| The sandy beach at Chintheche is one of the best on the entire lakeshore, hemmed in by smooth, elephantine rocks. |
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| He hasn't changed that recommendation, even though it's still unclear if the oilfields of Lake Albert really are of elephantine proportions. |
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| And although I've always loved caladiums for their cool elephantine leaves, I resent their invasion in my view. |
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| But they have an undeniable gentleness and elephantine beauty about them, with their hanging folds of skin and ponderous outlook on life. |
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| Grandma's elephantine ankles, mother's hypochondria, Grandpa's grubbiness, are all experienced as her own. |
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| According to Von Meyer no mandibular tusks were present and most probably the jaw possessed a short elephantine symphysis. |
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| The fruits are misshapen and unnatural looking, a kind of elephantine mutation of, say, cherries. |
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| We believe that a free and cohesive society is based on stable, clear, shared rules and not on elephantine bureaucracy. |
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| And,in its elephantine fashion,NATO now seeks to update its Strategic Concept. |
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| Nevertheless, sailors and divers have long understood that this elephantine fish is harmless. |
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| The gigantic, bipedal, elephantine creatures weighed several tons at the largest and had no problem knocking the eighty-foot trees aside as they ran. |
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| Lloyd Grove on the elephantine cleanup challenges of having an unruly collection of egomaniacs as backers. |
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| We went out to take some photographs in a marble courtyard replete with shrubbery and elephantine urns where uninterested figures dined al fresco. |
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| India's current rulers, the mahouts to an elephantine state, seem at least to understand this. |
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| It should be elephantine, this master-key. |
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| A Norman capital can be heavy because the Norman column is thick, and the whole thing expresses an elephantine massiveness and repose. |
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| In the face of this elephantine boil on the fat buttock of Westminster, we are being treated to prolonged national debate over the layout of Miliband's second kitchen. |
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| But Rwandan-backed rebels did take Kinshasa once before, in 1997, sweeping away the old dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, and installing Mr Kabila's elephantine father, Laurent. |
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| Europe cannot make any sensible policies in an elephantine body like the Ecofin: it is quite the opposite of good management, clear legislation and efficiency. |
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| The problems were huge, complicated, elephantine. |
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| The scene around them was currently plunged into gloom. Dark mists swirled round them and elephantine shapes lurked indistinctly in the shadows. |
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| The water gurgles between golden sand banks and rugged grey granite boulders that have given one island its name, Elephantine. |
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| Donat miss Aga Khanas mausoleum, the Monastery of San Simeon, the Abu Simbel Temple, and Elephantine Island. |
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