| 单词 | pachydermatous |
| 例句 | In some shows, he impaled a watermelon rind — he dubbed it the “thick pachydermatous outer melon layer” — with a card thrown at speeds approaching 90 miles per hour. Ricky Jay, magician whose sleight of hand defied logic or physics, dies at 72 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z This practice, which he shares in common with all the pachydermatous animals, is undoubtedly the teaching of instinct, and for the purpose of cooling himself and keeping off flies. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z It were easier to change the burglar of the slums, the brigand of the hills, than to change this self-complacent and pachydermatous householder who represents nine-tenths of the ruling classes. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z However, Nomfunda was an expert and daring honey-hunter, and was extremely pachydermatous; he hardly ever came to this spot without plundering a nest and feeding on honey to repletion. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z It includes all the true ruminants, with the coney, the hare, and the hog, animals of the rodent and pachydermatous orders. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science But a glance would suffice to show that he now sitting there is not a member of that dogged and pachydermatous race. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt The plains of Siberia, stretching away towards the Arctic Ocean, sheltered countless hosts of huge pachydermatous quadrupeds. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series Glared angrily upon the pachydermatous Tanner, and having thus played into his hands, loftily declared, "I do not propose to take any notice of the insult." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 17, 1890. But how is such doctrine to be uttered by lips which are, at the same time, pouring out the shrewdest of sarcasms against politicians who, if more pachydermatous, were at least more manly? Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) A pachydermatous Don Juan, on the contrary, may abandon himself to the wildest sexual excess without being infected, if he is prudent and has good luck. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study But we are puzzled by the presence outside the pale of some who cannot rightly be called “pachydermatous.” Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war The Eocene ages were peculiarly the ages of the Palæotheres,—strange animals of that pachydermatous or thick-skinned order to which the elephants, the tapirs, the hogs, and the horses belong. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Mrs. Chapman was a stout, dewlapped old lady, with dull eyes and pachydermatous folds in her face. The Talking Horse And Other Tales In advance of the troops came the armoured train, a pachydermatous monster which moved cumbrously in front of the column, and was saluted by the smoking wrath of big guns as soon as it appeared. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Indifferent in perfunctory movements, taking money and threading her flowers, the saleswoman was as pachydermatous and robotic as the old woman and everyone else was. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais In the Playground of Europe, Leslie Stephen told us that a man who preserves a stolid indifference in face of mountain beauty must be of the “essentially pachydermatous order.” Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war The only other pachydermatous animal besides the tapir indigenous to South America is the little truculent peccary—a herd of which creatures is more feared by the natives than the jaguar, boa, or anaconda. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America If society is to go on, either we must all be so pachydermatous as to be able to disregard draughts, or we must feel them and act accordingly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 By and by he will take the hint, if not wholly pachydermatous, and go away of his own accord. A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries He is always right, always faultless in matter and style, when he is showing that 'the impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.' Figures of Several Centuries Generally nocturnal in their habits, the huge pachydermatous creatures that had made them were, during daylight, probably lying asleep in their lairs, amid the thick underwood of the adjacent jungles. The Castaways There were heat and dust and discomfort, and weary, wretched animals looking out of cages at other weary, tortured animals, that were sometimes scarcely less pachydermatous than themselves. The Master-Knot of Human Fate His words cut through the somewhat pachydermatous sensibilities of Sim Gage, who frowned a trifle as, after a due pause, he crawled out and sat down and reached for his broken boots. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West All noble and sweet beliefs grow with the growing nobleness and tenderness of characters sensitive to those fine revealings which pachydermatous souls can never know. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life No proboscis can pierce that pachydermatous hide of his. Post-Prandial Philosophy Snaggs, however, will be fashioned of more pachydermatous material and will daily make himself such a nuisance that they'll give him an order, and possibly a long contract, to get rid of him. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, September 22, 1920 The former penetrated the affections of his countrymen with ease: the latter followed more difficultly through the outer tissues of a people notoriously pachydermatous to abstract speech. Adventures in Criticism Nature, it would seem, has fashioned him neither pachydermatous nor pugilistic. The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Moreover, the pews are so pachydermatous, so rhinoceros-skinned, that nothing but an incessant pelting upon the same spot makes an impression. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 He recognizes the pachydermatous skin of the beggar boys in the dark and wrinkled envelope of the old oaks. Là-bas The Elephant.—The elephant and the wild boar, the Singhalese "waloora," are the only representatives of the pachydermatous order. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 But as all thoroughbred animals are thin-skinned, so are all the short-bred pachydermatous, whereby they endure and mayhap arrive at the manger well as the next. The Covered Wagon 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 For how impress a creature at once so light and so pachydermatous? Deadham Hard She was not an inviting auditor for those somewhat pachydermatous philanthropists who dwell complacently upon 'cases' and statistics which represent appalling depths of individual suffering. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy Pray, my good Sir, does a man go to see the elephant only to call him a pachydermatous quadruped? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 A pachydermatous old lady would insist upon an open window. Tracks of a Rolling Stone Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour. The Wisdom of Father Brown The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Do you think they were pachydermatous coleoptera of the dor tribe, who had just fallen from red-oak trees, and did not know that they were trampled upon? How to Do It A man cannot have a sensuous nature and be pachydermatous at the same time, and if he be imaginative as well as sensuous, he suffers just in proportion to the amount of his imagination. Among My Books Second Series The predominating forms are still pachydermatous, and the tapir type continues to be conspicuous. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Adj. insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient†, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Strange how all German curses come home to roost, and move us to the ridicule that hurts the Hun so much and so surely penetrates his pachydermatous hide. Sketches of the East Africa Campaign When perfectly ripened, these spears are exceeding formidable, their points being sharp enough to pierce the skin of any but a pachydermatous animal. Across the Zodiac Why not add to the first class the pachydermatous indifference to rebuffs which is of such service to the social climber, and, to the second, taste in dress and the habit of not repeating stories? A Handbook of Ethical Theory Surely, a menace to Granville Kelmscott's prospects could never have moved that heavy, phlegmatic, pachydermatous man to such an outburst of anger and suppressed fear. What's Bred in the Bone Picture, if you can, a nature with a soul completely beautiful and selfless, and a nervous surface quite as pachydermatous and indiscriminating as that of an ox. The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors But no amount of travel, no association with his betters, could pierce his stolid pachydermatous obliquity. South Wind These were, however, but feeble means with which to contend with formidable feline and pachydermatous enemies. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples Then the pachydermatous one enters into the other's heaven, probably with the resolution already formed of ousting that unhappy angel. The Prime Minister A dozen of red partridges and rays were speedily brought down, and Glenarvan also managed very cleverly to kill a TAY-TETRE, or peccary, a pachydermatous animal, the flesh of which is excellent eating. In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant He shrinks from appearing less pachydermatous than the rest. The Soul of the Far East |
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