Clupea, for example, repulsed him, and he was obliged to retire in disgrace from Hippo Diarrhytus, after having lost the whole summer in front of it and having had his besieging apparatus twice burnt.
A little further on a bull hippo charged at them, but the glare of the light full in his eyes stopped him, and he remained open-mouthed, so that all they saw was a yawning gulf bristling with ivory.
The hippo reappeared aft with a snort, and, much to their relief, continued down the channel into the wider waters.
The boat hummed along, drew up to the nose of the island, skirted its reedy side, where stood a hippo eating at the rank grass, and then dropped it astern.
The hippo was still in it, and the hippo was very heavy himself, weighing as much as two tons of coal.
The only case I know of a man being killed by a hippo was at Mumia’s, in Kavirondo.
I have only once had a wounded hippo attempt to get out of the water at me, but as I was on the river bank, a foot or two above it, it never had a chance, and dropped dead to a shot between the eyes.
The food of thehippo consists of coarse grass, reeds, and other plants growing in damp and wet places.
I know that a young woman of Hippo was immediately dispossessed of a devil, on anointing herself with oil mixed with the tears of the presbyter who had been praying for her.
At Hippo a Syrian called Bassus was praying at the relics of the same martyr for his daughter, who was dangerously ill.
As the traces of Hippo and its church are swept away or deeply buried, we are obliged, in order to get some approximate idea, to turn towards another African town which has suffered less from time and devastation.
Theveste with its basilica, the best preserved, the finest and largest in all Africa, can restore to us a little of the look and colour and atmosphere of Hippo in those final years of the fourth century.
Like all the communities of that time, Hippo maintained a population of beggars.
Certainly this road from Hippo to Theveste was one of the busiest and most picturesque in the province: it was one of its main arteries.
Possibly the situation had become slightly better in Hippo since the edict of Theodosius.
The Bishop of Hippo severely condemns all these devious or shameful ways, all these compromises which are contrary to the pure moral teaching of the Gospel.
But it matters not which spot is chosen in the surroundings of Hippo to place Augustin's monastery, the view will be equally beautiful.
About the same time, the Donatists of Hippo made a great noise over the rebaptizing of another apostate from the Catholic community.
This one lay along the military road which ran from Hippo to Theveste--a great Roman causeway paved with large flags on the outskirts of towns, and carefully pebbled over all the rest of the distance.
Henceforward, his army, turning against the Barbarians, might protectHippo and perhaps save Africa.
The priest of Hippo did not lose his head among so many honours.
Very likely the basilicas at Hippo had neither the size nor the splendour of this one.
Boniface, having failed in his endeavours to negotiate the retreat of the Vandals, was defeated by Genseric, and obliged to fall back into Hippowith an army of mercenary Goths.
It is clear that the Bishop of Hippo could scarcely have given any other advice to the Count of Africa.
Hippo endeavoured to escape on a ship, and was taken.
But after much time had passed by, since they were unable to secure Hippo Regius either by force or by surrender, and since at the same time they were being pressed by hunger, they raised the siege.
But an opposing wind brought him back, much against his will, into the harbour of Hippo Regius.
And when Belisarius arrived at Hippo Regius, Boniface sent some men to him.
Hippo Regius is now Bona, or rather has been replaced by that town, which lies about a mile and a half north of the ancient Hippo, close upon the coast, in the fertile tract formed by the soil brought down by the river Seybouse.
The fertile coast tract between Hippo Regius and the straits is likely to have been occupied at various points from an early period.
Some resting-places between the middle Mediterranean and Southern Spain must have been a necessity; and as the North African coast west ofHippo offered no good harbours, it was necessary to seek them elsewhere.
Peter of Hippo Diarrhytus, the opinion of, on the baptism of heretics, 215.
Towards the close of the century, this schism attracted the attention of Augustine, then a priest of Hippo Regius in Numidia.
Theogenes of Hippo Regius[459] said: "According to the sacrament of the heavenly grace of God which we have received, we believe in the one only baptism which is in the holy Church.
Hippo Regius, the see of Augustine himself, was on the coast of Numidia.
A hippohad blundered out the wrong side the river, and fairly into our camp.
I have known of a hippo quite happily occupying a ditch pool ten feet wide and fifteen feet long.
There are always plenty of volunteers in camp to watch the pool, for the boys are extravagantly fond of hippo meat.
There we had enjoyed some duck, goose and snipe shooting; had made the acquaintance of a few of the Masai, and had looked with awe on our first hippo tracks in the mud beside a tiny ditchlike stream.
THE HIPPO POOL For a number of days we camped in a grove just above a dense jungle and not fifty paces from the bank of a deep and wide river.
It was at the hippo pool camp that we first became acquainted with Funny Face.
Heathcoat was elected member of parliament for Tiverton in 1832.
Lord Hippo simply turned and ran From this infuriated man.
If the King should return from Hippo before the time he named--woe betide us!
The great Bishop of Hippo interprets this Pauline text in no less than four different ways.
The Hippo was close at hand at four o'clock and, on nearing the shattered ice about the depot, we released the dogs and pulled the sledge ourselves.
Wild We started away on the main eastern journey with a spurt of eleven miles on a calm and cloudless day, intending to follow our former track over the shelf-ice to the Hippo Nunatak.
Next day, theHippo hove in sight and we found the depoted food in good condition.
We were two hundred yards from the shelter of the Hippo and were forced to turn back, since it was difficult to keep one's feet, while the sledges were blown sideways over the neve surface.
Later, Harrisson proposed to accompany me as far as the Hippo depot, bringing the dogs and providing a supporting party.
Passing glimpses were caught of the Hippo twenty-four miles distant.
The Hippo was twenty-two miles away, so deceptive is distance in these latitudes; and in one and a half days, over very heavy sastrugi, we were in its vicinity.
But at one time the story really did stop at the hippo chasing them on to an island and off it again, and opening and shutting its mouth at them.
It was under these exasperating conditions that I saw a hippofor the first time, and without doubt he is the ugliest and most forbidding looking brute I have ever beheld.
Here, on what was evidently an island during flood time, we found innumerable traces of both hippo and rhino--in fact the difficulty was to decide which track was the best and freshest.
Unfortunately, I possessed no heavy rifle, which is almost a necessity for hippo shooting, but it occurred to me to supply the deficiency by manufacturing a few cartridges for my smoothbore.
To my intense vexation and disappointment, just as I was in this helpless condition, half-way to the ground, the great hippo suddenly came out from his shelter and calmly lumbered along right underneath me.
The march was full of interest, however, for it was not long before we came upon fresh tracks both of hippo and rhino.
Several islands are dotted about in mid-stream and are overgrown with tall reeds and rushes, in which hippo find capital covert all the year round.
Then we heard the awe-inspiring roar of a hungry lion close by, and presently another hippo gave forth his tooting challenge a little way down the river.
At length I picked out a tree close to the river and commanding a stretch of sand which was all flattened down and looked as if at least one hippo rolled there regularly every night.
After Carthage and Utica--the Roman head-quarters were at Utica--Hippo was the largest and most important town in Northern Africa.
The Romans have fled fromHippo fewer by a third than when they first attacked it.
As most of their huts were covered with strings of drying meat and strips of hippo hide, they would appear to be expert hippopotamus hunters.
There were no more hippo and very little game: all our grain had long been exhausted, and but two pipefuls of sour tobacco remained.
It is curious how decidedly pink hippo and rhino look at a distance.
Another morning, taking an early stroll, I met an old cowhippo and a calf, wandering about far from the river.
Suddenly the hippo took alarm and rushed en masse for the narrow channel of the waterway.
About fifty hippo were lying about in the water, and on the banks.
I was on the point of firing, when a hippo put his head through the bridge at about ten yards, and regretfully I had to shoot him instead for his beef.
As Sharp had shot a brace of hippo in our pool, we had them dragged out on to the sandbank opposite, and built a grass screen at the lower end of the hippo tunnel which led down through the bush from the high ground above the river.
Suddenly with a mighty rush five hippo dashed down the bank, then, recovering from their alarm, strolled quietly by at five yards, the moonlight gleaming white on their wet backs.
St. Augustine and his people perished at Hippo towards 430, leaving society in appearance dull to new attraction.
Practically, however, amongst these the hippo and walrus tusks are the only ones of importance for large work, though boars' tusks come to the sale-rooms in considerable quantities from India and Africa.
That night our boys gorged themselves on hippo meat, and the next morning croton oil was at a premium.
A hippo when shot sinks immediately, but only takes about two hours to rise.
Schomburgk seized the opportunity to go off with Hodgson and the camera to try and get some hippo pictures, but only two of the creatures were visible, so he did not trouble.
Eight years, however, elapsed, from the evacuation of Hippo to the reduction of Carthage.
Many prodigies were omitted, or forgotten; and Hippo had been less favorably treated than the other cities of the province.
After the loss of a battle he retired intoHippo Regius; where he was immediately besieged by an enemy, who considered him as the real bulwark of Africa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hippo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: blimp; dinosaur; elephant; fatty; heavy; heavyweight; hippo; lump; mammoth; monster; tub; whale
