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Huge creature found in shell of bizarre male insect?
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behemoth
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Behemoth , full title Behemoth: the history of the causes of the civil wars of England, and of the counsels and artifices by which they were carried on from the year 1640 to the year 1660 , also known as The Long Parliament , is a book written by Thomas ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., huge biblical beast (Job xl:15), from Latin behemoth , from Hebrew b'hemoth , usually taken as intensity of b'hemah "beast." But the Hebrew word is perhaps a folk etymology of Egyptian pehemau , literally "water-ox," the name for the hippopotamus.\n\nLong ...
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Behind him sat the apish behemoth Jingles with his head swathed in white gauze.
The dreadnought was a behemoth, and its numerous cannons poked out of its gun deck like the thorns of a beautiful, dangerous rose.
When he withdrew his hard-munching lips and his behemoth tongue, she felt dizzy, and the scene broke up into slices and flakesthe black-tie Holstein bulls rutting rutting rutting ruttinga flash of I.
Something within this venerable behemoth had stricken Tyran with a slow but fatal ailment.
The behemoth forgot the still figure, realizing now that he still had a chance to avenge himself on living, fragile creatures, most especially the mate of the Bedlam whelp.
But the perfidious Behemoth doused the confectionery counter with benzene from his primus, as one douses a bench in a bathhouse widi a tub of water, and it blazed up of itself.
The behemoth tumbled to the ground again, all strength and resilience gone, and waited for death to take it.
Unable to get around the two behemoths so that they could grab Megatron from behind, they had transformed into vehicles and drove away, seeking side-streets and parallel roads they could use to box their way around, motor up behind the Decepticon, and transform again, only now in position to truly help Prime stop Megatron.
All, he noticed, appeared smaller than the white behemoth he drank from that first night, but like the Charolais bull, the black steer he finally approached yielded to him, and he fed, wishing he had some way to refrigerate his thermos so he could bring it along and fill it up.
Zapotec, Maya or Chichimec, fell in behind the striding behemoth that was Coatlicue, crying, sobbing, dancing, their heart pounding with joy.
The engineer, on the lead dimetrodon, signaled and moved the train of behemoths out into traffic.
The first practical hair dryer -- a behemoth weighing nearly six stones and standing ten hands high -- was the lifework of Rapunzel Shoat of Bleeding Oaks, California.
Around and above, schools of yellowfin and waving strands of kelp swept past the slowly swimming behemoth.
One of the stone behemoths was at the spot almost immediately, leaning over the helpless man, its huge hand chopping down to squash Avelyn flat.
Leaping above him, the first of the behemoths started sprinting forward and his fellows followed in a tight arrow formation.