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1. "We encountered a bench-legged monstrosity about the size of a mastodon," said Conan casually, holding out his wine goblet which Techotl filled with evident pleasure
2. mastodon and woolly mammoth, were hunted by humans
3. Ordinarily, trolls could digest anything, food or not: fish entrails, mastodon marrow, the yeasty sediment that collected at the bottom of their beer kegs
4. mastodon, Gasbag reached his hand out over it
5. Maybe a few mudfish! Maybe a mastodon shank or two! A voice in the back of his mind cautioned him against moving into a cave with who-knew how many
6. And, though the dark of night was preferable to daylight, the dark of night wasn’t what it had been in the days of the mastodon: now, the night was pierced by the lights of town
7. When a mastodon was within a foot of goring him with one of its monstrous tusks, Schnottweiper was there to put that mastodon down with a brain-bashing swipe of his club
8. The mastodon, however, was not to be intimidated
9. The mastodon hit him, at speed, taking its best shot at trampling the troll under its big flat feet
10. The mastodon hadn’t yet mastered the art of trampling,
11. For a mastodon, though, there are many ways of injuring those smaller and less fortunate
12. The mastodon, for its part, was looking wildly about, in search of the creature that had so recently been standing in front of it
13. Slimegobbler held onto the pelt of the mastodon as it rocketed left and then right
14. If the mastodon had been mad before, it was furious now
15. If the mastodon wanted a fight, though, this day it would be disappointed
16. Through the years, more than one troll had attempted to ride a mastodon
17. Mastodon riding, as exciting and dangerous as it was, eventually became not an activity but a memory, and most only remembered that first mastodon ride
18. It, too, however, was no mastodon
19. A pathetic land troll, and a rather puny descendent of the once-mighty mastodon
20. Animals of all sizes, from the mastodon to
21. Along with the mastodon and sabre-toothed tigers, common sense is extinct in America
22. In vain the mastodon retreats beneath its own powder'd bones,
23. "This lad will be an honor to his people," said Hawkeye, regarding the trail with as much admiration as a naturalist would expend on the tusk of a mammoth or the rib of a mastodon; "ay, and a thorn in the sides of the Hurons
24. Amongst us a simpleton, possessed by the demon of hate or cupidity, who has an enemy to destroy, or some near relation to dispose of, goes straight to the grocer's or druggist's, gives a false name, which leads more easily to his detection than his real one, and under the pretext that the rats prevent him from sleeping, purchases five or six grammes of arsenic—if he is really a cunning fellow, he goes to five or six different druggists or grocers, and thereby becomes only five or six times more easily traced;—then, when he has acquired his specific, he administers duly to his enemy, or near kinsman, a dose of arsenic which would make a mammoth or mastodon burst, and which, without rhyme or reason, makes his victim utter
25. A word was sufficient for him, sometimes a sign; the mastodon obeyed
26. It seemed as though the miserable old mastodon, invaded by vermin and oblivion, covered with warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed on rejected scraps
27. They turned and watched the man move ponderously, in fiery darkness, one step at a time, up into the tenement house, a creature with the ribs of a mastodon and the head of an unshorn lion, with great beefed arms, irritably hairy, painfully sunburnt
28. When I found in La Plata the tooth of a horse embedded with the remains of Mastodon, Megatherium, Toxodon and other extinct monsters, which all co-existed with still living shells at a very late geological period, I was filled with astonishment; for, seeing that the horse, since its introduction by the Spaniards into South America, has run wild over the whole country and has increased in numbers at an unparalleled rate, I asked myself what could so recently have exterminated the former horse under conditions of life apparently so favourable
29. So little is this subject understood, that I have heard surprise repeatedly expressed at such great monsters as the Mastodon and the more ancient Dinosaurians having become extinct; as if mere bodily strength gave victory in the battle of life
30. We may doubt whether they have thus changed: if the Megatherium, Mylodon, Macrauchenia, and Toxodon had been brought to Europe from La Plata, without any information in regard to their geological position, no one would have suspected that they had co-existed with sea-shells all still living; but as these anomalous monsters co-existed with the Mastodon and Horse, it might at least have been inferred that they had lived during one of the later tertiary stages
31. What wonder, then, that these Nantucketers, born on a beach, should take to the sea for a livelihood! They first caught crabs and quohogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they pushed off in boats and captured cod; and at last, launching a navy of great ships on the sea, explored this watery world; put an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at Behring's Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with the mightiest animated mass that has survived the flood; most monstrous and most mountainous! That Himmalehan, salt-sea Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!
32. I felt that this mastodon in petticoats had made me grow quite red with shame, and I told her pretty sharply that I had no need whatever of her services
33. —, — with bones of Mastodon, xlviii, 339
34. —, —, with bones of Mastodon, xlviii, 339
35. —, fossil teeth of the mastodon and horse, W
36. —, on the fossil mastodon, xi, 246; xii, 380
37. —, with bones of Mastodon, J
38. Cranium of the Mastodon, found near Bucyrus, Ohio, 189