#stupendous

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ↗

— Henry Lawson

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#born #bred #characteristics #children #country

I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. ↗

— Anton Seidl

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#apparently #call #emphasis #help #horn

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle. ↗

— Pietro Mascagni

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#fiddle #fit #god #i #i am