The large bear of a man smiled when he saw her.

Not 200 feet away was one of the largest bears I had ever seen on these trips.

This suggests a body size similar to the largest modern bears.

Soon after her son came in, bringing with him a large bear, which he had killed for supper.

It was, in fact, the largest bear I had ever seen.

Once upon a time, a woman meets a large bear in a forest.

I killed a very large bear with that gun some years ago.

What was it out there that hunted large black bears?

But then, history is usually a large bear to wrestle with when you're 6 years old.

By the time they are two years old, the cubs have grown into large bears.