"Not that I think much depends On how we treat our feathered friends, Or hold the wrinkled elephant A nobler creature …"

"In the High and Far-Off Times the Elephant, O Best Beloved, had no trunk. He had only a blackish, bulgy nose, as big …"

"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."

"Elephant-ear-witnesses-to-be of hymns and glorias, these ministrants all gray or gray with white on legs or trunk, ar…"

"An elephant can trumpet and shake the earth but not the self-possession of the ants who hold it."

"Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant, The only harmless great thing."

"His services are like so many white elephants, of which nobody can make use, and yet that drain one's gratitude, if i…"

"The torn boughs trailing o'er the tusks aslant, The saplings reeling in the path he trod, Declare his might — our lor…"

"Early one morning the sub-inspector at a police station the other end of the town rang me up on the phone and said th…"

"The people deck him like a docile king of elephants."