Adjective : elephantine movements; elephantine humor. From Dictionary.com.
I agree about that first picture- never have I seen a clearer example of the adjective 'elephantine'. From Wordnik.com. [A Long, Weaving Road] Reference
"Thank you all very much," she said -- and was gone, with a kind of elephantine swiftness. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Jim] Reference
Trenby's laboured compliment savoured of the elephantine. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
"I won't see those elephantine bipeds come any nearer to me!". From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
There's a shot of Boba Fett's elephantine spaceship, the Slave-1. From Wordnik.com. [The Phantom Media Blitz] Reference
He broke into an elephantine trot, whirling the great mallet over his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
He loved to go through them, slowly considering each in his elephantine way. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Angela's delicate limbs and hands made his, by contrast, appear elephantine. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
And you can actually see almost the elephantine like toes with this creature. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005] Reference
In his own elephantine way he loved them, when few of them could figure it out. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Monsieur Victorien Dupont presented a pleasing picture of elephantine geniality. From Wordnik.com. [The Crooked House] Reference
Peter's elephantine tread was so great that it had almost overstepped its victim. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
A huge, elephantine creature rumbled along, seemingly lost and out of its element. From Wordnik.com. [Chainer's Torment]
Then the red thing was past and the elephantine progress diminished toward the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Flies]
They threw open borders, courted capitalists and shrank the elephantine bureaucracies. From Wordnik.com. [Dollars And Discontent] Reference
Mr. Shodd, having a point to gain, went about it with elephantine grace and dexterity. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
His good humour was of the elephantine order, and belied the drawn anxiety of his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
Among the latest elephantine tales which we have encountered is the following, from our. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"Boiler-plate" was finishing some elephantine pleasantry to Natica, when he saw what I saw. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
And she tiptoed with elephantine delicacy to the door, a finger raised and an ear to the panels. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the angel of the lord]
She grew more certain with every passing minute that when it did, it was going to be elephantine. From Wordnik.com. [Memory of Fire]
These are those two well-developed and round arms of mine, resembling a pair of elephantine trunks. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
She has revolutionized it a second time by planting towers of iron on the elephantine backs of the waves. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
The foul elephantine leprosy, alleviated for an hour, re-appears in new force and desperateness next hour. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
Possessed of youth, of a dark complexion, with red eyes, he looked like the leader of an elephantine herd. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Really, it was going to be very awkward if he, in his elephantine way, had conceived an infatuation for me. From Wordnik.com. [Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel] Reference
"And they are most elegant," an elephantine creature remarked, leaning over the boat to stare at her blouse. From Wordnik.com. [Xone of Contention]
The elephantine car hums to life, coughs loose its emergency brake, and backs hesitantly out of the driveway. From Wordnik.com. [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference
The various facts and figures he was able to pluck from his fingertips paid tribute to an elephantine memory. From Wordnik.com. [Frost at Christmas]
But its elephantine woodwork repelled her, for she had grown up amid the rococo exuberances of Paris apartments. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
After a while the bells all rang, and the boat, in the awkward elephantine fashion of boats, got into midstream. From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
"'Shalya said," Do not, O Suta's son, give away to any man a golden car with six bulls of elephantine proportions. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
But his life span, sadly, wasn't elephantine: in 1961 he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died a day after surgery. From Wordnik.com. [The Purpose-Driven Wife] Reference
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