mastodonic
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Then new and strange gifts to Orpheus from Mr. Carillo were played: the arpacitera, a mastodonic zither, tuned in 16ths; the octavina, a towering double-bass guitar, capable of eighths; a guitarre adapted to produce quarter-tones.
From Time Magazine Archive
Richard Nixon's onetime right-hand man was pleased with the honor-and with the likeness, which he said captured what "pundits" called his "squinty little eyes and mastodonic nose."
From Time Magazine Archive
This season the mastodonic Easter, who makes a bat look like a baton, has made American League pitchers dread his appearance at the plate.
From Time Magazine Archive
In superficial survey the mesa seemed much like the stranded carcass of a mastodonic creature left behind when the waters departed from these inland seas.
From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn
For Felipe, acting for once in the capacity of work-horse, was straining along at the end of a huge wagon-tongue affixed to a crude and mastodonic axle which in turn supported two monolithic cart-wheels.
From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Marcus Horton
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