The giant came up with a roar and swung hard, but Elbryan had already dropped off the back of the limb, and that sturdy branch stopped the club far short of the mark.

As he watched, a sun-bronzed giant of a South African clad only in short khaki pants swung the bat and clearly he heard the crack as it struck the ball.

The giant, though, swung its arms wildly for a moment, trying to hold its precarious balance, then toppled in with a splash.

His whole being jarred as if some giant had taken a club and swung it straight up at his feet.

There was a bellow like an enormous bull's, and I looked up, aghast* A giant of a man, seven feet tall, as broad as an ox, thick-necked and powerful in proportion, swung a vast claymore two-handed at a shrinking clump of Monarchists.

As if a giant were swinging a sledgehammer, and that hammer were armed with five steel spikes... Iron clanged on iron, teeth crashed on teeth, breath roared harshly, feet thundered on the hard-packed ground.

From another top bunk, across the room, a hairy giant, Dvoyetyosov, swung his big clumsy legs over the side and said in a deep bass: 'Don't you want to dominate the world, Zemelya?

The blond giant swung round in annoyance; he wore a leather patch over his right eye.