His drawings on bone or tusk found in the caves show no mean artistic power, as appears by the three specimens copied in the Plate.
And charging with sheer tusk he drove, and smote Hyleus; and sharp death caught his sudden soul, And violent sleep shed night upon his eyes.
About one-third of an elephant's tusk is embedded in its jaw, and this part being filled up with muscles and nerves is hollow, and has to be cleaned out before it is inserted in the waggon.
A tooth, as a tusk is called by elephant hunters, weighs about ten per cent, heavier when it is first taken from an elephant's jaw, than when it becomes dry from keeping.
His boys went back and told his friends in camp that both he and the elephant were killed, the elephant having put his tusk through his cheek.
The elephant had a tusk so long as my body, and so thick as my leg, how can he put it through my cheek?
One-Tusk moved silently, prod-prodding; we could hear the click of ivory and the bunting of shoulder against shoulder.
There was a curled moon high up in the air like a feather, and a moon-white tusk glinting here and there, where the herds drifted across the flats.
He would come sidling up to a refractory young cow with his eyes twinkling, and before anybody suspected he could give such a prod with his one tusk as sent her squealing.
And from the time they were able to run under their mother's bodies, One-Tusk and I kept watch and watch to see that they did not break back to the Squidgy Islands.
We were coming up from the river to the bedding-ground and there was a thin rim of the moon like a tusk over the hill's shoulder.
He was one of our bachelor herd who had lost a tusk in his first fight, which turned out greatly to his advantage.
The cruel tusk of a rough, remorseless winter still yearly slays the "lovely Adonis" and drives him down to the Shades.
To him it seemed as if the space of a day had passed ere he reached the bottom, and in his passing he encountered many dread dangers from tusk and horn of a myriad evil creatures of the water who sought to destroy him.
Note: Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the substance constituting the tusks of the elephant, but also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc.
And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin.
Defn: The tusk of an animal, by which the prey is seized and held or torn; a long pointed tooth; esp.
One-eye says it never paid to carry a tusk weighing less than sixty pounds.
Let us send one little tip of a female tusk to the Kaiser for a souvenir--female in proof it is all illegitimate, illegal, outlawed!
But the jaw was somewhat isolated, and the nearest fossil object was the tusk of an elephant six yards distant, though on a horizontal plane.
The fossil skull from the cavern of Engis was deposited at a depth of about five feet, under an osseous breccia containing a tusk of the rhinoceros, the teeth of the horse, and the remains of small animals.
There was no stalagmite overlying the mud or loam in which the skeleton was found, and no other bones met with save the tusk of a bear.
So she knelt down to wash his feet, but Odysseus turned himself as much as he could from the fire, for he feared that she might see the mark of the wound which the boar's tusk had made long ago when he went to Parnassus.
My Cumberland, That ne'er knew grief before, To be so gored, to feel so deep The tusk of that sea-boar!
By the way, Dick, did that man Bargle ever give you the big tusk he said he had found?
He slowly drew out of his pocket a great piece of dark-yellow ivory, evidently the point, and about a foot in length, of the tusk of some animal, probably an elephant.
Whenever the ivory-tusk hunter sees the end of a tusk sticking out of the river bank, he is soon able to remove it from its resting place with pick and shovel.
In the male the right tooth remains rudimentary, while the left is developed into an enormous cylindrical tusk marked by a spiral groove.
Incisor or tusk of elephant, with pulp-cavity persistently open at base.
In a grave in North Varanger some fragments were found, probably of walrus-tusk [cf.
It will be seen that everything we learn from this find agrees in a remarkable way with the statements of Ottar, with the single exception that there are no indications of walrus-hunting, beyond the one piece of tusk mentioned.
There was also narwhale, thetusk or spear of which was even more valuable than walrus tusks.
As they are spoken of as something remarkable, the pieces, with wedges of tusk and bone, cannot have been due to Norsemen, either in Greenland or Iceland.
So feared Von Bloom; and he would gladly have given for a number of dogs an elephant's tusk a-piece--even though they were the most worthless of curs.
Of course a two hundred pound tusk is one of the very largest, and far above the average even of African elephants.
A narwhal's tusk was discovered by Mr. King near Cromer, and the remains of a walrus.
Lartet was found the tusk of a young Ursus spelaeus, the crown of which had been stripped of its enamel, and which had been carved perhaps in imitation of the head of a bird.
The stratum is said to have been intact and undisturbed, but the human jaw was isolated, the nearest tusk of an elephant being six yards removed from it in horizontal distance.
Bald has recorded the circumstances under which a single elephant's tusk was found in the unstratified drift of the valley of the Forth, with the minuteness which such a discovery from its rarity well deserved.
I crossed that enormous tusk that had been the end of Perdóndaris and met the artists carving it as I went; and some by way of greeting as I passed extolled Singanee, and in answer I gave honour to his name.
On the opposite cliff by the palace lay the thickest end of the tusk and I came down a ladder which leaned against the tusk for they had not yet carved steps.
Each tusk must be worth, at an average, some fifteen pounds at the coast.
He pulled out his knife and ripped off the covering of the tusk Charlie had been pulling at.
Each tusk had held one, and two or three yet retained the wooden plugs, which had to be dug out, so firmly were they fastened.
To the startled imaginations of the two boys it seemed that the tremendous brute towered far above them; in reality, he was over thirteen feet tall, but his immense tusk and huge flapping ears increased his terrific aspect two-fold.
Dave was dragged over the pit floor, his clothing firmly held by the spike-like tuskof the boar.
Its tusk penetrated a double thickness of his clothing.
The knives they used were made of the tusk of the walrus, cut or ground sufficiently thin for the purpose, and retaining the original curve of the tusk.
The sea-unicorn is, when full grown, from thirteen to sixteen feet long, and has a long spiral horn or tuskgrowing rather on one side of its upper jaw, of from eight to ten feet in length.
At the next second Jack saw a gleaming white tusk dart down towards him as the "rogue" bent his head and struck.
The people of Mahommed Wat-el-Mek were in a similar dilemma; not a tusk could be delivered at Gondokoro.
Ivory is daily brought into camp in exchange for cattle, a tusk for a cow, according to size--a profitable business, as the cows have cost nothing.
In the event of war, not a tusk would be obtained, as the ivory in possession of the natives was never stored in their huts, but was concealed in the earth.
This will convey an idea of the enormous size of the head, and of the strength of bone and cartilage required to hold in position so great a weight, and to resist the strain when the tusk is used as a lever to uproot trees.
But behold, I will likewise show you a most manifest token, that ye may know me well and be certified in heart, even the wound that the boar dealt me with his white tusk long ago, when I went to Parnassus with the sons of Autolycus.
Scaphopoda, Tusk shells--mollusks that possess a long tubular shell open at both ends; with their small and elongated foot they are supposed to dig into the mud in which they live.
The animal has a dreadful weapon of defense in the powerful hind claw, which it can use like the tusk of a boar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tusk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
