elephantine

• "He doesn't know how to do it in the least He doesn't know how to do anything," Lady Richard declared. "Most men are either elephantine or serpentine," said Fanny. —  Quisanté
• His form had neither the slenderness of his youth nor the elephantine magnitude of his later years; it was fully, but finely, developed, imposing and stately, yet not wanting in alertness and grace. —  Famous Americans of Recent Times
• William Buckland, whose scientific analysis of Megalosaurus bones in 1824 was the first such description of any dinosaur ever published, visualized it from its skull and thighbone as a carnivorous reptile of super-elephantine proportions, forty feet long and seven feet high. —  Asimov'sSF,August2006
• Then he was squeezing past the Doc without a word of greeting, moving with a kind of elephantine speed to the head of the stairs, where he grabbed Patrolman Motley by the arm Lester," he breathed, "you know what happens to a young cop goes to jail Lester stared at him What happens is, he winds up with a butt looks like the back end of a Thanksgivin' toikey. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 04-05 - October-November 2001
• Other investment companies provide good options that aren't as elephantine, he pointed out. —  Reflector - Latest Headlines from The Daily Reflector

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