pachydermatous

How To Use pachydermatous In A Sentence

• Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour. The Complete Father Brown
• The wonder is that the country ever got governed at all, but it seems that all public men who had any fixed and sensible ideas and wished to see them carried out, had to make themselves callous, pachydermatous, hardened against this offensive mud-slinging. The Dominion in 1983
• 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
• I have, for instance, not even mentioned the sea, which swept smoother and smoother in toward the feet of those precipices and grew more and more trans-lucently purple and yellow and green, while half a score of cascades shot straight down their fronts in shafts of snowy foam, and over their pachydermatous shoulders streamed and hung long reaches of gray vines or mosses. Roman Holidays, and Others
• Those having the fewest dermal plates were most agile, while their more pachydermatous mates toiled in ponderous slow motion. Perseus Spur
• The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
• The resemblance, in the shape of the body and in the fin-like anterior limbs, between the dugong, which is a pachydermatous animal, and the whale, and between both these mammals and fishes, is analogical. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
• She had piqued his curiosity, aroused his interest and disturbed by just a pin-prick his pachydermatous equanimity; she would not raise again before the draw. The Fifth Ace
• Farther on, the pachydermatous lophiodon (crested toothed), a gigantic tapir, hides behind the rocks to dispute its prey with the anoplotherium Journey to the Interior of the Earth
• But even a Flamburian may at last be pierced; and then (as with other pachydermatous animals) the hole, once made, is almost certain to grow larger. Mary Anerley