Maurice looks up with a sigh. The growing tremors were preventing him from completing the detail on a pair of satin slippers. That's Bunyan coming down the mountain, sure as hell, and this time of year, after the rains, he's going to want his Brobdingnagian pair of boots repaired. The cobbler has stopped trying to explain that he's not a tent maker or carpenter.
Well, at least the work keeps the migrants busy. Is it too much to ask to just be left alone with a pair of fine satin slippers?
09 September 2010
brobdingnagian
Following her brush with death caused by a long, debilitating bout of malaria, Selvinia looked forward to getting out of her pyjamas for the first time in three months. Unfortunately, her normal clothes took on brobdingnagian proportions on her now-wasted frame.
brobdingnagian
brɒbdɪŋˈnæɡɪən - Of or relating to a gigantic person or thing.
Through all the success that he had experienced since his lottery win, the cosmetic surgery procedures and the subsequent multitude of people wanting to be his 'friend', Jonathan's ego began to assume brobdingnagian proportions.
Through all the success that he had experienced since his lottery win, the cosmetic surgery procedures and the subsequent multitude of people wanting to be his 'friend', Jonathan's ego began to assume brobdingnagian proportions.
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