14 Metaphors for elephants

As the elephant is a well-known animal, I shall only observe in general, that those of Africa are of a very large size, as may be easily conceived by the size of their teeth, which are imported into Europe.

The elephant is a rajah!

The strongest elephants should be up stream, as they help to break the force of the current for the weaker and smaller animals down below.

The elephants also, and ships of war, which were marked as the means of punishment, were publick property; and as they were considerable instruments of security and defence to their possessors, and of annoyance to an enemy, so their loss, added to the restrictions of the treaty, operated as a great and publick punishment.

The elephants were chewing hay and looking fierce, and the senator's boy said elephants were the greatest cowards on earth, and I said, "Not on your life; the giant in our show is the greatest coward, and the behemoth of holy writ is next."

; the former is more intelligent, and easily capable of being domesticated; the white elephant is a variety of this species.

He ordered that a garland should be placed on a she-elephant's trunk, and that the prince round whose neck the she-elephant threw the garland should be chosen to marry the king's daughter.

The elephant is a notable exception, but then the nose of the elephant, becoming a hand, has redeemed its mind.

Such creatures are bought at fabulous prices by the Malay and Siamese princes, to whom a white elephant is the greatest treasure that a king can possess.

The elephant, as is well known, is easily vulnerable in one spot only,the middle of the skull.

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So Manuel said: "The elephant is the largest of all animals, and in intelligence approaches the nearest to man.

If the small Elephant in the Gardens be a native of Ceylon, it is by no means a beautiful specimen of the variety.

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14 Metaphors for  elephants