It was powered by a monstrous 16-liter four-cylinder engine, about eight times the displacement of today's small sedans.

This large hull was intended to accommodate monstrous engines and armament and sufficient fuel to give a prodigious range.

Pulsing lights from the monstrous engine five hundred meters "below" them colored her face blue, red, then yellow; but it remained shadowed in mystery.

And the Invincible charged on in their wake, her monstrous engines flailing at the structure of space.

He started the monstrous diesel-turbine engine, drove over to the elevator doors, and slammed a switch that opened the back of the truck.

From within came the sound of monstrous engines at work, a clattering and a banging as if giants struck furiously at enormous anvils.

His car was nothing more than a monstrous engine bolted to a wooden chassis.

They came like platforms of death, monstrous engines of war rolling ,in the sea like whales impervious to the small fish surround- ing them.

Mick tows her past the monstrous engine mounts and swims toward the bow of the geologically camouflaged vessel.