It was a stupendous piece of skill, but it only earned him par for the hole.
The docks are stupendous buildings, but what impressed me most were the splendid arrangements for unloading vessels, which came close up to the quays, and disembarked their cargoes into the shops as it were.
And in a stupendous folie de grandeur Walpole then built a jewel-like house to contain them at Houghton in Norfolk, which became a kind of sarcophagus for the family's fortune requiring, as well as the sale of the collection, several dynastic marriages to stabilise affairs.
Tom Johnson peeled off the back of a scrum and a consolation try looked inevitable but Easter, just as inevitably, made a stupendous tackle.
SCIENTIFIC cosmology is a tale of three stupendous realisations: the Earth is one of many planets, the sun is one of myriad stars and the Milky Way is just one of countless galaxies.
But this gives a flavour The alcohol consumption before, during and after this Muslim wedding was stupendous... Gadzhi had flown in from the Urals thousands of bottles of Beluga Export vodka ("Best consumed with caviar").
Fried eggs are replaced with frugal grains, wine with water, stupendous suppers with salads.
No! the swelling flood of human life rises up to the topmost height of all its ancient barriers way must be found for it, or it will overleap them all!Yes!—the world is on the eve of a stupendous social change.
But that still left some 900m illiterates, more than half of them in India, only about half of whose billion people can read or write.In the rich world, almost everyone can read and write, a stupendous change achieved mostly in the past 300 years.
Harvard's endowment is now a stupendous $18 billion.As education is an ever-interesting Aunt Sally, inevitably there are critics of the academic art of money-squeezing.
For a while he embraced the Catholic mysticism of St John of the Cross, which led to stupendous explosions of timpani.
