pachydermatous

• “This combination, of ratlike claws and pachydermatous-size insteps, causes the subject to be very cautious about where, and indeed when, he takes off his shoes.”

  On the Limits of Self-Improvement, Part I

• “But even a Flamburian may at last be pierced; and then (as with other pachydermatous animals) the hole, once made, is almost certain to grow larger.”

  Mary Anerley

• “Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour.”

  The Complete Father Brown

• “Farther on, the pachydermatous lophiodon (crested toothed), a gigantic tapir, hides behind the rocks to dispute its prey with the anoplotherium”

  Journey to the Interior of the Earth

• “A dozen of red partridges and rays were speedily brought down, and Glenarvan also managed very cleverly to kill a TAY-TETRE, or peccary, a pachydermatous animal, the flesh of which is excellent eating.”

  In Search of the Castaways

• “Those having the fewest dermal plates were most agile, while their more pachydermatous mates toiled in ponderous slow motion.”

  Perseus Spur

• “She had piqued his curiosity, aroused his interest and disturbed by just a pin-prick his pachydermatous equanimity; she would not raise again before the draw.”

  The Fifth Ace

• “In advance of the troops came the armoured train, a pachydermatous monster which moved cumbrously in front of the column, and was saluted by the smoking wrath of big guns as soon as it appeared.”

  South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899

• “The wonder is that the country ever got governed at all, but it seems that all public men who had any fixed and sensible ideas and wished to see them carried out, had to make themselves callous, pachydermatous, hardened against this offensive mud-slinging.”

  The Dominion in 1983

• “By and by he will take the hint, if not wholly pachydermatous, and go away of his own accord.”

  A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

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