10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MASTODONTIC»
Discover the use of
mastodontic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mastodontic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Romance of Natural History
THE MASTODONTIC ERA. 27 the food of the animal : a mass of twigs, grass, and
leaves, in a half-bruised state, enclosed in a sort of sac, lay within the cavity of the
body, doubtless the contents of the stomach. Some of the twigs could be ...
2
The British pleistocene Mammalia
E. bombifrons and E. insignis present the next stage in departing from the
mastodontic type in the presence of seven, eight, or even nine ridges in their
intermediate molars. The Stegodons are differentiated from the mastodons by the
number ...
William Boyd Dawkins, William Ayshford Sanford, Sidney Hugh Reynolds, 1866
3
A Monograph of the British Pleistocene Mammalia
E. bombifrons and E. insignis present the next stage in departing from the
mastodontic type in the presence of seven, eight, or even nine ridges in their
intermediate molars. The Stegodons are differentiated from the mastodons by the
number ...
William Boyd Dawkins, W. Ayshford Sanford, Sidney Hugh Reynolds, 1872
4
The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume 1: A Novel
Crudely, violently, the sharp shadows and cones of light, the flatly intersecting
mastodontic limbs and faces, the hard diagonals and verticals contradicted the
deep, motionless density all around. The air was filled with the metallic singing of
...
5
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, Dictionary of Arts, ...
We shall ofl'er four cases of lacustrine deposits in England and Scotland: the two
oldest, of the elephantoidal era in England, and the mastodontic era in America;
the next indicative of some different local condition of drainage, coeval with the ...
... westwards towards Persepolis, and Zarathustra, yea, even he himself, who had
risen betimes from beside the embers of his mediumistic pyre in the depths of his
prehistorical cave, kicking aside the mastodontic bones of his monthly supper, ...
It might be the speed, but suddenly the brute passes wind, at which the woman
screams and curses again and again... and then it happens...our Mastodontic
friend pulls up short (I do not know if intentionally or if commanded by his mahout
) ...
Max Nadiero, Aldo Pironti, 2012
welkin, responded to by answering cheers from a big muster of henchmen on the
distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the mastodontic pleasureship slowly
moved away saluted by a final floral tribute from the representatives ofthefairsex ...
9
The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD ...
If the Wall had once been an instrument of the imperial will that brought it into
existence, it had by the eighth century taken on a life of its own as a mastodontic
holdover from an earlier age, an inescapable presence imbued with the
collective ...
10
The James Joyce Collection:
Amid cheers that rent the welkin, responded to by answering cheers from a big
muster of henchmen on the distant Cambrian and Caledonian hills, the
mastodontic pleasureship slowly moved away saluted by a final floral tribute from
the ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MASTODONTIC»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
mastodontic is used in the context of the following news items.
Bristol Motor Speedway: 55 Years Of NASCAR History
Because of its similarity with the mastodontic building of the roman age, its been defined “The Last Great Colosseum”. What's the history of this ... «Beyond the Flag, Mar 14»
Why Hugh Grant, king of the romcom, needs to clean up his act
They included: “puritanical, cowardly, mastodontic, atavistic, bovine, cretinous, splay-footed, ferret-like and feral”. Is it too late to change? «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 14»
London Art Exhibitions: Questions Of Space - March 2013
It certainly featured two of the more unusual words in a press release, 'tulku' being joined by the claim that it's 'a mastodontic exhibition' (ie one ... «ArtLyst, Feb 13»
Fourth time unlucky
Brazil is huge and this mastodontic size regarding almost everything allows Brazil to overcome its .... Mastodontic size and paquidermic speed. «The Economist, Aug 12»
Two Events At FestivaLetteratura 2012
... ago, and the many experimental physicists who put to work the Large Hadron Collider, the most mastodontic precision machne in the world. «Science 2.0, Aug 12»
Sir Alec Bedser
Gathering himself at the start of his run-in with three walking steps, he would approach the wicket with nine mastodontic strides. Arrived at the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 10»
