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Definition of Behemoths
1. behemoth [n] - See also: behemoth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Behemoths
Literary usage of Behemoths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Media and Democracy in South Africa by Jane Duncan, Mandla Seleoane (1998)
"74 See Chapter 13, entitled 'Alternative Visions' in Richmond A, Global Apartheid ...
pages 218-233. 75 Smith A, The Age of the behemoths ... page 74. ..."
2. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb by Maurice Henry Hewlett, Laurence Binyon, Edward James Hewlett, William Randolph Hearst, Jonathan Swift, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Edward Verrall Lucas, Frederick Madison Smith, Mariano Tomás (1905)
"Snakes, Lions, hyenas and behemoths, is carrying your resentment beyond bounds.
The pictures of the Simoom, of frenzy and ruin, of the whore of Babylon and ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1859)
"... Or was at least most filthy loath to try. “ Leviathan the great is fain !
But see The small behemoths of his Progenie Survive to duel all ..."
4. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1897)
"... he has exalted Dr. Johnson, that honest pedant, the most grotesque of literary
behemoths. His principle is, that in a work of the mind, form is little, ..."
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