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The whole question of the Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the colossal schemes of Baron Maupertuis are too recent in the minds of the public, and are too intimately concerned with politics and finance to be fitting subjects for this series of sketches.

Franz had so managed his route, that during the ride to the Colosseum they passed not a single ancient ruin, so that no preliminary impression interfered to mitigate the colossal proportions of the gigantic building they came to admire.

Exactly sixty years ago, I stood on the deck of a colossal ocean liner, watching the gray docks of Southampton recede into an impenetrable fog.

Furthermore, this colossal engineering endeavor fundamentally reshaped the physical landscape of London through the creation of the structurally magnificent Thames embankments.