mastodon

• There is no other writer who is so capable of perpetuating for us, in a work of art, a style of thought and manners which railways and newspapers will soon render as palæozoic as the mastodon or the megalosaurians. —  The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
• At East Boston you cannot see what underlies this deposit; but no doubt it rests upon a rounded mass of granite, polished and grooved like several others in Boston harbor In our journey to Niagara, Mr. Desor and I assured ourselves that the river deposits, in which, among other things, the mastodon is found with the fresh-water shells of Goat Island, are posterior to the drift. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
• By the time you're fourteen or fifteen, Minnie the mastodon is not going to get you into the library. —  BookLust
• And the mastodon was almost on top of him, bearing down like some mighty and remorseless engine of blind destruction He flung himself to one side and the giant brushed past him. —  Project Mastodon
• Their colour, in temperate countries, is brown, and it becomes lighter and lighter in proportion as they approach toward the south, yet no where becomes white 3) Carcajous and Foxes make war in company._--p. 55 The carcajou, or wild cat, is the natural enemy of the elk, which, by the by, has become almost as rare an animal on the western continent as the mastodon or mammoth. —  Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)

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