Elephants

Examples

• One of his favourite amusements, we are told, was the expensive one of rolling elephants down precipitous places in order to watch their sufferings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At Dewlish in Dorset, an artificial trench has been found which is supposed to have been a Pal?olithic trap for elephants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants--I beg your pardon; I should have said the elements. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• There was nothing the young gentleman would have liked better, but elephants could not have dragged him back after the scolding he had received. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But no temperature made the melancholy mad elephants more mad or more sane. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• There are pre-dynastic Neolithic Egyptian representations of Nile ships of a fair size, capable of carrying elephants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At first there were hippopotami, rhinoceroses, mammoths, and elephants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Also to Ceylon, specially for elephants' tusks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• We have already noted the name of King Porus whom, in spite of his elephants, Alexander defeated and turned into a satrap. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The pawns were little green and white men, with real swords and shields; the knights were on horseback, the castles were on the backs of elephants. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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