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The strangeness and tremendousness of what was happening came over me very strongly whilst, in a large chamber with barred loopholes, I was throwing off the rags in which I had entered this house.

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

The tremendousness of his realization that he was in love with her frightened him, and yet he was gloriously happy.

From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by Richardson, James H.

Again, the tremendousness of this high isolation swept over her.

From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

She doubted if she could have felt this tremendousness of love in England.

From There was a King in Egypt by Lorimer, Norma

Suppose then that one day I should surprise him in some act, stupid and meaningless to myself, but as fraught with tremendousness for him as was that first command, "Let there be Light!"

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]