tusk

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• There was no crust of stalagmite overlying the mud in which the human skeleton was found, and no bones of other animals in the mud with the skeleton; but just before our visit in 1860 the tusk of a bear had been met with in some mud in a lateral embranchment of the cave, in a situation precisely similar to b, Figure 1, and on a level corresponding with that of the human skeleton. The Antiquity of Man
• Occasionally rorqual skulls have been discovered in which the long lower jaws have been stuck wedged inside various of the skull openings and with their tips protruding like tusks. From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
• Once when the late G.P. Sanderson was in a keddah, noosing wild elephants, and was assulted [sic] by a vicious tusker, his life was saved by a tame female elephant, whose boy driver caused her to attack the tusker with her head, and nearly bowl him over by the force of her blows upon his ribs. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
• Tusking," published in March 1986, was the first of his poems to appear in the TLS: a powerful frightening parable of coloniser and colonised, it is untypical of Imlah's work only in its short lines. Archive 2009-04-01
• The tusky but soft-hearted little brute kept nodding his round, sparsely covered head while he listened, exuding a smell of lavender-water, cigars, and gutta-percha. The Freelands
• The big ones with the tusks and the trunks are surely elephants. Times, Sunday Times
• Those involved in the trade can make millions of rupiah from the sale of the bones, tusks, ivory and fur of the animals.
• African elephant having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks.
• He was lucky enough to find one of the walrus ' tusks whole and undamaged. THE BROKEN GOD
• The latest research on mammoth tusks shows that young male mammoths were being forced out of family groups much earlier than normal.