Then Odysseus speared him through the shoulder and the boar was slain.
See there the mark that the wildboar left on me in the days of my youth.
But before he could strike him, the boar charged, ripping deep into his flesh with his tusk.
On his foot is the scar that the tusk of a boar gave him in the old days.
The hounds’ loud voices have proclaimed to every living thing that death is abroad in the forest, and boar and roe have moved off to some deeper recess, where in shadowy silence they can spend the spring noontide unmolested.
On going up to him I found that he had fired at a boar standing end on to him some thirty yards off, and, as might be expected, with his extraordinary weapon, had only succeeded in frightening the beast.
But in my own mind I feel convinced that the boar that charged past me from his dark fastness at the root of that old chestnut was half as large again.
As we chatted he busied himself on a pair of rough sandals or mocassins he was making for me from the skin of a wild boar he had killed in the spring.
On trying the part of the forest in which I had killed my first bear on Monday, we could find no fresh traces of game, although the place was quite a warren of old boar runs, and full of beaten roads made by the bears.
As the hound closes the boar turns, and in the turning offers a fair mark for the rifle on the other side of the thicket; so once more old Shirka is saved from those gnashing ivory bayonets which he has so often rashly challenged.
As we poled our flat-bottomed boat along its sluggish waters, I had a glimpse every now and again of the track of boar or cazeole (roe), that made me long for a chance of a longer stay on its banks.
I had a faint idea that some one was calling me back, telling me that I ought not to follow a wounded boar in thick covert; but as my hackles were now fairly up, I crept and ran as well as I could after my wounded game.
The boar kept half growling, half grunting, while through it all in the distance came the tootle of our forester’s horn.
As for myself, I never quite recovered until I had slain a veritable wild boar long afterwards.
Then certifies your lordship that this night He dreamt the boar had razed off his helm.
Go, bid thy master rise and come to me; And we will both together to the Tower, Where, he shall see, the boar will use us kindly.
To fly the boar before the boarpursues Were to incense the boar to follow us And make pursuit where he did mean no chase.
Now, how different is the chase of the boar of India!
The narrative is as follows: "When the boar saw the tiger the latter roared.
Many a time has the wild boar hurled his great head and mountainous shoulders against the forelegs of a horse, bringing the hunter to the ground for mortal combat on foot.
Let it be remembered that the boaris an animal of great reputation among beasts.
Baden-Powell tells an amusing story of an impromptu boar hunt.
It is in hunting the wild boar that Baden-Powell has a universal reputation as a sportsman.
But the old boar did not seem to mind the roar so very much as might have been anticipated.
Hunting the boar takes place early in the morning and again in the evening, so that men find themselves with nothing to do for the greater part of the day.
Although dogs are not regularly used in hunting the wild boar they are sometimes employed for scouting in a particularly thick jungle, and Baden-Powell frequently went to work of this kind with a half-bred fox-terrier.
When Set at full moon hunted the boar in the Delta marshes, he probably hunted the boar form of Osiris, whose human body had been recovered from the sacred tree by Isis.
Tammuz also resembles in one of his phases the Celtic hero Diarmid, who was slain by the "green boar" of the Earth Mother, as was Adonis by the boar form of Ares, the Greek war god.
Mr. Garstang, in The Syrian Goddess, thinks it possible that the boar which killed Adonis was of totemic origin.
There is no direct evidence, however, to connect Tammuz's slayer with the boar which killed Adonis.
Set, the demon slayer of the harvest god, had also a boar form; he was the black pig who devoured the waning moon and blinded the Eye of Ra.
Then do you tell his lordship and the jury now that, as a matter of fact, you never shot a solitary tiger or speared a single boar in your life?
And pig-sticking, now--isn't a boarrather an awkward customer to tackle?
How did you come to be so alarmed by a boarder, when the attack of the fiercest tiger or wild boar never made you turn a hair?
When pursued or wounded in the chase, it will show fight like the wild boar of Europe.
The wild boar of India, however, is in some respects different from that of Europe; and naturalists generally class it as a distinct species.
A few moments later came the cry of a boar in pain; not the sound of a boar at the point of death, but the rattling sound of an interrupted struggle.
The knight should have called to his comrades, only a little way off, or kept quiet until the boar bled to death, but this took too much time.
The knight had gone only a few steps into the forest when he came upon the boar at the foot of a great oak.
It was a monstrous boar with long black bristles on his back and forehead; his skin like iron lay in thick folds on his neck and his feet were long and sinewy.
Seizing his silver-mounted rifle, with a happy expression he said to his guests: "Just stay here, there is a colossal boar near by.
The sow plunged blindly at the youth, while the boar stood still a moment, his bristles raised and ears pointed.
Throughout this wilderness are wild beasts of every kind; especially the wild boar that wallows in the swampy ground; and here too the stag grows to his greatest strength and beauty.
The serpent hissed, the malodorous beasts frothed at the mouth, the wild boar rubbed his tusks against his heels, and the wolf scratched the palms of his hands with the hairs of his snout.
The hyenas strode in front of him, the wolf and the wild boar brought up the rear.
For wild-boar hunting and perilous doublings, there were forty boarhounds as hairy as bears.
Out of the pieces there sprang a wild boar and galloped away, but the prince called his hounds to give chase, and they caught the boar and tore it to bits.
The dog remained true, and held the boar by one leg; but the boardid not discontinue to strike at the father with great fury.
A more formidable antagonist than a wild boar with these tremendous weapons in full play need not be wished for.
The flesh of the wild boar roasted and eaten cold is delicious.
The winged boar falls backwards, followed by a demon and a winged skeleton emblematic of the perpetual death of the wicked, while poor blindfolded Love writhes beneath the lash of Penitence.
We caught half a dozen trout, and then I took him to the Pulpit where we sat down and remained very quiet; and just at sunset three boar came out to feed on the oak mast; and he said that one of them was worth shooting!
Once a great boar charged, and was shot to pieces, spattering the steps of the shrine with blood.
Now and then the dark disturbance of the forest floor betrayed where the horny, furry snouts of boar had left furrows of fresh black earth amid the acorns.
Two shots followed; the old boar kneeled down very quietly like a trick-horse in a circus, still facing his enemies.
And you're wearing a bandage below your knee where the boar bit you when you gave him the coup-de-grace!
A ripple of rifle shots checked them; the old boar stood swinging his great furry head right and left; the yearling was down, twitching; the sow ran, screaming horribly.
But it really seemed too bad; the Herr Baron was fond of his shooting; Fritzl had reported some good antlers in the forest, and a grey boar or two--but enormous!
And you told him to dress the boar and send a cart for it.
In the course of the day the Arabs brought in a boar which they had killed in the morning.
The best localities forboar are near Solyman, in Tunisia, and Biserta, about fifty miles from Tunis.
Some capital wild boar they gave us for dinner, seemed to be an earnest of our return to sporting latitudes.
I have," he continued, "myself seen a boar repulse the attack of a young lion.
The wild boar was dispatched as a present to the consul.
The next day we started before sunrise to the river, where the boar was supposed to be.
The boar is given to Freyr, to whom and his sister Freya, as the gods of animal and vegetable fecundity, the northern people offered that animal, as the Italian people did, to the earth.
For some time the vestry meetings were regularly held there, but it was observed that the old Boar never held up his head under church government.
When at last he is shot, the boar is capital eating.
If we could shoot a wild boar every few days, we would be sure to fare very well during our hunting expedition.
The wildboar is as fast as a horse, and as savage as the crossest bull.
The old boar is still at the stables of this inn, but I hear he is to come on board with the sailing orders: but he is very savage, and is therefore left on shore to the very last moment.
When we arrived in London, they drove to the Blue Boar (in a street, the name of which I have forgotten).
Therefore the harvests have failed, and the wolf-hordes have ravaged the folds, and the strength has departed from the bow, and the wood of the spear has broken, and the wild boar has slain the huntsman.
There were wide moors where the wolves hunted in packs as if the devil drove them, and tangled thickets where the lynx and the boar made their lairs.
The boarhad taken refuge within, and had taken his stand behind what appeared to be a mass of stone.
The jovial count was up at early dawn pursuing a boar in the thick forest bordering the Tagus, when he beheld the little ark floating down the stream.
In the mean time Pelayo was on a hill near a narrow pass, awaiting a wild boar which his huntsmen were to rouse.
In the course of the chase he roused a monstrous boar and pursued it among rocks and brakes until he became separated from his attendants.
