This combination, of ratlike claws and pachydermatous-size insteps, causes the subject to be very cautious about where, and indeed when, he takes off his shoes. ❋ Hitchens, Christopher (2007)
But even a Flamburian may at last be pierced; and then (as with other pachydermatous animals) the hole, once made, is almost certain to grow larger. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Farther on, the pachydermatous lophiodon (crested toothed), a gigantic tapir, hides behind the rocks to dispute its prey with the anoplotherium ❋ Unknown (2003)
Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A dozen of red partridges and rays were speedily brought down, and Glenarvan also managed very cleverly to kill a TAY-TETRE, or peccary, a pachydermatous animal, the flesh of which is excellent eating. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Those having the fewest dermal plates were most agile, while their more pachydermatous mates toiled in ponderous slow motion. ❋ May, Julian, 1931- (1998)
It was a way of not examining that the years of his life were pyrrhic: that they had given to him affluence but at the cost of diminution of his humanity -- that each year he was becoming more pachydermatous than before with an inability to empathize with others which made them as disconnected to his life as a passing cumulous cloud. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
In advance of the troops came the armoured train, a pachydermatous monster which moved cumbrously in front of the column, and was saluted by the smoking wrath of big guns as soon as it appeared. ❋ Louis Creswicke (N/A)
Indifferent in perfunctory movements, taking money and threading her flowers, the saleswoman was as pachydermatous and robotic as the old woman and everyone else was. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The wonder is that the country ever got governed at all, but it seems that all public men who had any fixed and sensible ideas and wished to see them carried out, had to make themselves callous, pachydermatous, hardened against this offensive mud-slinging. ❋ Ralph Centennius (N/A)
It was his belief that it would be better to die of a heart attack with eyes wide open instead of bit by bit by withdrawing into his shell of pachydermatous affluence and indifference as he moved about in this world of suffering. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
By and by he will take the hint, if not wholly pachydermatous, and go away of his own accord. ❋ Ainsworth Rand Spofford (N/A)
There were heat and dust and discomfort, and weary, wretched animals looking out of cages at other weary, tortured animals, that were sometimes scarcely less pachydermatous than themselves. ❋ Ellis Meredith (N/A)
She had piqued his curiosity, aroused his interest and disturbed by just a pin-prick his pachydermatous equanimity; she would not raise again before the draw. ❋ Douglas Grant (N/A)
But then with so much that was deceased around him, meaningful relationships decomposing on the mound of earlier rot, he would have to be truly pachydermatous to not feel an impact from that which might seem extraneous. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Pray, my good Sir, does a man go to see the elephant only to call him a pachydermatous quadruped? ❋ Various (N/A)
But the present proprietor, being the reverse of pachydermatous, has substituted covered drains for stagnant ditches, filled up a number of slimy ponds as neither useful nor ornamental, and now in most seasons the gnats no longer occasion any annoyance. ❋ Various (N/A)
Why not add to the first class the pachydermatous indifference to rebuffs which is of such service to the social climber, and, to the second, taste in dress and the habit of not repeating stories? ❋ George Stuart Fullerton (N/A)
To the same pachydermatous class belong those individuals who will put all sorts of questions as to the private affairs of other people, but carefully shy off from any similar confidence as to their own affairs: also those individuals who borrow small sums of money and never repay them, but go on borrowing till the small sums amount to a good deal. ❋ Various (N/A)
