white elephantin a sentence
- The Overlook Hotel, a white elephant that has been run lucklessly by almost a dozen different groups and individuals since it first opened its doors in 1910, is now being operated as a security-jacketed "key club," ostensibly for unwinding businessmen.† (source)
- Publicly he called it his White Elephant.† (source)
- THE BUDDHA DESCENDED from heaven to his mother's womb in the shape of a milk-white elephant.† (source)
- 'They look like white elephants,' she said.† (source)
- 'They don't really look like white elephants.† (source)
- I said the mountains looked like white elephants.† (source)
- And if Will Benteen can't make a go of the cotton, I'm willing to chip in and help out on that white elephant in Clayton County that you love so much.† (source)
- When Kona went out next day to graze the cows, playing music on his flute, the King of Heaven came down on his great white elephant, Airavata, fell on his face at the feet of the smiling lad, and made submission.† (source)
- But if I do it, then it will be nice again if I say things are like white elephants, and you'll like it?'† (source)
- And then as an afterthought he added: "Gulden might not think you—a white elephant on his hands!† (source)
- Amory had lately received several alarming letters from Mr. Barton—the Lake Geneva house was too large to be easily rented; the best rent obtainable at present would serve this year to little more than pay for the taxes and necessary improvements; in fact, the lawyer suggested that the whole property was simply a white elephant on Amory's hands.† (source)
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- …some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls; and though various nations have in some way recognised a certain royal preeminence in this hue; even the barbaric, grand old kings of Pegu placing the title "Lord of the White Elephants" above all their other magniloquent ascriptions of dominion; and the modern kings of Siam unfurling the same snow-white quadruped in the royal standard; and the Hanoverian flag bearing the one figure of a snow-white charger; and the…† (source)
- [28] Concerning the American Language, in The Stolen White Elephant; Boston, 1882.† (source)
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