The snow was falling heavily again, and one of the Indians, Henry, looking up with squinted eyes, said, "There'll be nothing left of that walrus-tusk.

A fair Adonis done to death Beneath the wild boar's cruel tusk.

In Homer's description of the wound which Ulysses, when young, received in his thigh from the tusk of an enraged wild boar, the infusion of blood was stopped by divine incantations and divine songs, and some sort of bandage which must have acted by pressure.

As Adonis was mortally wounded by a boar's tusk, so (it is here represented) was Adonais slain by an insidiously or murderously launched dart: see p. 49.

Seeing this, Bruce clung to the cake until the tusk slipped off.

The tusks had been so ingeniously cut and fitted that only the grain of the glistening surface told where one tusk joined another.

The clumsy great father Sea-elephants fight terrible battles; and at this time always seem to be in a very bad temper, tearing each other with their tusk-like teeth.

They were men of the jungle, creatures of tusk and claw and loin.

When I wanted money, I just took an ivory tusk to sell in London.

Koogah's head dropped to his work again, and on the ivory tusk between his knees he scratched the dorsal fin of a fish the like of which never swam in the sea.

Koogah dropped his walrus tusk and went also, leaning heavily upon his staff, and after him loitered the men in twos and threes.

The first is addressed to the sun-god Tammuz, the husband of Istar, slain by the boar's tusk of winter, and sought by the goddess in the underground world.

But there was another: the hunter had picked up the splinters of bone at the camp where he had fired at the Bear, and, after long doubt, he guessed that he had broken a tusk.

An artist would spend his entire life covering a tusk of an elephant with carvings of marvelous delicacy and skill; and even to-day the ivory carvers of Delhi produce wonderful results and sell them at prices that are absurdly small, considering the labor they represent.

Somehow Mike's pinchers kept jumpin' the track and at every slip a new wrinkle showed in the patient's facepatient is the right word, all rightand we didn't make no more show at loosenin' that tusk than as if we'd tried to pull up Mount Bill Williams with a silk thread.

In a minute out he came with a little round lookin'-glass and a piece of buckskin, and the last we seen of him he was hikin' down the street, grinnin' into that mirror as happy as a child and polishin' that tusk like it had started to rust.

He would have got on finely with Gurth the swineherd and Burgundy the tusk-toothed, and one of his masterly witticisms would have upset Duns Scotus.

SEE The saber tusk walrus.

THE SABER TUSK WALRUS, by Elliott Whitney; illustrator: Garret Price.

The saber tusk walrus.

SEE The saber tusk walrus.

THE SABER TUSK WALRUS, by Elliott Whitney; illustrator: Garret Price.

The saber tusk walrus.

SEE The saber tusk walrus.

Look a little farther on, as the canvas unrolls, and you will observe the white tusk of a rhinoceros protruding from the jungle with wonderful effect.