Read full poem →It is this shining record of tremendous achieve-
ment that Republican managers and the Chicago
Dictionary Entry
Awe-inspiring; terrific.
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Poetry examples for “tremendous”
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Read full poem →But God be with the Clown --
Who ponders this tremendous scene --
This whole Experiment of Green --
Read full poem →The Mountain sat upon the Plain
In his tremendous Chair --
His observation omnifold,
Read full poem →The steady tramp of sixteen to twenty miles a day did the women
good; the food _en route_ was abundant and eaten with tremendous
appetite. The pilgrims on arrival in London were a justification in
Read full poem →When the fire flashes from a warrior's eye,
And his tremendous hand is grasping it,
And his dark brow for very wrath is knit?
Read full poem →Thy name with Alfred's, and the great of yore
Gently commingling, gives tremendous birth
To a loud hymn, that sounds far, far away
Read full poem →English ecclesiastical system. Puritanism, a phenomenon of the most
tremendous importance at a certain period of English history, has so
completely disappeared from the modern world, that the utterances of a
Read full poem →Again in tones of ire
I hear a God’s tremendous voice,--
“Be counselled, and retire.”
Read full poem →Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar,
Some white tremendous daybreak. And the light,
Returning, shall give back the golden hours,
Read full poem →Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar,
Some white tremendous daybreak. And the light,
Returning, shall give back the golden hours,
