pachydermatous
Usage examples for pachydermatous:
-
The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman" – Thomas Hardy -
I have, for instance, not even mentioned the sea, which swept smoother and smoother in toward the feet of those precipices and grew more and more trans- lucently purple and yellow and green, while half a score of cascades shot straight down their fronts in shafts of snowy foam, and over their pachydermatous shoulders streamed and hung long reaches of gray vines or mosses.
"Roman Holidays and Others" – W. D. Howells -
Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour.
"The Wisdom of Father Brown" – G. K. Chesterton -
But if you don't leave your spun- sugar confectionery business once in a while, and come out among lusty men,- the bristly, pachydermatous fellows that hew out the highways for the material progress of society, and the broad- shouldered, out- of- door men that fight for the great prizes of life,- you will come to think that the spun- sugar business is the chief end of man, and begin to feel and look as if you believed yourself as much above common people as that personage of whom Tourgueneff says that " he had the air of his own statue erected by national subscription."
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr." – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)