The head of Demetrius, who first conquered territory in India, and that of some of his descendants, is covered by a helmet adorned with the tusks and trunk of an elephant.
There the brute lay on his back, tusks upright under the stern; then with a quick flop he dived.
Tilesius, thousands of fossiltusks have been collected and used in turning.
Male quadrupeds which are furnished with tusks use them in various ways, as in the case of horns.
But how on this view can we explain the presence of horns in the females of certain antelopes, and of tusks in the females of many animals, which are only of slightly less size than in the males?
European boar in the prime of life, whilst the upper tusks are so long and have their points so much curled inwards, sometimes even touching the forehead, that they are utterly useless as weapons of attack.
The tusks of the elephant, in the different species or races, differ according to sex, in nearly the same manner as the horns of ruminants.
Potamochoerus penicillatus, tusks and facial knobs of the, ii.
On the occasional absence of the tusks in the female, see Mr. R.
Although tusks and horns appear in all cases to have been primarily developed as sexual weapons, they often serve for other purposes.
In the females of the walrus the tusks are sometimes quite absent.
It seemed to be as large as the head of a small elephant, and its ivory tusks were not less than two feet long.
The sea was churned into foam around them as they rolled, reared, spurned, and drove their tusks into each other's skulls and shoulders.
Professor Owen writes: "The tusks of the extinct Elephas primigenius, or mammoth, have a bolder and more extensive curvature than those of the Elephas Indicus.
The numerous fossil tusks of the mammoth which have been discovered and recorded may be ranged under two averages of size, the larger ones at nine feet and a half, the smaller at five feet and a half in length.
Mammoth tusks are collected in Siberia as an article of commerce.
Of the tusksassigned to the male mammoth, one from the newer tertiary deposits in Essex measured nine feet ten inches in length, and two feet five inches in circumference at its thickest part.
It appeared as if the next instant the creature's tusks would have run into him, when he seized the branch of a free and threw himself up upon it, while the animal ripped off the hem of his broad trousers.
I was creeping up to him, when he opened his wicked eyes, and if I hadn't taken to my heels he would have had his tusks through and through me.
But the three tusks must be given to Yanoka, my first wife.
Had he not paid seventusks of good ivory to have the object of his passion placed under the most terrible tabu?
MYalu, stung by the recollection of the loss of many tusks to the invader, incontinently abandoned Yabolo and pressed for a frontal attack.
Already MYalu had offered four tusks of ivory and three oxen for her.
The wise father examines the grain of the tusks before he sells his daughter.
Two tusks will I give thee,” he whispered, “if thou wilt do this thing.
The three tusks had been paid and the footprint obtained; but he had discovered that it was no easy matter to procure the other ingredients which he suspected the wizard had known well and intended as a means to extract more ivory.
The tusks are thine,” said MYalu reluctantly, “if thou wilt tell me how thou wilt procure them.
Send the four tusks as we have agreed and so shall it be.
When at length MYalu reproachfully reminded him of the seven tusks which he had paid apparently to secure his love’s terrible fate, Marufa replied uninterestedly: “I have done that for which thou hast paid.
These tusks are so powerful that a hippopotamus has been known to cut holes through the iron plates of a Nile steamer with one blow.
It has an enormous mouth, armed with four great tusks that appear viciously prominent beneath its great leathern lips.
And the Diskos did spin and roar, and made a strange light upon the faces of the men, and they to have tusks like to the tusks of pigs.
Of huge stature, with rent cheeks, having signs of the lotus on his body, and with broad frontal globes, the animal had long tusks and a voice deep as that of the clouds.
Thunder and lightning in his bended tusks “The fierce boar carries; rapid is the force “The tawny lion, (hated race!
The sea became literally alive with them, and we soon became the centre of a herd of at least four hundred walrus, their grizzly heads bobbing up all round us--the long, white tusks gleaming conspicuously against their dark breasts.
Roaring hoarsely, until his fat body swelled with exertion and rage, he plunged his tusks into the interloper's face, and forced him to retire.
Eighty tusks were the result of our trip, together with a splendid moving picture of those strange animals.
After killing it, she had bitten off the head; and, holding the body between her forefeet, she had peeled off the skin with her tusks and teeth as adroitly as a fishmonger would have skinned an eel!
But, whether beast of prey or not, its long mouth, with two white tusks protruding over the jaws, gave it a very formidable appearance.
Thou, Leontodame, surroundest the glades of Gaul and huntest the marshes of Germany, tracking out any huge boar, his tusks flexed with age, that may have taken shelter among the sedges that flank the Rhine.
Make them all of stiff cardboard and larger if possible than the diagram; then with pen and ink draw the ears, eyes, and tusks (Fig.
Make believe that hundreds of elephant tusks have been sent to you from distant regions to supply enough ivory for the work, and that you have an abundance of gold, precious stones and ebony.
It is reported that in this region there are some ruined houses in which mammoth tusks had been used in the construction, but nothing definite could be learned as to the location of these houses and the whole may be but a story.
One form of the double-bitted, multiple-grooved stone axes resembles closely ivory forms made from walrus tusks in the Bering Sea region.
Deep and bloodily his curved tusks slashed--as the wolf and the collie alone can slash.
Bearing down with all his weight and setting his white little front teeth and his yellowing tusks firmly in their hold, Lad gradually shoved Knave's head sideways to the ground and held it there.
The tusks we took from those we killed and those we had bartered for, always lay on the after grating, which covered the well down which the auxiliary propeller went; there was never enough motion to roll them off.
I amused myself polishing little tusks which I had taken out of the female narwhals' heads.
I often saw narwhals raise their tusks out of the water, and when black whales were taking a final header, on starting for a long dive, they generally threw the tail up in the air in a graceful manner.
The undeveloped tusks of the latter were hollow like cigarette holders.
As in the case of rodents, malformations of whose incisors I have alluded to some time back, the tusks of elephants assume various freaks.
That tusks of such magnitude are not found nowadays is probably due to the fact that the elephant has more enemies, the most formidable of all being man, which prevent his reaching the great age of those of the fossil periods.
There is a head in the Indian Museum, of which the tusks outside the socket measure 9-3/4 feet, and are of very curious formation.
The incisor tusks in the bent-down upper jaw are longer in the male, and sometimes project beyond the thick fleshy lips, but in the female they are small.
The forehead recedes, and the trunk is more coarsely ringed; the tusks are larger, some almost reaching the size of those mentioned above in the fossil head at the museum.
The median pair lower are usually lost or absorbed by advancing age, having no functions, and the incisive tusks themselves are subject to very rapid wear, being often worn down before the animal has reached middle age.
The heads and tusks of these animals were so abundant in Siberia that they long supplied all Russia with ivory, besides contributing no small amount for export to other countries.
Occasionally his tusks were more than twelve feet long, and curved upward in a circle.
The boy wondered what Father Bear had hit upon, but no opportunity was afforded him to ask, as the bear took him between his tusks again and lumbered down the hill.
Father Bear carefully took the boy between his tusks and climbed up from the pit.
The short, thick neck and projecting tusks would entirely prevent it from reaching any of the vegetation upon which it feeds.
He was laboring painfully with a heavy beam of timber, which he had balanced across his tusks and was carrying to the village from which I had come.
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