The child studies and becomes a prodigy; he argues on his master's lessons; he finds that Fo has only been able to change himself into a white elephant, because that is the most beautiful of animals.
I have caught my white elephant, but what am I to do with him?
The tall golden points rose higher than the domes, and in many places red standards floated, and on all of them there was the figure of a White Elephant!
With a bitter smile I recalled the story of the English hunters in India who succeeded in capturing that most precious and sacred among all animals: a white elephant.
The house was a white elephant, but he could not conceive of his father living in a smaller place; and all the more did it all seem ironical.
To a European these spots appear blemishes, and the taste that leads the natives to admire them is probably akin to the feeling that has at all times rendered a white elephant an object of wonder to Asiatics.
According to this science, it was not the whiteness that was the criterion of a "white elephant.
The "White Elephant" was never ridden now, but the last King but one used frequently to ride its predecessor, acting as his own mahout.
So much, indeed, was the reverse, that a "white elephant" according to the science may be a brown elephant in actual colour.
His lordship, in so far as his literal claim to be styled a white elephant, was an impostor of the deepest dye and a very grim and ugly impostor to boot.
The Siamese do not call him a white elephant, but a "chang puak," a strange colored elephant.
Siam has also been denominated the land of the "white elephant," from the peculiar reverence shown for that animal.
Some travellers have stated that the white elephant is worshipped, but I have never seen anything of the kind, nor do I believe it.
We have always said “a white elephant” when we have meant something we didn’t know what to do with, since the King of Siam first sent a white elephant to a courtier whose fortune he wished to destroy.
Gautama Buddha, he descended into the womb of his mother in the form of a white elephant.
Among his possessions was a white elephant, which had the power of bringing down rain whenever it was needed.
There he continued until the time came for him to be born on earth as the Buddha of the present age, when he entered the right side of his mother in the form of a white elephant (p.
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