| 单词 | elephantine |
| 例句 | He danced an elephantine jig, stomping snow on the carpet, flung a long woolen scarf from his neck, and yelled, "Otis Amber is here, the roads are clear!" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Don Guillermo looked like an oafish policeman, right down to his elephantine ears and the brass buttons on his cuffs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mulch was not one bit surprised that his recyclings had managed to hurl the elephantine Mud Man several yards through the air. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Ignatius picked up one of his elephantine desert boots and flung it at the pirouetting figure. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the red thing was past and the elephantine progress diminished toward the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Shifting from one hip to the other in his lumbering, elephantine fashion, Ignatius sent waves of flesh rippling beneath the tweed and flannel, waves that broke upon buttons and seams. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The elephantine flying horses that had pulled the carriage were now grazing in a makeshift paddock alongside it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Presented in an elegantly spare installation, the four works range from a two-ton elephantine conch shell, about 8 by 8 by 8 feet, to a knee-high 300-pound periwinkle. Art in Review: Marc Quinn: ‘All the Time in the World’ 2013-05-23T19:12:12Z At some point they actually encounter an ant and it appears elephantine. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z And in an interview with the Guardian, he called Piers Morgan “slobby and elephantine.” T Magazine: Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star 2013-05-10T13:00:54Z Certainly onstage, it’s a dauntingly elephantine enterprise requiring a huge cast and the kind of lavish production elements that seem beyond the compass of a typical regional theater. A masterly 'Les Miserables' at La Mirada Theatre 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z They're always far, far too long, hamstrung by idiotically convoluted plots, defeated by wooden acting and elephantine dialogue, suffused by nauseating levels of sexism, and never as pummellingly exhilarating as they persuade themselves they are. My favourite Bond film: The Spy Who Loved Me 2012-09-28T10:21:34Z The utopian task Moss said she alone could do would be to galvanize an elephantine organization into employing its massive resources toward the rejuvenation of the very art of performance. Lincoln Center artistic director Jane Moss conducts surprising successes 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z It is also to Ms. Close’s advantage that she is no longer required to compete with an elephantine, star-eating set. Review: That ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Close-Up, Finely Focused 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Indeed, the tension between its elephantine mass and some nimble architectural moments — particularly in Gehry's innovative initial design for the arena — made it difficult for me to easily pigeonhole. No shortage of architectural head-scratchers 2010-12-20T17:57:04Z The elephantine grand piano can easily bully its smaller partners or timidly overcompensate. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Yet their gestures are so distinctively and beautifully elephantine that it’s impossible not to develop affection for them as creatures unto themselves. With the Ringling era ending, two acrobatic shows fly high with modern takes on the circus 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z “Pachyderm Shout” opened in a lumbering rut, with bowed bass and bass clarinet, before the action shifted to the trombones, in a testifying chorus of elephantine harrumphs. Review: Wynton Marsalis’s ‘Spaces,’ a Kinetic Series of Zoological Portraits 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Also in the “Art and the Divine” gallery, an eighth-century Indian sandstone sculpture of a dancing Ganesha is accompanied by a video showing a contemporary dancer evoking the elephantine god’s movements. Reimagining the Divine Art of Asia at the Philadelphia Museum of Art 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Watching it after its elephantine doppelganger is akin to sipping a glass of ice cold water after a bracing draught from those La Brea tar pits. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z Virginia Woolf described his masterpiece, “Hydriotaphia,” a survey of funerary customs, as “a cathedral where the organ goes plunging and soaring and indulging in vast and elephantine gambols of awful yet grotesque sublimity.” I Can’t Afford These First Editions, but I Buy Them Anyway 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Imagine the epic irony if President Trump paves the way for a Democratic president who then becomes a 21st-century version of Franklin Roosevelt cleaning up after Herbert Hoover’s elephantine mess. Three Authors Consider Contemporary Politics, Anxiously 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z In the early stages of that show's elephantine birth agonies, director Julie Taymor was trying to duplicate the surreal grandeur and technical legerdemain of a Cirque Vegas event. Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: The Summer's Great Stage Show 2011-07-03T05:50:00Z Indeed, the jet’s elephantine proportions were both a gift and a challenge to the travel industry. As the 747 Begins Its Final Approach, a Pilot Takes a Flight Down Memory Lane 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z He could play Oscar Wilde if you put him in a long wig – he's so kind of slobby and elephantine. Rupert Everett: the queen of mean 2012-09-28T22:01:28Z But she has an elephantine memory for such things and truly doesn't recall it. Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z By my due date, I was elephantine, seventy pounds overweight, unable to move well. “I should have had the drugs”: The pregnancy that made me fear cars, carrots, forest fires and David Bowie 2014-04-15T22:59:00Z Political implications aside, the track embraces an elephantine polyphony, with a heaving swing tempo that briefly ruptures into chaos. The Playlist: AlunaGeorge Says No and Radiohead Says Goodnight 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z By the 1960s, Mr. Lorayne was best known for holding audiences rapt with feats of memory that bordered on the elephantine. Harry Lorayne, Dazzling Master of Total Recall, Is Dead at 96 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, “the jet’s elephantine proportions were both a gift and a challenge to the travel industry,” Mr. Vanhoenacker writes. Early Days on the 747: Power, Style and Size 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z In these moments, and when they play the new song Miracle – a concoction that manages to be both elephantine and stupidly catchy – it's not such a stretch to imagine them scoring Muse-sized success. Hurts – review 2013-02-10T18:30:18Z An elephantine sculpture in front of the Seagram Building on Park Avenue at 53rd Street has much going for it: impressive scale, contrast with the normal environment and popularly appealing imagery. Critic?s Notebook: Sculptural Surprises Grace the Streets 2011-08-18T22:26:28Z Johns’s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters — obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: A seminal artist’s career is celebrated and illuminated in two cities 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z The musical’s opera-house setting allowed Lloyd Webber to keep a foot in high culture as the fictional opera company struggles to put on its elephantine productions. Not your granny’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at the Kennedy Center 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z “He is mostly evasive. His pauses are elephantine. Broadway musicals could be mounted during his pauses.” Bill Zehme, who elevated celebrity profiles to an art form, dies at 64 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z It feels less oppressive, less elephantine, lighter and more graceful on its feet. A critic takes a second look at Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo’ — and is thankful he did 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Its existence suggests that other elephantine asteroids, veiled by the sun’s glare, remain disconcertingly undiscovered. ‘Planet Killer’ Asteroid Spotted That Poses Distant Risk to Earth 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Despite Casey’s protestations, the dog somehow ends up in her backpack, and when Clifford blows up to elephantine proportions, it sets off a series of wild adventures through the city. ‘Clifford the Big Red Dog’ review: Remember this good boy? Beloved pooch gallops onto screens 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z And in “the ultimate expression of sheer, elephantine joy,” the animals then let loose with bladder and bowels. Review | In the animal kingdom, rituals that connect, renew and heal 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Spreading their skis wide to disperse their weight on ice that bowed beneath them, they moved as quickly as their elephantine sleds allowed. The untold story of the boldest polar expedition of modern times 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z How do you include everyone—not just the elephantine U.S.-China-Russia triad but all 10 or so countries that can reach space? How Do We Prevent War in Space? 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Trump’s memory is elephantine, especially for those who cross him. GOPers on Capitol Hill aren't wavering in support of Trump despite criticism 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z Campbell never uses the word “racism”, but it is an elephantine presence in the room. Naomi Campbell: ‘I will not be held hostage to my past’ 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z It’s the puzzle as pastiche, at once an absurdist riff and an endearing, elephantine folly. Review: Andrew Garfield gets lost in the L.A. noir puzzles of 'Under the Silver Lake' 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z And because fish lack limbs or an elephantine trunk, it would be hard to interpret potential mark-removal behaviors anyway—suggesting the test itself might be biased toward animals that more closely resemble humans. A Tiny Reef Fish Can Recognize Itself in a Mirror 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The model’s light, lithe elegance effortlessly orchestrates heavy, elephantine bulk. Review: 'Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography' at the Getty Museum reveals the limits of the art form 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Put another way, how to engage in a covert propaganda campaign aimed at Trump, without upsetting his elephantine ego? First Canada Tried to Charm Trump. Now It’s Fighting Back. 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z And then there was the elephantine object in the room. 'Das Paradies': A giant globular tear as ticket to heaven 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Cute as she was with her beady eyes, beaked mouth, spikey hind quarters and scaly, elephantine legs, Pearl was a commitment with a capital C. A rescued tortoise helps her learn to enjoy life in the slow lane 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z The Stegomastodon was an elephantine creature — not a mastodon, but similar in appearance — whose existence was relatively recent. A 9-Year-Old Tripped, Fell and Discovered a Million-Year-Old Fossil 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z TEN days after he became America’s 45th president in January, Donald Trump vowed to “do a big number on Dodd-Frank”, the elephantine law that recast financial regulation after the crisis of 2007-08. The Treasury publishes proposals to cut red tape 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z At 13th and New York NW, a trio of elephantine, Day-Glo rams stand atop one another. Perspective | A herd of colorful animals has migrated to Washington 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z She can also vouch for his “emotional intelligence,” “capacious mind,” “elephantine memory,” “preternatural aesthetic sense,” “talent as a consummate diplomat,” and “independent spirit.” Where Prince Charles Went Wrong 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Suddenly, the Four Guardsmen came into view: a tight quartet of elephantine sequoia trunks through which the road passes. In the Land of Giants 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Who could have guessed that a single City Council race would turn into an elephantine criminal inquiry that dragged on for years, at enormous cost, to absolutely no point whatsoever?” The Daily 202: Trump team taking more and more credit for Obama successes 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z After this elephantine gestation period, with the UK as a leading advocate of the idea, a deal is now imminent. UK government presses on with EU patent scheme despite Brexit - BBC News 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Donald Trump will join his cronies on the elephantine path trampled by the GOP for years. How to Help Working People 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z In its shape, the chart looks recognisably elephantine. Shooting an elephant 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z They floated in the Dead Sea together, among the ancient, elephantine Jews reading half-submerged newspapers bleeding Cyrillic. “Maybe It Was the Distance” 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z It depicts a massively proportioned woman in a bathing suit: Her legs are spread wide in a half crouch, her hands are braced on elephantine thighs, and her wide, appealing face radiates delight. The Woman Who Influenced Diane Arbus’s Eye 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Their hard shells allow the tortoises to crawl deep into thorny thickets, and they navigate loose lava rocks with their elephantine feet. Can Extinct Giant Tortoises Be Brought Back to Life? 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z It is an elephantine affront to the grace, agility and precision of the game. End the Home Run Derby 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z It is informed by an elephantine cultural memory, haunted by past mine owners, always referred to as “Mr” someone, even if hated, and in which Nottinghamshire miners are all scabs. The end of industry 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The UN consumer-side embargo against Iraq was relatively successful, but required an elephantine effort to accomplish. Desperate Venezuela 3: Will China Learn The Value Of Friendship? 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Included is the elephantine equipment making up the fuselage assembly line, which built the planes at a clip of up to 16 a year, according to the auction catalog. Boeing auctioning equipment as it closes C-17 plant in Long Beach 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z She described a customer who bought “a bristling, elephantine, gargantuan warlord gun.” Good business and strong words on guns and women 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Rumours of this elephantine feast - at a time of renewed economic crisis in Zimbabwe - drew a storm of criticism from Mr Mugabe's critics, inside and outside the country. Robert Mugabe and the Crocodile - BBC News 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z The Kaypro II weighed in at a mere 26 pounds, which is elephantine by today’s standards but was a technological breakthrough at the time. Andrew Kay, inventor who developed the Kaypro II compact computer, dies at 95 The Note 4 is key to a recovery by Samsung Electronics, which faced initial derision at the idea of callers holding elephantine screens up to their ears. Samsung unveils Galaxy Note 4 with extras but no breakaway features 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z Now, a new initiative from a group of major medical organization will seek to provide the tools to better see a full picture of the elephantine problem of diabetes. Major Medical Organizations Establish Ambitious Diabetes Registry 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The only spectators liable to be offended are those allergic to elephantine kitsch. Katy Perry review – Stern Katy and Sensitive Katy fit her like a lead boot 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z The true cancer at the heart of this matter is the elephantine size of the News Corp media empire. Leveson's best cure is to limit media empires – and so their power 2012-12-12T13:12:37Z Watch the Glazers trouser half the money from the IPO that was supposed to ease the club's elephantine debt. The Fiver 2012-07-31T16:02:20Z An elephantine man, with florid face and scraggly beard, wakened me roughly. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z The dance becomes a rush, an elephantine prancing on the dry lawn under the mulberry trees. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z He picked her up in his arms and made for their boat at an elephantine trot, the stranger struggling along after him through the sand. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z His whole development is elephantine, and his look grim and ferocious. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z Enwrapt in a veil of reserve he studiously avoided a t�te-�-t�te with her whom he had honoured with elephantine love-making. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z And he laid an elephantine and not over-clean hand on Vaughan's knee. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z The coat was too long in the sleeves and the tail; the trousers bagged in elephantine creases about his ankles. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Instead of this she stabbed him, rather too hard for playfulness, with her scissors, and skipped away laughing with elephantine grace. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z These and other views, did she propound to Pharamond, marching up and down the room as her wont was, when much in earnest, with elephantine tread, while the chevalier blinked at her in fear. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Herringbone tweeds kept company with chevron stripes; bird’s-eye weaves with elephantine plaids; pompoms with flannels and nomadic motifs. | Trendspotting: Mash-Ups on the Fall 2012 Runways 2012-02-13T19:37:18Z Have I not, to mention a few instances, taken Rome by storm; and done battle with the Pope, and the whole elephantine body of the Cardinal College, at one and the same time? Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z The fact probably was that his friend’s intelligence really was quicker than the elephantine but irresistible movements of Fiske’s great mind. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z These two inland navigators undertook therefore the contract of piloting the vessel—which had now become elephantine in proportions—through the uncertain channel of the Sangamon to the Illinois river. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z Scarcely had Martinez withdrawn, when one of the Captains, the one with the elephantine foot in a felt shoe, confessed his lack of competence in such matters. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z He groaned and puffed as if the task of carrying his elephantine body through life was not a light burden. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z Two or three times a week he jogs along the Rhone past the farm buildings that remained standing on the property when their elephantine neighbor went up. Vernier Journal: Geneva-Area Housing Shortage Renews Debate on Le Lignon Complex 2011-09-30T00:17:44Z He had to plod to his conclusions in his irresistible elephantine way. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Sir Joseph had lowered his elephantine form into a chair beside the tea-table, where he sat, with his great cane between his enormous legs, munching cake like a school-boy and winking at his friends. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Yet this elephantine novelette has a host of excellent and eloquent moral reflections in it, shouldering and elbowing themselves out from its flimsy dress of fiction. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z He agreed with her in this, but, by and by, she found his shoulders heaving with his usual elephantine mirth. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z The toucan, just spoken of, is most remarkable for its beauty and variety of colors, as well as for the very peculiar form and size of its elephantine bill, which makes it look singularly ill-balanced. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Slower than they, now he was chugging up to where they had stopped, an elephantine amble. Progress Report 2011-07-29T02:00:31.957Z The White House posted the following infographic on its website today explaining how America accumulated its national debt over the past decade, shifting fiscal forecasts from projected surpluses to elephantine deficits. Infographic: Where America Spent All of Its Money 2011-07-26T23:46:46Z Just then the local constable, who on an eventful occasion had also stuck fast in the hedge, came tramping through the stubble with elephantine gait. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z At night Ogden made an immense speech at me, in which that luminous functionary inserted several elephantine hints, to the effect that he knew the source whence the aforesaid tobacco came. The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy 2011-07-22T02:00:15.747Z “Are you all here?” she cried, giving a funny little elephantine run down the piazza, as they came up the steps. The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine 2011-06-05T02:00:14.760Z True, he has not quite the bulk he had before; but it is a captious critic, I should say, who would not consider him sufficiently elephantine for all ordinary purposes. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z Have I not, to mention a few instances, taken Rome by storm; and done battle with the Pope and the whole elephantine body of the Cardinal College, at one and the same time? The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z Miss Hemphill and her young man, a clerk in the Deep Harbor Smelting Company, teased us, until we reached the club, with well meant but rather elephantine wit. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z On the contrary the elephantine steeds jog stolidly on, quite unmoved by the constant din; the students continue to wear their adventurous, peril-seeking air, and the undaunted man behind valiantly cracks his whip. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z Sad is leprosy in all its forms, but most so when elephantine.” The Bible in Spain Vol. 1 [of 2] 2011-03-23T02:00:19.910Z Altogether, his satisfaction was so profound that at times he was positively kittenish, and teased the young lovers with elephantine playfulness. Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z Up one of these stairways Mr. Price climbed with heavy, elephantine movements: Anna prudently waited till he had reached the top before beginning to ascend. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z What is now Germany was largely forest lands; the forests extended far into Russia and made a home for the gigantic aurochs, a bull of almost elephantine size. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z Anyhow, they came up in their elephantine way, getting the most out of their engines and most skilfully guided by their young officers and crews, who were out on a great and perilous adventure. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z And yet," with an elephantine attempt at playfulness, "I certainly did think last night some quarrel had arisen between you. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z As they rolled along the red road through the cantonments they overtook Baboo Mohun Dass plugging along in an elephantine strut beneath a gaudy green umbrella. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z And indeed the superintendent had put on quite a merry appearance—flushed, excited, and jocular in his elephantine way—it seemed as if he had not a care in the world. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Likewise, with demand for scarce resources soaring, the miners and other commodity-based firms that have grown huge during the past few years—including several from Russia—may soon be positively elephantine. Schumpeter: Nipping at their heels 2011-01-20T10:43:36Z And the one of the soul is elephantinely sluggish, and will not budge at a breath. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Alone was he, which proclaimed him an outcast from elephantine society—an Ishmaelite in his own land. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z Presently there was little light except that that streamed from the doorway behind me, yellowing the artificial hedge and showing the elephantine feet opposite—still where they were. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z That cynical process has misserved a beloved writer and her elephantine fan base. Review of Sara Gruen's 'Ape House' 2010-09-08T04:00:00Z That is, in effect, what plans to do at Expo 2010 Shanghai, an elephantine world's fair that opens Friday evening on the banks of the Huangpu River. At Expo 2010 Shanghai, China thinks big 2010-04-30T04:00:00Z What Carlyle says of the Parliamentary general, Lord Essex, might be said of Amherst—he was a 'somewhat elephantine' man. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical "Oh, isn't it piggy and nasty!" exclaimed Annie, stretching out her arms in the agony of an elephantine yawn. The School by the Sea We all paused expectantly as Billings rolled down the stairs in his usual jolly, elephantine way. The Haunted Pajamas One of the most important of such works is the sumptuously illustrated, elephantine folio, issued in Vienna in 1892 by the Imperial and Royal Austrian and Commercial Museum. The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. The average amateur woodsman seems to think a pair of elephantine brogans is the proper thing—a sort of badge of identification in the craft. Camp and Trail You will make such a nice, cheerful, good-tempered wife!” cried Hope bravely; whereat Miss Minnie indulged in an elephantine byplay of bashfulness, and ran rustling down the staircase. The Daughters of a Genius Kangaroos of eight or nine feet in stature leaped over the primeval bush, and wombats and dasyures of elephantine bulk burrowed in the hill sides, and great lion-like beasts prowled about the plains. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series Wilks, the weakest point in the opposing line, caught unexpectedly by the elephantine rush, went down, and Tompkins brought the man with the ball to earth by a nice tackle. Under Boy Scout Colors There was no joking here, nor that elephantine persiflage which marks rough men when they forgather in the wilderness. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure "You see, in your doubt of him, you are not a solitary exception," says Julia, with elephantine playfulness. Portia or By Passions Rocked His corpulence is now portable; you would call him lusty rather than fat; but his gait is still dull, stumbling, and elephantine. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) I brushed past her, rudely, I fear, and she caught hold of the cape of my mackintosh with elephantine playfulness. Threads of Grey and Gold Quiet reigned in the tents of the elephantine woman and the calf with six legs. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Every year I have cost you an enormous—nay, elephantine—sum of money for drugs and physician’s fees, and the most expensive time of the twelve months was March. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) He walked down the store with elephantine tread, as he laughed, and then the door opened and Dr. Nesbit came in. In the Heart of a Fool They rumbled and roared their slow, elephantine way down the highway and, after what seemed about three days, disappeared from sight. Occasion for Disaster With a resounding plunge the elephantine quarry struck the water and was gone. The Pathless Trail At the same time the figure fell over into the road and its enveloping rags slipped off, disclosing in the bright moonlight a loathsome, distorted face and elephantine limbs, covered with festering sores. Carmen Ariza He hasn't much of a trunk left, but he often finds himself in seas of a coldness enough to nip off any ordinary trunk; but his legs and feet are not elephantine. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Her own feet, in their sturdy black, square-toed shoes, commenced to assume such elephantine proportions that, when the signal came for the debaters to go forward, she could scarcely drag them along! Highacres The big girl stood up in elephantine eagerness, and a jaunty, handsome young man, with a shaven face and an important chin, slowly made his way through the press of people to the Fridolin table. Melomaniacs Thou shalt know her by th’ aroma of her bosom, which is musk, And her ivories that glisten like an elephantine tusk. The Battle of the Bays It was not only the outer man of Reisen, but the heart as well, that was elephantine. Dr. Sevier But foolish bees, Who will contend for points like these, Should not suppose good taste in roses Depends on elephantine noses. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales She pushed her suitor off with an elephantine shove and gestured to Chris. Mr. Wicker's Window It is the largest of all coffee beans, and makes an elephantine roast, free from quakers, but woody and generally disagreeable in the cup. All About Coffee Any argument, however, founded on the mere numbers of these elephantine tusks and grinders, and which evaded the important question of species, might be eluded, however unfairly, by the assertors of a universal deluge. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Emitting a sharp squeal, she gave an elephantine leap to the shelter of Anderson's arms, almost bowling him over. Anderson Crow, Detective For some we've read, the month's Six Selling Best The Bookman scored with elephantine Jest, Have sold a half a Million in a Year, Yet no one ever heard of them, out West! The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne Rube gazed at the twinkling eyes raised to his; he gave a chuckling grunt, and his words came with elephantine meaning. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies Liberian coffee, grown on the west coast, used to be mixed with Bourbon Santos to some extent; but it is generally considered low grade, although it makes a handsome, elephantine roast. All About Coffee They would probably argue from the elephantine imagery of the London street that such and such a percentage of the householders were megalomaniacs and required medical care and police coercion. What I Saw in America "Thank you all very much," she said—and was gone, with a kind of elephantine swiftness. Captain Jim He was a huge, elephantine animal of some sixteen stone, with bushy eyebrows and a bald pate, which he ever and anon affectionately caressed with a red and yellow bandana. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 The figure, if used by Curran, has about it the character of an elephantine bull. Notes and Queries, Number 207, October 15, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. That she was also of an emotional nature was shown by the tears that rolled in little well-defined channels down her cheeks as she made an elephantine courtesy before her guest. The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines It would suggest houses built by mammoths out of mountains; the cities reared by elephants in their own elephantine school of architecture. What I Saw in America She did not wait for their greetings, but vanished with the elephantine swiftness peculiar to her; returning in a few moments with a second tray. Captain Jim I knew you would, but it's a treat to see your elephantine struggles. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley In this library were deposited the elephantine books, written upon tablets of ivory, wherein were recorded the transactions of the emperors, the proceedings of the senate and Roman magistrates, and the affairs of the provinces. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 The first man who saw him, opened upon him the usual course of elephantine witticisms. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim First came Gazan; his hat was tilted awry by the bumps of his skull, and the vegetable green of the coat threw into relief the earthy colour and scaly texture of his elephantine visage. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 He is apparently unconscious of discomfort when crushed up or partially sat upon by his elephantine colleague, which is a fortunate circumstance. Faces and Places The Shetland pony is so small, that many specimens are no larger than a Newfoundland dog; on the other hand, Clydesdale horses sometimes attain to almost elephantine proportions. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock “Don’t run away from me, you naughty, unfeeling man,” she began, with an elephantine attempt at archness. The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly And the girl held out her skirts with each hand, and executed an elephantine gambol, shaking the casket she still held in her hand. Jack 1877 "I won't see those elephantine bipeds come any nearer to me!" Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Now dig we in this grove a pit His elephantine bulk to fit. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse "Every one can," replied McPherson with elephantine lightness. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play With trump elephantine and slow, Tread on through word-swamps, dank and darkling; But no, most decidedly no, You must not be sparkling! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 15, 1893 He loved to go through them, slowly considering each in his elephantine way. Adventures in Many Lands This grand, slow-moving, sedate hero of a hundred fights, was a sort of elephantine bull-dog; a concentrated earthquake; an animal thunder-bolt; a suppressed volcano. The Eagle Cliff With this elephantine compliment the Senator nodded in a patronising way and took himself off, while Stradella bowed politely at his departing back. Stradella But one piece of furniture retained its attitude, and that was the elephantine bedstead, which nothing short of an earthquake could move. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Browne alone maintained his dignity, and came on at his usual elephantine pace, probably suspecting that the pretended discovery was a hoax. The Island Home She was certainly massive, but probably fell short a hundred and fifty pounds of these elephantine proportions. The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus One could not imagine a process more open to the elephantine logic of the Bible-smasher than this: that the sun should be created after the sunlight. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens In the back of his brain the city tumbled—an elephantine grimace, a wilderness of angles, a swarm of gestures that beat at his thought. Erik Dorn Larry O’Neil gave a chuckle, slapped his pockets, and cut an elephantine caper, as he turned from contemplating the retreating figure of his shipmate’s employer, and advanced towards the end of the quay. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West Crusoe testified his delight in various elephantine gambols round the persons of his old friends, who were not slow to acknowledge his services. The Dog Crusoe and his Master After waiting some time a walrus thrust its ungainly head up through the young ice that covered the hole, and began to disport itself in elephantine, or rather walrusian, gambols. The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice Here the wizard not only accompanied the chorus with the drum, but with a species of dance, which, being a clumsy man, he performed in an extremely elephantine manner. Red Rooney The Last of the Crew But its elephantine woodwork repelled her, for she had grown up amid the rococo exuberances of Paris apartments. On the Stairs So that Mrs O’Flinn did me a good turn at last, as I should have neglected my promise, if she had not made her appearance, sailing along like an elephantine Cleopatra. Percival Keene He went over the ground with huge elephantine bounds, runs, and jumps. The Dog Crusoe and his Master His gestures and his language were emphatic, and the planks trembled with his elephantine walk. Jacob Faithful “Not at home,” said the major, as they all stood breathlessly waiting for the outburst of the furious monster, which Mark painted mentally as something between a lion and a bear, but elephantine in size. Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle At the unwonted sight, the fustian-clad let go, and blue petticoat tumbled over backwards, kicking up a great pair of red legs, grey socks, and imperfect but elephantine boots, and howling at the same time. The Carbonels Hannah struck a dramatic gesture, danced a few fancy steps in an elephantine manner, and stumped towards, the door. A College Girl This harpoon Karl now brought forth, approaching the seal with the obvious intention of despatching it summarily; when another evidence of its elephantine character was displayed, well justifying its title. The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land There, even, was the elephantine Jeffreys, snorting and pounding in the thick of the fray, feeling his feet under him, and doing his clumsy best to fight the battle of his side. A Dog with a Bad Name In his own elephantine way he loved them, when few of them could figure it out. The Masques of Ottawa Olmsted, an unprejudiced observer, describes him as on the average a very poor and a very bad creature, "clumsy, awkward, gross and elephantine in movement ... sly, sensual and shameless in expression and demeanor." The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Gone is my youthful glee and grace, I have an elephantine face; My cheeks are gross, which were so thin; I have a loathsome pendant chin. A College Girl Mr. Shodd, having a point to gain, went about it with elephantine grace and dexterity. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Paws of elephantine thickness Dragged its body from the bay, And it glared at Cullen Bryant In a most unpleasant way. The Bon Gaultier Ballads There is the large percentage that God in his goodness does not see fit to restore that will form an elephantine problem. A Journey Through France in War Time General Botha was big, large and great in body and brain—elephantine! An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 Editor of the Continental: Among the lesser joys of maternity, that of having your children interested in a vivarium is one of the least—in fact, it is an elephantine sorrow. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy But in that case I am all the more mystified by the incredibly weak fight which he makes in the play in answer to the elephantine sophistries of Undershaft. George Bernard Shaw Podgers led me directly upstairs to the clerk's room on the third floor, walking on tiptoe, with an elephantine air of silence and secrecy combined, which struck me as unnecessary. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont It is flaccid, elephantine, doltish, coarse, dismal, flatulent, sophomoric, ignorant, unconvincing, wearisome. A Book of Prefaces Quadrupedal dinosaurs with elephantine feet, short neck, small head, body and tail armored with massive bony plates and often with large bony spines. Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections The Germanic style, the elephantine humor, the strange conceits and the sledge-hammer blows at all which the smug English public regarded with reverence—all these features aroused irritation. Modern English Books of Power Monsters of the deep were side by side with the mighty elephantine shepherd. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Steenie, inflamed with sudden wrath, forsook the cow, and made an elephantine rush at the offender, who vanished in the crowd, and thus betrayed the constable to another shout of laughter. Alec Forbes of Howglen Now for elephantine dimensions and leviathan bills of fare. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 436 Volume 17, New Series, May 8, 1852 Quadrupedal with elephantine feet, short neck, very large head enlarged by an enormous bony frill covering the neck, with a pair of horns over the eyes and a single horn in front. Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections As superior as he knew himself to be to that little Cobbens, or to the bland and elephantine husband of Mrs. Parr. The Mayor of Warwick "If I might be permitted access to the drawers of my own desk," he added with elephantine sarcasm, "I could show you the editorial in question." The Edge of the Knife Individuals were always laughing over incidents; but here hundreds of thousands of men were to see a new style of animal perform elephantine tricks. My Second Year of the War In his dull way it is probable that he was fascinated by the agile intelligence of Mr. Gibney, the vitriolic tongue of Captain Scraggs, and the elephantine wit and grizzly bear courage of Mr. McGuffey. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Really, it was going to be very awkward if he, in his elephantine way, had conceived an infatuation for me. Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel When he had lighted it, he captured her wrist with elephantine playfulness. Enter Bridget As he concluded he gave Shafto a nod and a curious look and then, with a sort of elephantine waddle, lounged away. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma To be sure, they will not scan according to the elephantine grace of the pedant's iambics; but then, neither will the Indian songs scan, though I know of nothing more subtly rhythmical. Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark And even his own letters to his daughter-in-law, which Mr. Lockhart seems to regard as models of tender playfulness and pleasantry, seem to me decidedly elephantine. Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) The heavy horse-chaff with which the average Englishman of the Duke's type, in his elephantine efforts at gallantry, thinks it necessary to adorn his conversation, were not for him. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs He is of the elephantine rather than the tiger species, a very mild young savage. Letters from Egypt She stood rigid until "Jimmy" got out of his seat with elephantine deliberation, and shuffled to the edge of the platform, where he stood, grinning defiantly. The Trail Horde And the face of the compass, in its round copper case, notwithstanding the vessel's elephantine leaps and bounds, never deviated from the horizontal. Atlantis He then walked up to the village, changed his clothes, behaved with elephantine tenderness to his mother, and walked out in the darkness to see his friend, the gardener. The Romance of the Coast People hurried along the streets, hansoms jingled and passed by, buses and vans blocked the view and then, with elephantine deliberateness, ambled on. The Halo Even the elephantine Johnson, congenitally incapable of airy nothings and prone always to "make little fishes talk like whales," disported ponderously in the 'Idler' and the 'Rambler.' Inquiries and Opinions She did not understand English, but she shook her fist in Mr. Merrick's face and danced around in an elephantine fashion and jabbered a stream of French. Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross Into Nan's mind flashed the recollection of a supple, expressive, un-English bow, and of a deftness of phrase compared with which Trenby's laboured compliment savoured of the elephantine. The Moon out of Reach Herbert strenuously denied that any such phenomenon had taken place, and when James appealed to its author he was met with such an outburst of elephantine sarcasm that he refrained from further contesting the point. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 It would be trodden under foot by the log-roller's elephantine jocosity. Prince Fortunatus But with the clumsy swiftness of the elephantine, the man had run after her and opened the cottage gate just as Susan Hetth opened the cottage door with the welcoming announcement that tea was ready. Leonie of the Jungle I could never have been so elephantinely idiotic! The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin With weakened strength and slow motion, that king of great intelligence walked with difficulty, like the leader, worn out with age, of an elephantine herd. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Possessed of youth, of a dark complexion, with red eyes, he looked like the leader of an elephantine herd. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 The boy sprang on to the dock wall, and created much merriment with his elephantine caresses. Looking Seaward Again He dragged his elephantine form to the wicket, and, looking round with his genial smile, prepared to enjoy the Masters' bowling. Tell England A Study in a Generation A strange elephantine eccentricity is their utmost claim to comic character. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series These are those two well-developed and round arms of mine, resembling a pair of elephantine trunks. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Karna agitated that hostile force with showers of weapons like the leader of an elephantine herd plunging into a lake adorned with lotuses and covered with swans. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 He praised her cooking, and teased her with elephantine playfulness, and told her that she looked like a chicken in that hat. Half Portions Upon the whole, therefore, we may regard the elephantine Sivatherium as being most nearly allied to the Prongbuck of Western America, and thus as belonging to the family of the Antelopes. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science Again shall I see the old Mayor who rules the whole town walking down the street with elephantine tread. Invisible Links He asked himself whether he believed seriously these preposterous things, or whether he was amusing himself in an elephantine way at their expense. The Magician "But wait awhile!" thought the Big Doctor, who, among his other elephantine qualities, possessed that of patience. Mount Music And then, with further elephantine airyness: "I say, jest excuse me—reckon I'm in the way." In Old Kentucky She loosed Bran, and the dog, when he had finished his elephantine 301gambades, followed her close at heel, with all stateliness, to the wide marsh on the brow of the hill. Leonora As we enter among them the great elephant makes us a bow in the best style of elephantine courtesy, bending lowly down his mountain bulk, with trunk abased and leg thrust out behind. Twice Told Tales Now, without any doubt, an elephant could dance after an elephantine fashion; but surely you would never catch him going through the movements of a jig or a Virginia "breakdown." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 A Norman capital can be heavy because the Norman column is thick, and the whole thing expresses an elephantine massiveness and repose. The New Jerusalem In many of the comic scenes of Shakespeare we have precisely this elephantine ingenuity, this hunting of a pun to death through three pages. Robert Browning Let us not be misled by the worship of the elephantine. Promenades of an Impressionist Against the sky, now, the place of the elephantine black horse and the little tram cars and the man was taken by the masts of ships lying beyond. The Rules of the Game Viewed as a circus, the acting is elephantine in its grandeur. The Art of the Moving Picture She has revolutionized it a second time by planting towers of iron on the elephantine backs of the waves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Her facetiousness is elephantine, but the relief of conversation is such that you laugh loudly at her witticisms and simper knowingly at her platitudes—both of which have now been current for several months. The "Goldfish" Dull, elephantine, pompous, slow, Choked with absurdly useful knowledge. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 3, 1891 Bob, peering forth into the young daylight, caught the silhouette of the elephantine tram horse, high in the air, bending his great shoulders to the starting of his little train of cars. The Rules of the Game A picture that is all action is a plague, one that is all elephantine and pachydermatous pageant is a bore, and, most emphatically, a film that is all mechanical legerdemain is a nuisance. The Art of the Moving Picture His form had neither the slenderness of his youth nor the elephantine magnitude of his later years; it was fully, but finely, developed, imposing and stately, yet not wanting in alertness and grace. Famous Americans of Recent Times The conductor and the driver admit the absolute dominion of the elephantine policemen; they admit that before the simple will of the policemen inconvenience, lost minutes, shortened leisure, docked wages, count as less than naught. The Author's Craft They, like the press as a whole, were obviously waiting to see which way the great elephantine public would jump. The Regent But, sweetheart," her Captain Geoffrey would say, suddenly ashamed of his elephantine humour, "there's nothing to cry about. Kimono She moved with elephantine clumsiness, but her desire to please was so evident that Sylvia could not regard her as wholly without charm. The Top of the World Megatherium, an extinct genus of mammalia allied to the sloth, some 18 or 20 ft. in length and 8 ft. in height, with an elephantine skeleton. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge He moved in the cotillon or waltz with a certain elephantine ponderousness and sagacity. Round the Block Whereat the old cow tossed her head and tail in the air, and tore off at an elephantine gallop, with a bawl that sounded to Red mightily like derision. Red Saunders His Adventures West & East The Bourbonian features, the lofty white wig, the elephantine form, the rustling taffeta, and the ebony stick with its ivory handle, leads one's thoughts backwards to the days of Richardson and Sterne. Kimono On a certain morning near the close of our sojourn in Basel, Max, after many elephantine manoeuvres, obtained Yolanda's promise to walk out with him to a near-by hill in the afternoon. Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy Indeed, he even went so far as to pay her an elephantine compliment; but as it was three sentences long, and divided into points, it shall not be repeated here. Mr. Meeson's Will Also Mr. Dearman was singularly elephantine in the blundering crushing directness of his methods, and his idea of enough might well seem more than a feast to some. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Some day, perhaps, these elephantine old romances may come into fashion again, and we may obtain a precise list of them. Gossip in a Library After a while the bells all rang, and the boat, in the awkward elephantine fashion of boats, got into midstream. Balcony Stories It seemed to me as I listened that the contest of Singanee with the more than elephantine destroyer of Perdóndaris had already been set to music. Tales of Three Hemispheres The wound-spots long ago have left his shaggy coat, but the earmarks still are there, the ponderous strength, the elephantine dignity. Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac He tried to employ an elephantine bantering tone. Within the Law Jimmy began to caper about with elephantine tread. Baby Mine We sat on in silence for about half an hour, the dog keeping a reproachful eye upon us from the nearest chair, and displaying elephantine delight whenever we made any movement suggestive of climbing down. Evergreens Higher he came and nearer, nearer, slowly yet hurriedly, now stopping to cough and gasp, now taking a few steps by elephantine assault. Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman Every year I have cost you an enormous - nay, elephantine - sum of money for drugs and physician's fees, and the most expensive time of the twelve months was March. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 He took a rapid turn about the room and then as Thea remained standing, he rolled one of the elephantine chairs up to the hearth for her. The Song of the Lark The boy was at once swaddled and lost within their blue gulfs and vast saggings; and the left leg, too hastily rolled up, had descended with a distinctively elephantine effect, as Margaret had observed. Penrod I wrote, I wrote everything—ponderous essays, scientific and sociological short stories, humorous verse, verse of all sorts from triolets and sonnets to blank verse tragedy and elephantine epics in Spenserian stanzas. John Barleycorn Selden's calmness seemed rather to harden into resistance, and Miss Bart's into a surface of glittering irony, as they faced each other from the opposite corners of one of Mrs. Hatch's elephantine sofas. House of Mirth Huge elephantine forms, the mastodon, the hippopotamus, the tapir, antelopes of monstrous size, the megatherium, and the myledon—all, for the moment, in juxtaposition. A Pair of Blue Eyes Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine sapphire. The Innocence of Father Brown She started the pen in an elephantine march across the sheet. The Mayor of Casterbridge Black Matt and Tom Morrisey merely held on to each other and lifted their clumsy-booted feet in what seemed a grotesque, elephantine dance. John Barleycorn He bowed and shrugged and spread open his hands as he spoke with his elaborate and elephantine sarcasm. The Poison Belt Presently the trees blotted out the red-and-white turban; the noise of the babu's elephantine retreat diminished; and Amber was left to knit his brows over the object which had been forced upon him so unexpectedly. The Bronze Bell Prolific of smiles and somewhat elephantine graces, the lady's darkened eyes met Wrayson's boldly, and finding there some encouragement, she even favoured him with a backward glance. The Avenger His good humour was of the elephantine order, and belied the drawn anxiety of his eyes. The Crimson Blind These "elephantine books" were rendered possible because it was the fashion for each succeeding historian to compile the results of his predecessor's labors, and adopt it as part of his own monumental work. Josephus This is the true analysis, I think of that chill of tedium that strikes to the soul of any intelligent man when he hears of such elephantine pranks. Alarms and Discursions Altogether he was an unwholesome, disagreeable-looking brute, who munched his grass morosely and had no elephantine geniality. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Before George had mastered the folding of the elephantine sheet, Philip had seen and taken note of two words. Birds of Prey Go and finish your honeymoon," said the lawyer, digging his client in the ribs with elephantine playfulness; "the moon must be in her first quarter, I should think. Charlotte's Inheritance As we enter among them, the great elephant makes us a bow, in the best style of elephantine courtesy, bending lowly down his mountain bulk, with trunk abased, and leg thrust out behind. Little Annie's Ramble (From "Twice Told Tales") You are more vulgar and blundering than the most elephantine music-hall artiste. Alarms and Discursions "Came to bask in the light of your smiles, my dear," he replied with elephantine irony. The Gray Dawn And it was not without a sense of shock, as of rough descent to common things, of pity and of regret, that he recognised good George Lovegrove cruising thus, elephantine, among the roystering babes. The Far Horizon Perhaps the pachydermic Beef's grim attitude unnerved the wonderful Bob Forsythe, for he passed that elephantine youth. T. Haviland Hicks Senior Sometimes the whim takes them to draw up the dust into their trunks, and then with a snort they squirt it all over their bodies; this is their elephantine toilet. Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore The shore was deserted save for myself and a portly dogana-official who was playing with his little son—trying to amuse him by elephantine gambols on the sand, regardless of his uniform and manly dignity. Old Calabria At one end of the Terrace rose a prodigious headland, whose slope was scaled over with broken slate, like some mammoth heaving from the deep and showing an elephantine hide of bluish gray. Seven English Cities The procession bears onward whole populations lifted high in the air, and swaying and lurching with the elephantine gait of things which can no more capsize than they can keep an even pace. London Films The creature was only a few inches high, and it must have been through some mist of dreams yet hanging about me that he impressed me as having something elephantine in his manner. Venetian Life Then, with a deafening continuous clatter of loose glass-panes and throbbing of its filthy floor, the vehicle started again, elephantine. Hilda Lessways For Egypt did not Napoleon provide the most elephantine books of monuments and records that printing-presses have yet issued? Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents Chloe added her quota of socks, often elephantine in shape, and sometimes oddly decorated with red tops and toes; but with a blessing for "the boys in blue" running through all the threads. A Romance of the Republic Mr. Deacon, as one would expect, laughed loudly, took the situation in his elephantine grasp and pawed at it. Miss Lulu Bett They had a clumsy, elephantine character of mind, these Egyptians. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Here, with a somewhat elephantine jump, he alighted beside her and threw himself on the warm sand with a deep sigh of mingled exhaustion and relief. Temporal Power Yet Sergius went his way unobservant of the remarks drawn by the elephantine ears of his outlandish hood, his tall form, and impeded step. The Prince of India — Volume 02 The men had done well, however, and were stiffening nicely into field soldiers, while my Teutonic second in command had sufficiently recovered from his wounds to sit his saddle with some elephantine grace. My Lady of the North Then he toppled his supports over on the floor, and laughed until the pain in his elephantine foot bent him double. Colonel Carter of Cartersville In place of his former somewhat elephantine method of progression he adopted a species of shuffle which had excellent results, for it enabled him to brush twigs away instead of stepping flatfootedly on them. Uneasy Money "Well, I suppose I must help you," said Miss Eudora with elephantine sprightliness. Little Citizens The ponderous philosopher did not disdain, occasionally, to give play to his elephantine wit. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe I confess to a feeling of sadness in parting with the place, after all, elephantine though it was in every sense of the word. A Fool and His Money Ancient and modern tongues tell the same tale—from Hebrew to street-Arabic, from Greek to the elephantine language that was "made in Germany." Without Prejudice Have I any right to be a party to fettering poor airy fairy little Miss Butterfly, with a heavy iron chain for life and always, to this great lumbering elephantine moral Ernest? Philistia And the great Q.C. put his foot down on the path with an elephantine solidity that made the prospect of bullying him seem tolerably unlikely. What's Bred in the Bone In the same moment I heard that elephantine tread again. Sketches New and Old, Part 5. My stature seemed to increase from an even six feet to something like twelve, and my bulk became elephantine. A Fool and His Money He had not seen them; but when the gun fell silent he heard whining sounds in the air, as if from a litter of elephantine puppies. Jimmie Higgins His arms and legs were nearly as thick as the waist of a man of medium size, and his feet were elephantine, covered by fat pendant from his legs. The Physiology of Taste I do not want to stop now," said the other, in his elephantine simplicity, "but we must stop for a moment, because it is a sign—perhaps it is a miracle. The Ball and the Cross They said nothing—did not smile—but strode straight forward, three abreast, swinging their kibokos with a sort of elephantine sporty air. The Ivory Trail The petty orthodoxy can by no means keep pace with the elephantine stride of Zen. The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan His legs were ponderous, elephantine, since his leg-illness was of elephantiasis, or dropsy. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley "With his vast bulk, his bovine face, his elephantine movements, he boasted a delightful rascality; he sold himself majestically, and committed the greatest infamies in the name of duty and conscience." A Zola Dictionary; the Characters of the Rougon-Macquart Novels of Emile Zola; He had become suave and unctuous, a kind of elephantine irony pervading his laborious attempts at conciliation. I Will Repay It was almost laughable to see them, with such heavy packs on their backs, attempting such elephantine gambols; so I kept them going, to steady them a bit. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, A slap, a wail, then Mrs. Zapp's elephantine slowness on the stairs from the basement. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man There was at times something elephantinely elfish in M. Hanaud's demeanour, which left Mr. Ricardo at a loss. At the Villa Rose What could be more crammed with quality than an enormous old pig, with its bristles, its elephantine ears, its furtive little eyes, its twitching snout? Escape, and Other Essays Among them were a number of genera of clumsy, ponderous brutes, some almost elephantine in their bulk. The Elements of Geology She was a lady of elephantine proportions, in her sixtieth year, and wore a white camellia stuck in her rosewood-colored hair. A Romance of Youth — Complete She was a lady of elephantine proportions, in her sixtieth year, and wore a white camellia stuck in her rosewood- colored hair. A Romance of Youth — Volume 3 He came stepping gaily into the room, more elephantinely elfish than ever. At the Villa Rose There was nothing corresponding to the gaiete francaise about them, though at times a ponderous playfulness marked their lighter moments, and flashes of elephantine jocularity enlivened the proceedings of the Club. The Days Before Yesterday It is,—it is, most unfortunately!" returned the minister, shaking his bullet-like head a great many times; then, with a sort of elephantine cheerfulness, he added, "but what matter? Thelma Then with a smothered exclamation he stamped out of the room, kicking Isobel's little terrier out of the path with his elephantine foot. Love Eternal The Indian native princes do not admire the African elephant, as it combines many points which are objectionable to their peculiar ideas of elephantine proportions. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 Not that we would set down the art of the variety theatre as something to be condescended to, or our own art as elephantine. Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress The horse, huge, elephantine, her head down, nose close to her chest, intelligently spying her steps, moved. The Blazed Trail Not so, animal," he mimicked me with elephantine grace, "you are for Cesena, and you had best go with a good will. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro In the meanwhile those limbs of his which had ever been vigorous beyond the common wont had acquired an elephantine strength. The Sea-Hawk And off she set at a rapid pace, keeping abreast of her companion and making gay but elephantine attempts at sprightly conversation. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Thank you; I'm not used to such delicate elephantine compliments. Their Pilgrimage A ridiculously elephantine program or system, esp. one that is buggy or only marginally functional. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 Anon an elephantine trumpeting of laughter seemed to set the air a-quivering. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro They are elephantine in their gait for, in addition to everything else, they have wrapped their feet, outside their sea-boots, with gunny sacking. The Mutiny of the Elsinore But Lad brought to it an elephantine patience and an uncannily wise brain. Further Adventures of Lad "Hurry up!" shrieked the stout woman, dancing an elephantine fandango in front of the bungalow. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Abbrev. for `Presentation Manager', an elephantine OS/2 graphical user interface. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 Once, while riding in a cab during the Dog Show, Snap caught sight of an elephantine St. Bernard taking an airing. Animal Heroes I stood looking at the Coronation Procession—I mean the one in Beaconsfield; not the rather elephantine imitation of it which, I believe, had some success in London—and I was seriously impressed. A Miscellany of Men I will confess that our methods were, perhaps, elephantine, that we may have grown a trifle noisy as the evening wore on. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow The final members of the series comprise only large, almost elephantine animals, with immensely developed and very various nasal horns, huge and massive heads, and altogether a grotesque appearance. Darwin and Modern Science Node:elevator controller, Next:elite, Previous:elephantine, Up:= E = elevator controller n. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 Mr. Smith got down from his perch with an air of absent-mindedness, and coming back into the garden stood in the same elephantine attitude as before. Manalive There is nothing but plodding, elaborate, elephantine imitation. What's Wrong with the World She kept Crossjay beside her till she dismounted, and the colonel was left to the procession of elephantine ideas in his head, whose ponderousness he took for natural weight. The Egoist Yes," I echoed, meekly, "I wonder how Frieda will like my elephantine efforts at assisting with the housework. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed This term isn't pejorative, but one hacker's heavyweight is another's elephantine and a third's monstrosity. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 Then Bastin retired to straighten his tie, and grabbing his coat from Bickley, who handed it to him with a malicious smile, forced his perspiring arms into it in a peculiarly awkward and elephantine fashion. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot I have just been telling you what I think, in order to explain why the elephantine gambols of Madame Tetralani spoil the orchestra for me. Martin Eden The Selenites made way for our elephantine heavings, and seemed to twitter more volubly. The First Men in the Moon At that the elephantine Flossie wagged a playful finger at me. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed |
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