How To Use Elephantine In A Sentence
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But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
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The sandy beach at Chintheche is one of the best on the entire lakeshore, hemmed in by smooth, elephantine rocks.
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Here are the clues we have to work with: Over the Veteran's Day weekend, GOP negotiators from the House and Senate hunkered down to finalize the details of the elephantine security bill.
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What boots it to tell that the arms and vesture of this "chryselephantine" statue are of pure gold; that the flesh portions are of gleaming ivory; that Phidias has wrought the whole so nobly together that this material, too sumptuous for common artists, becomes under his assembling the perfect substance for the manifestation of deity?
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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chryselephantine;" that is, composed of ivory and gold; the parts representing flesh being of ivory laid on a core of wood or stone, while the drapery and other ornaments were of gold.
The Age of Fable
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It's not easy, because it is a bureaucracy that really for 50 years kind of went to waste and grew in elephantine proportions and they were trying to get it to do gymnastics, so it really did need to reform.
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Grandma's elephantine ankles, mother's hypochondria, Grandpa's grubbiness, are all experienced as her own.
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Harsh actinic lights illuminated both the elephantine generators and horizontal warp core, and three twitching bodies on the floor.
Star Trek The Next Generation®
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Now that might not seem like that much money to a state facing an elephantine $38 billion budget deficit, but it means very specific cuts to very specific programs that affect hundreds of thousands of people.
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Thank you all very much," she said -- and was gone, with a kind of elephantine swiftness.
Captain Jim
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Our earliest glimpse of Euclidean material will be the most remarkable for a thousand years, six fragmentary ostraca containing text and a figure… found on Elephantine Island in 1906/07 and 1907 / 08…
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I think, deep down - well, not that deep, actually - I was so irked by the elephantine pause before our orders were taken I half-wanted it to be a disaster.
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The fruits are misshapen and unnatural looking, a kind of elephantine mutation of, say, cherries.
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`They saw Major Karnes return to the back room, followed by the elephantine Hubert in his grey uniform.
THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
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I mean the kind of colossal gold and ivory “chryselephantine” in academic jargon creations that once dominated the inside of the Parthenon or the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
A glimpse of Greece in Bologna
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He had become suave and unctuous, a kind of elephantine irony pervading his laborious attempts at conciliation.
I Will Repay
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The water gurgles between golden sand banks and rugged grey granite boulders that have given one island its name, Elephantine.
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As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, 40 feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.
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In keeping with recent elephantine overruns that render the Space Station Alpha a useless floating boondoggle in the sky, each NASA shuttle launch costs over $400 million.
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He was deified in the Middle Kingdom and a shrine for his cult was build on Elephantine Island.
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In the estimation of niggers your garments are hideous; your legs they think elephantine, your red beard frightful, and your blue eyes savage -- _savage_! think of that.
Black Ivory
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He begins by reading AVREA for the AENEA of most manuscripts, taking _uel eburna uel aurea custos_ to refer to the chryselephantine statue in the Parthenon, 'sed altius consideranti locum apparet de duplici statua Mineruae agi, altera eburnea, altera aenea'.
The Last Poems of Ovid
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This idyll is short-lived as the elephantine squall of S.O.S. rears its panicky, hard-riffing head.
The Line Of Best Fit
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We went out to take some photographs in a marble courtyard replete with shrubbery and elephantine urns where uninterested figures dined al fresco.
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The central part of the temple, called the cella, sheltered the famous chryselephantine cult statue of Athena, made by Pheidias.
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In fact, he used his supposed elephantine hide to conceal a gentleness and a forbearance that allowed corrigible error and a toughness that demanded quality at all times from the scientists he corrected.
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He picked up and in an explosion of bursting muscles, face brimming with pain and desire, he lifted the entire world above his head, flung down the weight and performed an elephantine jig of celebration.
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Thereon James rose to reply in terms of elephantine eloquence, and would have gone through the whole case again had not Lady Holmhurst in despair pulled him by the sleeve and told him that he must propose her health, which he did with sincerity, lightly alluding to the fact that she was a widow by describing her as being in a "discovert condition, with all the rights and responsibilities of a 'femme sole.'
Mr. Meeson's Will
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His examples are ‘the geometry of a young Japanese woman walking down a Parisian street or a Dutchman made to feel clumsy, elephantine, in a traditional Japanese house or inn.’
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She's so tiny she makes me feel elephantine.
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Aurochs were immortalised in prehistoric cave paintings and admired for their brute strength and "elephantine" size by Julius Caesar.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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The Hera is described by Pausanias, but no secure copies of her survive, presumably because antiquity rated her inferior to the great chryselephantine statues of Phidias.
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Is it really in London's interest to have the already-elephantine Tate swell yet further?
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Almost elephantine with its twin probosci and large, intelligent eyes, it alternated between curling the forward lobes into tight horn-like protuberances or dropping them down to shovel plankton into its cavernous maw.
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Every pedestal that held a golden vase of peacock feathers or a priceless work of art was chryselephantine—delicately carved ivory inlaid with gold.
Antony and Cleopatra
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He hasn't changed that recommendation, even though it's still unclear if the oilfields of Lake Albert really are of elephantine proportions.
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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
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There was also a Jewish temple in Elephantine in the post-exilic period.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews
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Burdened by an elephantine rucksack, his pink skin charred to a luscious red by the sun, and trying to communicate with a guide whose accent is, well, undecipherable; his hopelessness and frustration is palpable.
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A domed elephantine building loomed pale against the sooty night.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The members and trustees wish to create a new Guinness record with the themes, ‘Forging ahead with elephantine strength’ and ‘Lighting lonely lives.’
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No, he felt obliged to compose works that couldn't possibly sustain their elephantine size, mega extended canvases that often occupied two or three entire CDs.
The Jazz Scene: Whirling Through a Wynton Wonderland
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Its wide tyres look elephantine compared with some of the snazzier models as we pull up at traffic lights.
Times, Sunday Times
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Black Matt and Tom Morrisey merely held on to each other and lifted their clumsy-booted feet in what seemed a grotesque, elephantine dance.
Chapter 4
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The endearing bathos and crassness of Laurel found an admirable foil in the elephantine smugness of his rotund partner.
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He was coming along the landing; she heard his elephantine tread.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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At first glance it looks as though the structure might belong to the Social Security Administration or some other elephantine bureaucracy.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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According to Von Meyer no mandibular tusks were present and most probably the jaw possessed a short elephantine symphysis.
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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.
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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
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Though the size of the new card remains the same as the previous ones, the 32 Kilobytes Subscriber Identity Module card is said to have an elephantine memory in addition to its several genie-like features.
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It was a young woman in silvery satins of a Renascence design; she had golden hair in two long shining ropes, and a face so startingly pale between them that she might have been chryselephantine — made, that is, like some old Greek statues, out of ivory and gold.
The Complete Father Brown
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Its moisture helped preserve the ivory of the chryselephantine colossus, though temple priests also burnished it with more oil daily.
See Delphi and Die
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A chryselephantine figure of Zeus sat on a jewel-encrusted throne carrying a small figure of Nike in his left hand, a scepter in his right.
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Perhaps I ought to louver that elephantine window.
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The gigantic, bipedal, elephantine creatures weighed several tons at the largest and had no problem knocking the eighty-foot trees aside as they ran.
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I agree about that first picture- never have I seen a clearer example of the adjective 'elephantine'.
A Long, Weaving Road
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And although I've always loved caladiums for their cool elephantine leaves, I resent their invasion in my view.
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In ancient Greek sculpture gold leaf might have been included in chryselephantine sculpture, as well as applied over an entire figure.
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We went out to take some photographs in a marble courtyard replete with shrubbery and elephantine urns where uninterested figures dined al fresco.
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She was a silly girl, and far too easily impressed by Grunte's elephantine attentions.
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I think the charges are relevant and deserve scrutiny, but as I said, I leave that to others; I'm more interested in how the story does or does not bloom and blossom in the elephantine media.
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Nothing else can explain the wealthy male's love of the ridiculous, elephantine Humvee 4WD military truck, now the preferred vehicle not only of Hollywood stars, but of Premiership footballers.
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But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life.
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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.
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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.
Chapter 24
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In the further wall was an alcove whose curtains, bestrung with pearls, were let down and I saw a light issuing therefrom; so I drew near and perceived that the light came from a precious stone as big as an ostrich egg, set at the upper end of the alcove upon a little chryselephantine couch of ivory and gold; and this jewel, blazing like the sun, cast its rays wide and side.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night