One islander said the sight reminded him of an elephants' graveyard.

"We have a cafeteria, everyone calls it the Elephants' Graveyard."

"A sort of elephants' graveyard for the supernatural.

His father had talked about an elephants' graveyard, where the beasts came to die, leaving their valuable ivory tusks.

The huge locomotive shops resembled an elephants' graveyard.

When they were dying they walked all the way to the elephants' graveyard and then they lay down and just died.

Accumulations of modern elephant remains have been termed "elephants' graveyards", as these sites were erroneously thought to be where old elephants went to die.

As with the fabled elephants' graveyard, ships go to die at Rossville on Staten Island.

"In the elephants' graveyard.

We sway and groan past sidings where rusted engines lie like rotting corpses in an elephants' graveyard.

Look, Old Father Time resides in Shadows Fall, that small town in the back of beyond that's an elephants' graveyard for the supernatural.

In geology, "elephants' graveyard" is an informal term for a hypothetical accumulation of "large blocks of country rock stoped from the roofs of batholiths".

His master sets him to shooting elephants with a bow and arrow, which he does until the king of the elephants carries him off to the elephants' graveyard.

"Well, if you know all about it," I replied, "then you know that we were flim-flammed ourselves, and that there ain't no such thing as an elephants' graveyard.

An elephants' graveyard (also written elephant graveyard or elephant's graveyard) is a place where, according to legend, older elephants instinctively direct themselves when they reach a certain age.

Hence, perhaps, the migration of Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra" and its (mostly) "authentic" Shakespearean libretto to the elephants' graveyard.

The elephants' graveyard for TARDISes that is mentioned here is finally seen at the end of The Axis of Insanity.

Then, Tarzan and an army of apes and elephants arrive in time to rout both the lion men and the lions, after which they return the ivory to the elephants' graveyard.

In fact, The "I-Thought-He-Was-Dead" Quotient is a subclause of "The Magic Bean Factor," because infomercials are an elephants' graveyard of stars without series.

E Map A real find in the elephants' graveyard we like to call Waterloo, this lovely cafe-bar does a sideline in vintage Vespas so you can scoop while you scoot.

I stepped backward, out of the rodents' equivalent of the legendary elephants' graveyard, easing the door shut with a click so preternaturally soft that it could have been heard only by a cat on methamphetamines.

Chapter 12 THE ELEPHANTS' GRAVEYARD It didn't take me all that long to find another parish.

King hoped to be appointed as either CNO or Cominch, but on 15 June 1939, he was posted to the General Board, an elephants' graveyard where senior officers spent the time remaining before retirement.

Hooray for the elephants' graveyard and Metro's Africa as brought to life under the direction of Cedric Gibbons and Jack Conway - Tuesday at 8 P.M. on American Movie Classics.

All this, you see, was an innocent device to help save poor wretched scribblers from being shuffled off to the elephants' graveyard at a time when America seemed determined to get rid of all writers not named Stephen King.