"Elephantiasis" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was a rather large man with elephantiasis of the temper. I distinctly recalled one occasion when I was spending a school vacation at his home, and he found me trying to shave old Duggie, then a kid of fourteen, ...
— A Wodehouse Miscellany - Articles & Stories • P. G. Wodehouse
... is rendered still more revolting by the frequent bodily infirmities which everywhere meet the eye: among these elephantiasis, causing horrible club-feet, is especially conspicuous; there is, too, no scarcity of persons afflicted with blindness and other ills. Even the cats and dogs, that run about the gutters in great numbers, partake ...
— A Woman's Journey Round the World • Ida Pfeiffer |
