

    Kendermore Kirchoff, Mary 1989

  • Janko, less imaginative, compared this tremen - dous fortress with the scrawny castles he knew along the Vistula, the ones that had been regularly destroyed at fifty-year intervals, and said: 'Nobody could ever knock this one down.'

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • It expanded rapidly into the shape of a dragon, with six legs, six wings, and a tremen - dously toothed mouth.

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

  • Time had worn the sharp edges, except around the shipyards where the corpses of tremen - dous cranes and mysterious machines lay like scattered, corroded, vanquished trolls.

    The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972

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