dinotherium
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Or go to Germany, and imagine the bones of the dinotherium to start out of the soil, and become clothed with flesh and instinct with life.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward
"What am dat dinotherium?" asked Washington, entering the room at that moment and catching the word.
From Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record by Rockwood, Roy
Its mammoths and its mastodons, its rhinoceri and its hippopotami, its enormous dinotherium and colossal megatherium, greatly more than equalled in bulk the largest mammals of the present time, and vastly exceeded them in number.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh
A man sat on a rock and sought Refreshment from his thumb; A dinotherium wandered by And scared him some.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
They were accompanied by the remains of the mastodon, dinotherium, palæotherium, rhinoceros, gigantic sloth, and other extinct quadrupeds.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
It was chiefly in its middle and latter, or Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene ages, that the myriads of its huger giants,—its dinotheria, mastodons, and mammoths,—cumbered the soil.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh
The city of New York was sure of its site; but huge dinotheria wallowed in the mire where now stand the palaces of Paris, London, and Vienna.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James
This began a few thousand years ago, after ages and myriads of ages, after immense varieties of lives and generations, of corals and mollusks, saurians, iguanodons, and dinotheriums.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward
"And we, are likely to meet with stranger beasts than dinotheriums on Mars," said Mr. Roumann.
From Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record by Rockwood, Roy
Lastly, in the gardens are to be seen life-size reproductions of antediluvian monsters, megatheriums, dinotheriums, and others.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
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