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1. "Why were you on the Brother's Formidable?" he asked about meeting her on that ship
2. It was a big liner, longer than the Brothers Formidable and with better appointed but tighter cabins decorated in a 52nd century theme and hung with great reproductions of some classic photographs from that era
3. Future History would show that the forces of the Mighty Valotin and his Warrior Queen Valeria saved Europe; in battle they were formidable and had no equal
4. She is a fighter and a very formidable one I might add; I have fought by her side on many occasions
5. ” He knew in his mind Tdeshi had been in that body til they sailed on the Brother’s Formidable
6. including an aged but still formidable figure that Tom suspected was
7. This Grinly has become a formidable foe,
8. You didn't want to have revealed, so publicly your own formidable skill; lest you might be cast in the same mold as those you so pity for their own lack of depth
9. Gelly was a formidable character, but he was no fool
10. Harry was elated on account of those two particular locales they had essayed during their journey merely for their very formidable access and the determination which one must conjure to tour them
11. Definitely the same Venna he had spent all those weeks with on the Brother’s Formidable
12. The Brown & Backhouse's Lead Representative, Miss Rebecca Backhouse, a daughter to the firm's namesake, evinced a formidable persona with years of construction experience admirably and conscientiously executed already behind her
13. The unlikely pair had become a rather formidable one-two punch
14. And their teeth are formidable
15. What she could see of the avatar was formidable but not insurmountable
16. blessed his luck in joining with such a formidable
17. Ostedes had always appeared formidable, but now he was terrifying to behold
18. It is a formidable oasis of tranquility this park, in
19. With a formidable nerve
20. formidable opponent, surely his herd would be easier to slay than wary ibex
21. Their Breton mother, true to form in all of her formidable petiteness and feistiness, swore to protect her tall and broad-shouldered Redguard husband from any and all menaces with everything in her – promising to rip them apart with her bare hands, even
22. It was during the unprosperous reigns of the princes of the house of Suabia, that the greater part of the free towns of Germany received the first grants of their privileges, and that the famous Hanseatic league first became formidable
23. This monopoly has so much increased the number of some particular tribes of them, that, like an overgrown standing army, they have become formidable to the government, and, upon many occasions, intimidate the legislature
24. Being nighbours, they are necessarily enemies, and the wealth and power of each becomes, upon that account, more formidable to the other; and what would increase the advantage of national friendship, serves only to inflame the violence of national animosity
25. It is as though the poverty-stricken coagulation which is the language of mortal man were broken into fragments under the formidable pressure of the Heavenly Word, or as if God, in order to express a thousand truths, had but a dozen words at his command and so was compelled to make use of allusions heavy with meaning, of ellipses, abridgements and symbolical syntheses
26. From shopkeepers, trades men, and attorneys, they are become statesmen and legislators, and are employed in contriving a new form of government for an extensive empire, which, they flatter themselves, will become, and which, indeed, seems very likely to become, one of the greatest and most formidable that ever was in the world
27. wits with such formidable obstacles as the
28. The man was formidable as he stood looking at Martin
29. A nation of hunters can never be formidable to the civilized nations in their neighbourhood; a nation of shepherds may
30. The Scythian or Tartar militia, which Mithridates drew from the countries north of the Euxine and Caspian seas, were the most formidable enemies whom the Romans had to encounter after the second Carthaginian war
31. In order to render them less formidable, according to some authors, Dioclesian, according to others, Constantine, first withdrew them from the frontier, where they had always before been encamped in great bodies, generally of two or three legions each, and dispersed them in small bodies through the different provincial towns, from whence they were scarce ever removed, but when it became necessary to repel an invasion
32. Both significantly smaller than the Vanguard, but still formidable gun platforms
33. Those arms were the most formidable that can well be imagined
34. Though the tenants and retainers of the clergy, therefore, had both together been less numerous than those of the great lay-lords, and their tenants were probably much less numerous, yet their union would have rendered them more formidable
35. In the state in which things were, through the greater part of Europe, during the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, and for some time both before and after that period, the constitution of the church of Rome may be considered as the most formidable combination that ever was formed against the authority and security of civil government, as well as against the liberty, reason, and happiness of mankind, which can flourish only where civil government is able to protect them
36. She held her breath, almost afraid to breath in the formidable silence
37. wrote that it is better to leave a prize so disabled and injured as to be formidable enough to endanger the navigation of the ocean
38. Mother was a formidable opponent
39. And as a formidable nuclear power they have much to gain from a pact with Russia
40. It made her formidable
41. I think we’re all agreed that would be a formidable task
42. He looks formidable, but is really a gentle,
43. wringer, and realizing why Jhordel was such a formidable opponent
44. The technology bestowed upon the human race showed how these once helpless people were able to fight on the terms of their formidable invaders
45. Maybe her associates knew more than her just how formidable any Darangi associate could be
46. He was sure Larkey was formidable in combat or battling the high seas
47. As she felt the world fading – and the resolve of her colleagues – there was time for reflection on just how formidable, and how adaptable, the Darangi could be
48. (Indeed, there were few things more terrifying in Thimble Down than the sight of the Sheriff flippin’ his lid and employing that formidable voice of his
49. That made them formidable interrogators for they could follow the movements of the owner of a specific AK47 and thereby convince the detainee they had all the evidence needed to hang him
50. We rode along the outer edge of the city, where the streets were barricaded like Paris in Commune, the walls loop-holed, trenches cut across the highways, and so formidable a line of defence formed that an assault on the city would have proved costly