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In the precise rectangular criss-cross of streets that is Mexico City popped myriads of firecrackers, detonated cannon crackers as bulkily potent as an elephant's wrist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bevan Ernest Bevin, the bull elephant of British labor, last week sat bulkily silent, beadily watchful, in the back row at a caucus of Parliament's Laborite members.

From Time Magazine Archive

While Khrushchev sat bulkily silent on the platform.

From Time Magazine Archive

It contained my late entertainer, Mrs. Canty, seated bulkily in the stern, while a small boy bowed himself between the two heavy oars.

From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin

At that moment Young Denny’s bulkily slender body was even more deceptive.

From Once to Every Man by Fischer, Anton Otto