So far good; but the implication that the streets of New York swarm, like a scene in a harlequinade, with similarly Brobdingnagian signs is quite unfounded.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
Both ladies were dressed in the very height of the fashion, with enormous wide-spreading open bonnets, heavy with ostrich plumes, tightly-fitting dresses, with broad waistbands well up under the arms, loose scarves, long gloves and reticules ornamented with huge bows of the stiffest silk, like Brobdingnagian butterflies.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
A Brobdingnagian goes down as easily as a Liliputian.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage