Framed by palm fronds and the trunk of a gigantic cuipo tree, the scene could be an engraving in an old, old book.
"I don't want it to become a gigantic thing," she said at a trunk show at the J House hotel in Greenwich, Conn., last spring, an event that served as a kind of welcome-back party.
In the Christie's catalog we see Staffordshire figures of lions eating their tamers, bulldogs baiting bulls and a country scene with a shepherd and his sheep quietly being menaced by a gigantic snake hiding in a tree trunk.
We stopped at the super on the way out of the city to buy junk food and alcohol and ice, which we dropped by the bagful into a gigantic cooler that took up almost the entire trunk.
The gigantic animals came plodding towards us, ears flapping, trunks flying and went right for it.
As we unpacked, the musth bull Smokey appeared in a parade of pomp, swinging his trunk from side to side like a gigantic octopus limb that extended out many meters, retracting in a curl over itself and his head as if it had a mind of its own.
Blaž's prize possession is a gigantic Winnie-the-Pooh-style hive that he transplanted from a tree trunk.
Now she stands gigantic in the morning with a scab on her forehead thick as a tree trunk.
For decades, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the gigantic rent-stabilized apartment complex built in Manhattan in the nineteen-forties, offered its tenants free trunk-storage service.
By Nick Paumgarten For decades, Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, the gigantic rent-stabilized apartment complex built in Manhattan in the nineteen-forties, offered its tenants free trunk-storage service.
