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Example sentences for "wild elephants"

  • But the planter fears nothing except wild elephants; and not them if he is on horseback and a good road.

  • Tigers, wild elephants, and the rhinoceros, are said to be found here; but we saw none.

  • Wild elephants could he reclaim, And mettled steeds could mount and tame.

  • Then, with their consorts gathered near, Wild elephants in sudden fear Rushed to a distant wood, and shed An odour round them as they fled.

  • As through the woods its way pursued That mighty bannered multitude, Wild elephants in terror fled With all the startled herds they led, And bears and deer were seen on hill, In forest glade, by every rill.

  • This surprised him, as it was altogether contrary to the custom of wild elephants.

  • I'd rather people thought that the dacoits, or whoever those men were who attacked us, accidentally fell foul of a herd of wild elephants.

  • Of all the swarming herds of wild elephants in the Terai, the Mysore, or the Ceylon jungles no man, white or black, has ever seen one that had died a natural death.

  • To find his presence accepted by this vast gathering of wild elephants, animals which are usually extremely shy of human beings, was in itself extraordinary.

  • The herd of wild elephants, more than twenty in number, left the river and came towards the beast which bore the howdah and Jack.

  • Monkeys chattered in the trees over their heads, panthers and deer came down to the stream to drink, tigers roared in sullen fashion in the jungle, and once, a troop of wild elephants crossed a ford before them in stately line.

  • His father had told him many times how that a big, savage male will often leave a herd of wild elephants, take up a solitary life in the jungle, and become a "rogue.

  • Wild elephants," said the Political Officer briefly and pointed to a patch of dust in which was the round imprint of a huge foot.

  • Deep in its recesses the rhinoceros, bison and buffalo hide, herds of wild elephants roam, tigers prey on the countless deer, and the great mountain bears descend to prowl in it for food.

  • In the afternoon a distant crashing, which told of trees falling before the pressure of great heads and the weight of huge bodies, made Wargrave ask: "Wild elephants, sir?


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