elephantine

How To Use elephantine In A Sentence

• But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
• 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
• Soon enough, the cream will rise to the top and our elephantine popularity contest will have proven itself once again as both as defining and as completely irrelevant as freshman yearbook pictures.
• According to Von Meyer no mandibular tusks were present and most probably the jaw possessed a short elephantine symphysis.
• Right or wrong, Rumour was very busy; and Lord Decimus, while he was, or was supposed to be, in stately excogitation of the difficulty, lent her some countenance by taking, on several public occasions, one of those elephantine trots of his through a jungle of overgrown sentences, waving Little Dorrit
• Their predominant expression was good nature, a kind of elephantine docility, which neutralized the awe inspired by his immense size. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
• After an elephantine period of gestation the scheme in its present form was implemented as and when each public entertainment licence came up for renewal after March 1998.
• The intrinsic value of the materials employed predominates in the earlier model: the value of plate at an Athenian symposium, or the value of gold and ivory in the chryselephantine statues by Phidias.
• At first glance it looks as though the structure might belong to the Social Security Administration or some other elephantine bureaucracy.
• 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