I watched them passing up the road, Mr. Tusker limping behind his barrow and this peculiar old sack of his limping behind Mr. Tusker.
Mr. Tusker accordingly repaired to the roadway, where his barrow was in waiting.
The impression it suggested to me was that Mr. Tusker had been subjected to long, long years of solitary confinement in an over-heated chicken-coop.
He was soon left far behind, while the tuskercharged onward.
We afterwards learned that it had been fired over the head of a big tusker elephant that stood under a tree not many yards from the man who fired.
Fortunately the jungle helped the mahowt by hiding the tusker from view.
Here the grey tusker takes up his abode with his harem.
Long may Indian sportsmen find plenty of 'foemen worthy of their steel' in the old grey boar, the fighting tusker of Bengal.
As a king deserts his borders, by the enemy pursued, Like the tuskerin the forest, go thy way in solitude.
Better is the lonely life, for fools companions cannot be; Live alone and do no evil, live alone with scanty needs, Lonely, as the mighty tusker in the forest lonely feeds.
Take delight in earnestness; watch thy thoughts and never tire; Lift thee from the Path of Evil, like the tusker sunk in mire.
Kurus, and in panic broke and fled, Steed and tusker turned from battle, soldiers fell among the dead!
Like a tusker in his fury, like a lion in his ire, Like the sun in noontide radiance, like the all-consuming fire!
Still the princes shook their weapons, drove the deep resounding car, Or on steed or tusker mounted waged the glorious mimic war!
As a lordly tusker tramples on a marsh of feeble reeds, As a forest conflagration on the parchéd woodland feeds, Bhishma rides upon my warriors in his mighty battle-car, God nor mortal chief can face him in the gory field of war!
An elephant's eyesight is none too good; but the greattusker evidently had harbored suspicions of this yellow-bearded white man from the first.
Upon these occasions she usually confined her endeavors to the smaller animals though sometimes she brought down a deer, and once even Horta, the boar--a great tusker that even Sheeta might have thought twice before attacking.
At the same instant the head of a hugetusker poked through the trees that fringed the clearing.
Soon "Moro's" deep voice told he had the tusker at bay, down in the defile, far below.
A fighting tusker can lord it over almost any number of tuskless elephants, because he can pierce their vitals, and they cannot pierce his.
The trick of it all is that a man never knows what the tusker will do.
The tuskerhalted at the border of their little clearing.
A trampled place in the jungle--tusker at bay---a mounted sticker on each side waiting for the move.
Nels on his feet was bent to the task--the tusker sprawling, the piggy haunches settling flat.
Nels' smashing drive at the throat had carried the tusker from under the Arab's feet.
The tusker was bone-still, with that cocked look which means anything but flight.
One morning Jhansi was out in charge of her mahout about two miles from Santrabari, when a single-tusker rogue suddenly charged out of the jungle at her.
He told me that they had come across a large tusker elephant; and instead of shepherding it gently towards the guns, a number of foolish young sepoys, armed only with sticks, had rushed boldly at it with wild yells.
If you can tell me the approximate height of this elephant and if a single or double tusker and any distinguishing peculiarities, I will write to the deputy commissioner and get it proclaimed.
A tusker elephant suddenly appeared on the metals.
And one morning we passed a patch of cultivation in the jungle and a peasant who told us that at daybreak he had found a lame single-tusker elephant feeding on his crops.
A double tusker killed one of our sawyers near here and was proclaimed and a reward of fifty rupees and the tusks offered.
Turning, he saw to his horror a large tusker elephant descending the steep bank and coming straight towards them.
About sixty yards ahead a large tusker was standing apparently half asleep under the trees, its right side towards us.
Securely chained to a tree at a distance from the other animals was a large tusker which, while the Maharajah had been having a beat for tiger a few weeks before, had suddenly gone mad and attacked the other elephants.
I could have finished off the tusker at my ease as he lay on the ground, had it not been for my loyal obedience to the regulations.
Within two hours the hounds were closing in on Tusker whose way to comparative safety lay over a large expanse of forest that was more or less open.
Quick as thought, without word of parley Tusker rushed out and sought the impenetrable covers that had helped him before.
As he grew up, sleeping under the sun and feeding under the stars, finding food plentiful and life pleasant, Tusker gradually ceased to be little.
Tusker felt the full joy of life too in November, when he had fought with several brother boars for the sake of a sow who summed up for him all his understanding of grace and beauty.
He shambled off into the darkness, leaving Tusker full of terror, so fearful indeed that he would not go back to his old home, but wandered for some hours in the darkest part of the forest.
With consciousness of strength came the desire to travel, and when Tusker found any track that moved him to curiosity, he would leave the herd to follow it.
And while he used his legs Tusker used his brain as well.
When the season of love and war had passed Tusker left his companion to raise her litter and shift for herself; while, all his love forgotten, he resumed his solitary life and his accustomed nervousness.
Suddenly there was a shrill whistle, and before it ceased to echo, the pack opened to the right and left, leaving Tusker alone.
On his nightly rambles littleTusker often met the porcupine who also fed after dark, and was quite harmless in spite of his formidable bristles.
Then the Hunter cast back, guessing shrewdly that Tusker had doubled on his own line; but the ground gave him no help, and the luncheon hour found the party still perplexed.
Young Tusker learned to know how and when the weather would change.
Tusker avoided farm and village but he could not leave the crops alone, and for the chance of a meal of young maize he was content to go where no other food would have taken him.
When Tusker heard the pack bearing down upon him, he realised that the Hunter was his master, and that only good luck could save him now.
One can fancy that the great old wrinkled tusker that led the herd peered at him now and then out of his little red eyes and wondered.
Any other wild tusker would have charged in furious wrath, and there would have been a quick and certain death beneath his great knees.
I want to take you where the great tusker elephants are," he said, "and let you shoot the giraffe and rhinoceros.
And one day Boyle had said that an elephant had two tuskers instead of two tusks and that was why he was called Tusker Boyle but some fellows called him Lady Boyle because he was always at his nails, paring them.
He paused for a moment and then said mysteriously: --They were caught with Simon Moonan and Tusker Boyle in the square one night.
I wouldn't like to be Simon Moonan and Tusker Cecil Thunder said.
Simon Moonan and Tusker are going to be flogged, Athy said, and the fellows in the higher line got their choice of flogging or being expelled.
Silently they waited and presently were rewarded by the sight of a mighty tusker carrying an amount of ivory in his long tusks that set their greedy hearts to palpitating.
The trumpeting of a mad tusker rose shrill above the cries of the anthropoids, as Tantor, the elephant, dashed swiftly across the clearing to the aid of his friend.
The tusker turned and moved slowly off along a broad, tree-arched trail, pausing occasionally to pluck a tender branch, or strip the edible bark from an adjacent tree.
At Boki a grand old tusker came sailing by the camp, and after a stern chase and much expenditure of powder, condescended to strike his colours.
This was the tusker Lord Mayo, who, although a good-tempered harmless creature, appeared to be utterly devoid of nerves, and would take fright at anything to which it was unaccustomed.
I was riding the large tusker Thompson, who became much agitated as a succession of wild pigs rushed forward upon several occasions, and one lot took to water, swimming across a channel upon my left.
The only really dependable elephant that I have ever ridden was a tusker belonging to the Commissariat at Jubbulpur in 1880; this fine male was named Moolah Bux.
I had an excellent hood arranged for a large tusker which was lent to me by the Commissariat.
This was a tusker that had been lent to me by the Government upon two occasions, and he was so good-tempered, and active in making his way over bad ground in steep forests, that I determined to try him as a shooting elephant.
It is rarely we discover a dead elephant that has not met with a violent death, and only once in my life have I by accident found the remains of a tusker with the large tusks intact.
Little Toomai looked back, and behind him a great wild tusker with his little pig's eyes glowing like hot coals, was just lifting himself out of the misty river.
I have heard of a tusker at Hyderabad that is over eleven feet, but we must hold this open to doubt till an accurate measurement, for which I have applied, is received.
For on the farther side of the house a huge tusker elephant in the garden stood over a little European boy about four years old, who was sprawling almost under the huge feet.
Then the tuskerrose and moved swiftly after the herd.
Every time the long trunk of Sully's big tusker was raised in the air, Teddy thought it was being aimed at his head and shrank closer to Emperor's back.
The tusker on one occasion ran mad (as they will do now and then) and killed one of his keepers.
Little Toomai looked back, and behind him a great wild tusker with his little pig's eyes glowing like hot coals was just lifting himself out of the misty river.
For these various reasons they resolved to remain quiet in the tree, and patiently await the termination of that curious "ring performance," which the old tusker still continued to keep up.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tusker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boar; gilt; hog; pig; piglet; sow; swine
