megatheria

Surely they were the weirdest, most destructive and wasteful megatheria in the whole history of mechanical invention.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

Here he stood facing an immense collection of scattered leptotheria, mericotheria, lophiodia, anoplotheria, megatheria, mastodons, protopithecæ, pterodactyles, and all sorts of extinct monsters here assembled together for his special satisfaction.

Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

The SLANG Dictionaries are both as ill-done as possible, and the author of the smaller one deserves to be put under the pump for taking the name of the illustrious Ducange, one of those megatheria of erudition and industry that we should look on as an extinct species, but for such men as the brothers Grimm.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

All over the town manufactories and public buildings of colossal size stand, like megatheria, knee-deep in a jungle of houses.

Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 Various

I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick’s Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks one on another.

XVI. English Traits. Stonehenge 1909

Surely they were the weirdest, most destructive and wasteful megatheria in the whole history of mechanical invention.

The War in the Air 1906

I, who had just come from Professor Sedgwick's Cambridge Museum of megatheria and mastodons, was ready to maintain that some cleverer elephants or mylodonta had borne off and laid these rocks one on another.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 Various 1885

The enquirer who undertakes the study of it will sometimes be scarcely less surprised than would be the naturalist who should unexpectedly stumble upon antediluvian megatheria grazing tranquilly in the same field with prize Southdowns.

Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

Abbey House: the monster salmon under whose weight the serving man staggered; the sprawling gigantic turbot, arabesqued with sliced lemon and barberries; the prize turkey, too big for anything but a poultry show; these leviathans and megatheria of the market were seen no more.

Vixen, Volume II. 1875

Here he stood facing an immense collection of scattered leptotheria, mericotheria, lophiodia, anoplotheria, megatheria, mastodons, protopithecæ, pterodactyles, and all sorts of extinct monsters here assembled together for his special satisfaction.

A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866