It would be trodden under foot by the log-roller's elephantine jocosity.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
Miss Hemphill and her young man, a clerk in the Deep Harbor Smelting Company, teased us, until we reached the club, with well meant but rather elephantine wit.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
It is hard when reading the Rambler to recognise the massive common sense and deep feeling struggling with the ponderous verbiage and elephantine facetiousness; yet it was not only a treasure of wisdom to the learned ladies, Mrs. Chapone, and Mrs. Elizabeth Carter and the like, who were now beginning to appear, but was received, without provoking ridicule, by the whole literary class.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen