But Ruthie was older, and she knew the tremendousness of the time.

His body throbbed with the tremendousness of the idea that had slammed into his mind.

Standing there, flashingly picturing the tremendousness of what had already happened, he felt his first terrible fear.

The tremendousness of what it meant, this world-wide balancing of immense forces.

It was a world apart; and Morton, for the first time in years, felt the alien, abnormal tremendousness of it.

The tremendousness of the blunder made him cringe.

This was his bid for power; and his whole body and brain were alert and deadly with the tremendousness of the knowledge.

Carbone is known locally as Sua Tremendità or "Your Tremendousness".

But Lorenzo took his own tremendousness for granted, and with genial democracy he admitted: "Oh, they used to ask for my fist now and then."

Every minute the tremendousness of this vast land was becoming more apparent-the importance of staying alive and living, actually living here, as he would have to do.

Their warrings, their strifes, their internecine intrigues and connivings were inevitable because of the tremendousness and capability-and the limitations-of their minds.

His brain lifted up, up in his effort to grasp the tremendousness of the dull-metaled immensity of what was spread here under a summer sun beneath a sky as blue as a remote southern sea.

There were comfortable chairs, a magnificent rag rug and - It was the girl who closed the door firmly and - he trembled with the tremendousness of the opportunity - she walked ahead of him to the sixth door.

"I'm going to discover a way," he wrote, casting forward to "On the Road" while he was completing "The Town and the City," "of preserving the big rushing tremendousness in me and in all poets."