III "Beware of the trumpeting swine," Came the howl from the northward that night.
From the parrots translating the cry, And the apes in the trees came the whine: "Beware of the trumpeting swine.
Trumpeting mammoths warning us still If we held not beside them it boded us ill.
And he essayed the trumpeting bark wherewith he always welcomed her return after an absence.
He would still dash out of the house as of old--with the wild trumpetingbark which he reserved as greeting to his two deities alone--when the Mistress or the Master returned home after an absence.
He broke it with a series of thunderously trumpeting barks that quite put to shame the puny noise-making efforts of every other dog in the show.
A booming, trumpetingbark of warning sprang into Lad's throat--and died there.
They halted in the east; the leader advanced towards the central fire, lighted one of his fagots, and trumpeting loudly threw it to the east over the fence of the corral.
At each application of the blaze the loud trumpeting was heard, and it often seemed as if a great flock of cranes was winging its way overhead southward through the darkness.
Beyond the knoll was the gleam of water, and at the same time they heard the familiar trumpeting of the mosquito hosts, whose attentions they had been free from ever since they left the river.
Some of our men, who had followed the runaway horses, shortly returned and reported that during our fight with the bull they had heard other elephants trumpeting in the dense nabbuk jungle near the river.
Checked in her rush, she backed toward the dense jungle, throwing her trunk about and trumpeting with rage.
We were speculating upon the direction of the wind, when we were surprised by the sudden trumpeting of an elephant, that proceeded from the forest already declared to be the covert of the herd.
For about two hours we travelled upon the circuitous tracks of the elephants to no purpose, when we suddenly were startled by the shrill trumpeting of one of these animals in the thick thorns, a few hundred yards to our left.
The elephant had halted, trumpeting and shrieking louder than ever, when some of the natives again darted their spears at him, while Solon assailed him with his barking in front.
We turned, therefore, back to the foot of the mountains on our left, when the loud trumpeting or roaring of elephants brought us to a halt.
Presently there was a loudtrumpeting and roar, I may call it, not of fear, but of rage, though it was sufficient to inspire fear.
Raising his trunk, andtrumpeting with rage, on came the elephant.
Sometimes one of the larger male elephants would leave the crowd, and go round trumpeting with fury, trying to get through here and there at some spot not before examined, but with the same result.
Judge Clemens haled both men into his court, fined them, and collected his fee.
On one particular night in 1873 which I shall never forget, the splashing and trumpeting of troop after troop of hot and thirsty elephants was kept up from soon after dark till long past midnight.
The wise elephant turned the pile over and laid out the eleven cakes in a row, trumpeting loudly when the master came by; so that mahout was beaten with shoes.
For he heard a flusteration with the bastes of all creation, The trumpeting of elephants and the bellowing of whales.
While he was speaking to them the elephant suddenly wheeled round and, trumpeting loudly, tried to force his way back.
It had been trumpetingloudly and showing signs of impatience and anger.
Hannibal now launched against their ranks the elephants attached to the infantry, which, covered in steel armour and trumpeting loudly, carried death and confusion into the Roman ranks.
The elephants in their excitement weretrumpeting loudly; the horses stamped the ground; the draught cattle, terrified by the din, strove to break away.
Then the Mammoths came thundering and trumpeting across the plateau, going through and over the lesser beasts like a tidal wave.
Without pausing in his huge stride he reached down his trunk, whipped it about the waist of Bawr, and swung him aloft, crushing in his ribs with the terrific pressure, and carried him along high in the air above the trumpeting ranks.
And the screaming, trumpeting monsters, hardly aware that there had been an obstacle in their path, arrived at the edge of the canal.
The trumpeting leaders were overborne in a twinkling.
With a trumpeting bray of indignation the monster sat upright on hind-quarters far more ponderous than those of a mammoth.
It was badly routed in the more open plain, yet here in these fastnesses none will dare venture--not even the Amabuna--until the trumpeting of the Elephant shall scatter the traitors and rebels once more.
He had a qualm of nausea at the slimy images of corruption and decay which the minister was trumpeting forth as the end to all earthly pride.
At frequent intervals they could hear cries of wild animals, including the trumpeting of elephants and the mournful groan of hyenas.
Kicking and trumpeting horribly, the elephant vainly tried to get to its feet.
It was a loud trumpeting that seemed to come from but a short distance away.
At the approach of autumn the cranes of northern Europe collect about rivers and lakes, and after much trumpeting set out in enormous bands on their southward journey to the tropical regions of Africa and India.
And, more insistent than any of these, the bellowing of the sacred cattle from India, and the belling and bleating of strange deer, not to mention the cavernous trumpeting of elephants when their keepers prodded them into obedience.
They had worked for a whole week, but without success, when one evening a loud and awful trumpeting told them that elephants had arrived on the plains below, or were passing through the country of the cannibals for pastures new.
He staggered to his feet now, and, stumbling and trumpeting as he went, made directly back to the herd.
While the ribs were still heard cracking under the weight of the elephant, the roar of the human multitude mingled fearfully with the victorious trumpeting of the vengeful monster.
Although the visitation was unheralded by the customary flourish oftrumpeting on dits, it was extremely successful.
Thereupon, the column returned to India, bands playing, elephants trumpeting a salute, and guns thundering a welcome.
This is a variation on His Majesty's usual tiger hunt," Nadir Sharif shouted through the dust, above the din of bellowing buffalo and trumpeting elephants.
Ahead he heard the sound of elephants trumpeting and he felt his way forward through the semi-darkness, the ground a mosaic of flickering shadows from the still-burning camp light.
So all that night he chased through the undergrowth, blowing and trumpeting and shaking his ears.
Up went the tail and trunk of one of the leading bulls at the report of the shot, and trumpeting shrilly, he ran first to one side, then to the other, with his ears cocked and sharply turning his head to either side.
The ungainly pachyderm was standing on its hind legs, trumpeting through its upraised trunk a protest against the prodding of the sharp goad which was forcing it to walk backward in that absurd position.
On went the creatures trumpeting with rage, and disappointed at not finding us.
The elephant then, taking my uncle's cap which had fallen off, trampled it under foot, going round and round the tree and trumpeting loudly.
Presently there was more loud trumpeting and directly afterwards two shots were fired in rapid succession.
We could hear the trumpeting of the others grow less distinct as they made their way through the forest, either influenced by fear or excited by rage, fancying they were still following us up.
Once more the trumpeting burst forth, the sounds echoing through the forest.
Before the smoke--which was kept from rising by the branches--had cleared away, a loudtrumpeting was heard.
The rest of the herd, alarmed by the fate of their leaders, turned round, and with loud trumpeting rushed away into the forest.
Away it went, trumpetingloudly and crashing through the underwood.
Scarcely had we secured ourselves when the elephants came up with their trunks sticking out and trumpeting as loudly as before.
He now saw us clearly enough, and not liking our appearance, I suppose, lifted up his trunk and began trumpeting loudly.
It was moving slowly, though trumpetingwith pain and rage.
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