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Example sentences for "wild elephant"

  • And when a wild elephant came at him trumpeting, he circled round it and cut off with his sword its trunk and feet, and stripped it of its jewel, and killed it.

  • Thereupon she, longing for death, flung herself down in front of a wild elephant, but even he spared her as if out of compassion.

  • Then the hermit was angry, and denounced this curse on the king, "O man blinded with intoxication, you shall fall from your throne, and become a wild elephant.

  • This would at first thought seem to be entirely insufficient to keep off so powerful a creature, but the fact is that a wild elephant in Ceylon is so wary that he will not trespass upon land thus guarded.

  • Almost the entire process of breaking in or training a wild elephant is that of starvation.

  • There is a vast difference between a tame and a wild elephant; the latter, when entirely subdued and domesticated, is of comparatively little consequence.

  • And I see anyone I please, and at my own time, and go, like a wild elephant, wherever inclination leads me.

  • And standing on the back platform of our tiny carriage my subaltern and I strove to pierce its gloomy depths, half hoping to see the giant bulk of a wild elephant or a rhinoceros.


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