This might have been true, and as we could do nothing against the village anyway, we let the matter drop, especially as they had brought us Bourbaki's rifle and two tusked pigs.
The "Suque" is the community of all the men who have sacrificed tusked pigs.
Caste is obtained by sacrificing tusked pigs; it is possible that this has taken the place of former human sacrifices.
We shut Belni up in the hold of the cutter and told the natives that they would have to hand over Bourbaki's rifle and cartridges, and pay us two tusked pigs by noon of the next day.
He was planning to kill one hundred tusked pigs in the near future, which would raise him to the highest caste far and wide, but would also impoverish him for the rest of his life.
Later he works his way up in the society by attending numberless feasts and ceremonies, by having endless discussions on tusked pigs, by borrowing, buying and lending pigs, by plotting and sacrificing.
These mats are used, for example, to buy the valuabletusked pigs.
This is my arm,' cried the old hag, as she flew westward into the sky, changing her form into a tusked and hairy demon.
PAGE 86 long-tusked boar of the forest: The wild boar, the ancestor of our domestic pigs is still to be found in the great game preserves in European forests; in this country only in zooelogical gardens.
There is evidence that Merck's rhinoceros and the straight-tusked elephant lingered in western Europe during the whole period of the early development of the Mousterian industry.
Doubtless the Neanderthals migrated along these shores at a time when the hippopotamus, the straight-tusked elephant (E.
The woolly rhinoceros was the invariable companion of the mammoth, even as Merck's rhinoceros always associated itself with the straight-tusked elephant.
These hardy animals gradually replaced the African-Asiatic pair, Merck's rhinoceros and the straight-tusked elephant.
The Pre-Chellean workers first established themselves here at the time when the Somme was visited by the straight-tusked elephant and other primitive mammals of the warm African-Asiatic fauna.
Here lingered the straight-tusked elephant and Merck's rhinoceros, contemporary with the workers of the Acheulean flints.
He was a huge creature--wrinkled and yellow-tusked and scarred from the wounds of a thousand fights.
The old bull that led the herd, seventy years of age and at the pride of his wisdom and strength, scarred, yellow-tusked and noble past any elephant patriarch in the jungle, curled up his trunk when he saw him come.
He that cheerfully leads such a life in the forest, with large-tusked elephants for companions, with no human being by his side, and contented with the produce of the wilderness, is said to act after the manner of the wise.
Yonder a walrus pops a monster tusked head and goggle eyes out of the water, looking at the ship as fiercely as an angry bull.
But for a beginning of sacrifice he cast bristles from the head of the white-tusked boar upon the fire, and prayed to all the gods that wise Odysseus might return to his own house.
Then he went to lay him down even where the white-tusked boars were sleeping, beneath the hollow of the rock, in a place of shelter from the North Wind.
The name of the Portuguese captain whom Kensley had in his dream seen slain by the single-tusked elephant, more than two hundred years agone, was Manoel Barreto too.
Many white-tusked swine also, abounding in fat, were extended for roasting in the flame of Vulcan; and on every side around the dead body flowed abundant blood.
Lean and wrinkled and yellow-tusked though he was, he looked what the Jungle knew him to be--their master.
Withdrawing then their weapons, each on each They fell, like lions fierce, or tusked boars, In strength the mightiest of the forest beasts.
He saw that they were dotted and spotted with groups of great black, horned and tusked beasts like the one whose destruction he had just witnessed.
Then into the circle of light swam the masks of giant alligators and strange, tusked caymans.
The Narwhale I have heard called theTusked whale, the Horned whale, and the Unicorn whale.
It has a sort of howdah on its back, and its distended tusked mouth into which the billows are rolling, might be taken for the Traitors' Gate leading from the Thames by water into the Tower.
No; as I have said, it was only a big-tusked one they cared for.
The three formed into line and stood still for a minute, the one-tusked bull gently caressing the elephant on the left with his trunk.
They stood thus:--Immediately opposite and facing me was the wounded one-tusked bull.
It was a dinner worth eating, too, I can tell you, for we dined off the heart of the great one-tusked bull, which was so big that the man whom I sent inside the elephant to look for his heart was forced to remove it in two pieces.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tusked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
