It was considerably larger than a knife hilt.
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I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being.
MAGNITUDE, n. Size [that is] purely relative. If everything in the universe were increased 1,000 diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been.
As big as an elephant is, a whale is still larger. Everything's relative. Even gods have their spot on the food chain.
I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.
Pluto is as far across as Manhattan to Miami, but its atmosphere is bigger than the Earth's.
Somebody accumulates a lot of muscle and think himself to be a big man. But this big man is only big when all around him are smaller.