| Dr. Johnson relates the impression which the sight of these trunkless heads made upon him. |
| In spite of the chimp's increasing sophistication, the climactic, vast and trunkless Statue of Liberty, buried in sand and defining human civilisation as a forgotten colossal wreck, remains many winters away. |
| The trunkless hands then placed the dishes on the table, and the prince and white cat seated themselves. |
| And how came you, sir, to be thus housed in a trunkless head? |
| We now know the complete series of steps connecting elephants with ordinary trunkless, tuskless mammals. |
| What knowest thou of the runes of old, whispered by the trunkless skull to the mighty Odin? |
