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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

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

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

He discards lumbering descriptions, antique melodramatics, set developments and dénouements, mastodonic structures.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

Musically, it is the most impressive of this extraordinary mastodonic survival of the "pianistic" past.

From Chopin : the Man and His Music by Huneker, James