37 examples of behemoths in sentences

If there be anything in it approaching to tumidity (which I meant not to infer; by "elaborate" I meant simply "labored"), it is the gigantic hyperbole by which you describe the evils of existing society: "snakes, lions, hyenas, and behemoths," is carrying your resentment beyond bounds.

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."

Pa had presence of mind enough to make the fat lady get down off the seat, and he put his feet on her to hold her down, the crowd yelled, and our zebras run into the cage ahead, containing the behemoth of Holy Writ, and knocked off a hind wheel, and every wagon ahead was either tipped over or disabled.

From that far-off day when Iseult "had always a little brachet with her that Tristram gave her the first time that ever she came into Cornwell," to the time when Dora cuddled Jip, even down to our own day, when the heroine of "Queed" walks forth with her Behemoth, girls both in fact and in fiction have played with dogs; played with them no less than boys.

Yon mountain, vast as Behemoth, Seems but a veil of silver breath; And soundless as a flittering moth, And gentle as the face of death, Stands this stern world of rock and tree Lost in some hushed sidereal dream The only living thing a bird, The only moving thing a stream.

giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; Triton among the minnows [Coriolanus].

Confident, however, in their own power, the majority in the house[a] [Footnote 1: Hobbes, Behemoth, 587.

In Job are two chapters concerning 'Behemoth' the whale, that by reason of him no man is in safety.

The 'Behemoth' of Job is beyond a doubt neither whale nor devil, but, I think, the hippopotamus; who is indeed as ugly as the devil, and will occasionally play the devil among the rice-grounds; but though in this respect a devil of a fellow, yet on the whole he is too honest a monster to be a fellow of devils.

This is still more remarkable in his Account of the Fifth and Sixth Days, in which he has drawn out to our View the whole Animal Creation, from the Reptil to the Behemoth.

This behemoth was compelled to seat himself on a small inverted saucer and row for dear life with a pair of toothpicks.

In the centre of the palace Miramon had set like a tower one of the tusks of Behemoth: the tusk was hollowed out into five large rooms, and in the inmost room, under a canopy with green tassels, they found the magician.

His opinions of Scotsmen or his opinions of poetry in themselves amount to littlethough they are far from being without their shrewd insightand much of the chinasuch as Milton's poetryamong which he gambolled, after the manner of Behemoth, chanced to be indestructible.

The Elihu speeches and the supplemental poem in description of wisdom in 28, and of the behemoth and leviathan in 40:15-41:34, probably come from the Greek period.

Behold Behemoth!

MARCUSE, INGE S. Behemoth: the structure and practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944.

Behemoth: the structure and practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944. 2d ed.

Behemoth, the story of power, by Eric Hodgins and F. Alexander Magoun.

MAGOUN, F. ALEXANDER, joint author. Behemoth.

Behold Behemoth!

Albert Marckwardt (A); 16Jan70; R477091. MARCUSE, INGE S. Behemoth.

NEUMANN, FRANZ. Behemoth; the structure and practice of national socialism.

Behemoth: the structure and practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944. 2d ed.

This is still more remarkable in his Account of the Fifth and Sixth Days, in which he has drawn out to our View the whole Animal Creation, from the Reptil to the Behemoth.

When the tide is running out swiftly, I have a splendid fight to get through the bridges, but always make it a rule to beat,though I have been jammed up into pretty tight places at times, and was caught once between a vessel swinging round and the pier, until our bones (the boat's, that is) cracked as if we had been in the jaws of Behemoth.

37 examples of  behemoths  in sentences