Among nearly 60 species represented, the elephant-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Homo erectus Tools in China] Reference

Its feet were clawed, not really elephant-like except for the size.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Don’t Understand ?] Reference

'Is all right, I say?' again asked Moore, when the elephant-like leader's nose almost touched his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

It had an elephant-like trunk, terminating in a ring of pseudodactyls which must be as strong and sensitive as human fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trader To The Stars]

It seems clear that an elephant-like animal, a mastodon or gomphothere, extinct for 12,000 years, was the intended consumer of avocados.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Third Ghost] Reference

What do appear to exist, and are graphically shown, are small, elephant-like ears, different than found on rhinoceros or allegedly on dinosaur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: January 22, 2006 - January 28, 2006 Archives] Reference

One stone outside the circle seems to have carvings that resemble a mastodon—an elephant-like animal that went extinct about 10,000 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Stonehenge" in Lake Michigan?] Reference

Then, resigning itself to rude treatment, it obediently kneeled on its elephant-like legs, giving Chris a chance to slip his feet over the side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

My heart trembleth (to remember) that even in their childhood, Duryodhana and other sons of mine, while fighting with him (sportively) were always ground down by the elephant-like Bhima.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

On one level, militant cats and herds of alien elephant-like beings are hard to take seriously, but Larry is always able to make them do the real job of science fictional aliens: illustrate what it is to be human.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: The Best Aliens in Science Fiction] Reference

By the way, it's only a matter of time until Big Bird gets cast on "Glee" as one of Rachel's feathered, distant and vaguely delusional cousins who teaches the "Glee" kids it's okay to believe in imaginary elephant-like creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anne Hathaway reportedly will play Kurt's lesbian aunt on 'Glee'] Reference

Ultimately, though, the reader can't help but be propelled through the book by the sheer number of fascinating anecodotes (a favorite: enslaved Africans in Virginia were the first to identify mastodon bones as belonging to an elephant-like animal).    From Wordnik.com.  [Books: Legendary Bones] Reference

Some plants and animals -- like tiny little shrews with elephant-like trunks known as elephant shrews and nocturnal primates with large eyes known as bushbabies -- are thought to have evolved early in the species lineage, known as 'primitive' or 'ancient relic lineages.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference

And, now that I think about it, perhaps this strange elephant trunk display doesn't, in fact, indicate such a high level of stupidity -- performers, sans pants, probably sport the flat asexual look of a Ken doll -- this is all a desperate cry for the lords of science to bequeath them with a functioning elephant-like dangle between the legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fitment Issues: K.O.P.S. vs. C.O.P.S.] Reference

"Hold," he cried: the elephant-like machine stopped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rides on Railways] Reference

The financial sector is growing to elephant-like proportions.    From Wordnik.com.  [CPUSA Front Page] Reference

The legs were short, massive and straight, ending probably in elephant-like feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dinosaurs With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections] Reference

I ran into a giant elephant-like creature, which took me out in a couple of seconds with one stomp.    From Wordnik.com.  [GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features] Reference

Another set of alleged transitional forms are early elephant-like fossils connecting Mastodons and Elephants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution News & Views] Reference

Terrific reptiles feeding on the brinks of marshes, and huge elephant-like animals moving between palms beyond.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Allan] Reference

Dinosaurs were everywhere, animatronic jaws opening and closing, letting out pre-recorded elephant-like roars on a constant loop.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Increased consumption of grasses by mixed feeders and elephant-like mammals indicates Florida's grasslands likely expanded during interglacial periods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference

But with its elephant-like appearance, it's easy to see why this odd creature, found more than a mile beneath the ocean, has been nicknamed Dumbo by scientists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

And it is, it turns out, a fossilized tooth of a woolly mammoth, a elephant-like animal that lived in North America during the Pleistocene epoch, 1.6 million to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Postbulletin.com Local News] Reference

Lastly we have the wonderful series of discoveries made about twelve years ago by Dr. Andrews (of the Natural History Museum) of elephant-like creatures in the upper Eocene of the Fayoum Desert of.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference

And, in fact, we are conducted through a series of changes of form by ancient elephant-like creatures which are of older and older date as we pass along the series, and are known as (1) Mastodon, (2).    From Wordnik.com.  [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference

But it's highly likely that the first generations of humans who arrived in East and Southeast Asia were quite familiar with these elephant-like creatures with bizarre tusks that ran parallel closely together towards the ground before curving upwards like a pair of long horns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The annotated budak] Reference

Previous tool discoveries showed that hominins had arrived on Flores by 880,000 years ago, suggesting that the hobbit's ancestors might have wiped out some of the island's peculiar indigenous animals, such as the pygmy elephant-like Stegodon sondaari and giant tortoises (Geochelone spp.), which both disappeared at around the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

Nerle did not notice the prince's swift gesture nor the whispered word; but he was staring straight at Terribus at the time, and he saw with surprise the eye on the top of the king's head move down toward his forehead, and the eye in the center of his forehead slide slightly toward the left, and the elephant-like nose shrink and shorten at the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enchanted Island of Yew] Reference

Perhaps you all have elephant-like memories?.    From Wordnik.com.  [50 entries from June 2007] Reference

"You can trace how the anatomy has changed from a general, elephant-like animal to this very specialized creature that is the woolly mammoth," says Adrian Lister of the Natural History Museum in London and the author of ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com] Reference

It couldn't penetrate that elephant-like armor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference

"Ach! want der supper," he said, his face brightening, and, turning, he jogged on, elephant-like, before, muttering something about himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference

The Big Doctor approached slowly, elephant-like in his noiseless, rolling gait, impressive, as is an elephant, in size, in the feeling he imparted of restrained strength, of intense intelligence, masked, as in an elephant, with benevolence, and held watchfully in reserve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mount Music] Reference