A fossil extinct quadruped, belonging to the order Pachydermata, resembling a pig, or tapir, but of great size.
One family of the latter he called "sauroid fish," including the megalicthys and holoptychius, often of great size, and all predaceous.
In these seas are certain oysters, called Bras, having shells of so great size, that they might serve as fonts for baptizing children.
In Cuba, they attain a great size, and have been known to walk off with five or six men standing upon them.
There are several varieties of this root, some of which attain a great size; it abounds in a saccharine milky juice, which stains the flesh touched by it.
Nevertheless our men presently ventured to advance in full confidence, and found the roads blockaded by oaks, ashes, and pines, of great size, cut down and laid together.
The Protorosaurs were not of great size; but they must have been creatures of more stately gait then their Carboniferous predecessors, and they serve to connect them with the new and greater reptiles of the next period.
The tree is hardy, but a weak and slender grower, and never attains a great size.
The tree is a free and vigorous grower, but does not attain a great size.
As it does not attain a great size, it may be grown more closely together than most other sorts.
The tree is a strong and vigorous grower, attaining a great size, and is an excellent bearer.
The tree is a slender grower, and never attains a great size, but is a good bearer.
An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon.
The fruit is of great size, weighing from thirty to forty pounds, and through its soft fibrous matter are scattered the seeds, which are roasted and eaten.
They are usually of great size, and are either pinnately or palmately many-cleft.
An extinct quaternary mammal, of great size, allied to the sloth.
When fully exposed to view by the trench which was dug around it, the canoe was seen to be of great size, ornately finished, and in a fair state of preservation.
Below the surface were found the bones and antlers of a red deer of great size, kitchen vessels of bronze (brass) (=Figs.
He said that she would be of great size and of a yellow shade.
He was a man of great size, clad in black armor without blazonry or ornament of any kind, for all worldly display was forbidden by the rules of the military brotherhood to which he belonged.
The prince's reception-room, although of no great size, was fitted up with all the state and luxury which the fame and power of its owner demanded.
His claws were long and strong, his canine teeth of great size, and his eyes deeply sunk in his head.
From this cause the animals on the islands grow to a great size, and their flesh is of a particularly fine flavour.
They were both of great size--the largest being over twelve or thirteen feet in length.
I told them that at Nanomaga I had caught palu (a nocturnal feeding fish of great size) in over sixty fathoms with that same line.
The difficulties of the navigation had hitherto been considered an insuperable obstacle; although the river is of great size, the current runs with prodigious force, and there are numerous shoals and rocks in its course.
Henry the Second, in the year 1171, collected or built a fleet of four hundred ships of great size, for the purpose of carrying over his troops for the conquest of Ireland, which country he annexed to the English crown.
They were probably thus not only of great size, but well built, and were certainly finished and ornamented in an elegant and even a magnificent manner, far superior to that of many ages later.
He busied himself instead with a wonderful series of pictures, mostly of no great size, in which he showed an astonishing command over vivacities of technique and modulations of colour.
In the forests of Mar and Invercauld, the native pine attains a great size, and there are also large tracts of indigenous birch in various districts.
The mills are often of great size, built on piles over tide water and so arranged that their product is delivered directly from the saws and dry kilns to vessels moored alongside.
For he says that young children grow to a great size if they are fed on the juice of figs.
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