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Example sentences for "wild boar"

  • He loved that savage country, he delighted in it; in the deep gorges of its mountains he pursued the large wolves and the wild boar, and in it he established the custom of relays of dogs the whole length of the woods.

  • The nude bestiarius has just pierced a wolf through and through, and the animal is in flight with the spear sticking in his body, but the man staggers and a wild boar is rushing at him.

  • To provide himself with meat, he occasionally starts off into the forest with dogs and seldom returns without a deer or a wild boar.

  • When a man of one of these tribes has secured a good catch of fish, or has trapped a wild boar, he procures a supply of beverage and meets his guests at the appointed place, usually his little farmhouse.

  • And as they came near, behold, a wild boar of a pure white color rose up from the bush.

  • He will become a wild boar or a fierce tiger, a scaly dragon or lion with yellow mane.

  • That the yellow hunter should kill a wild boar, capture a runaway slave, and afterwards shield both his captive and himself from a brace of bloodhounds, by killing the fierce brutes, was no affair of his.

  • The young Englishman, never having seen a wild boar in its native haunts, put the question conjecturally; but a moment's observation of the animal convinced him that his conjecture was correct.

  • My man has instructions, if you should offer him a portion of wild boar or venison or sesame cake to bring me in lieu of my dinner, to refuse it.

  • Head of Wild Boar, and of "Golden Days," a pig of the Yorkshire Large Breed; the latter from a photograph.

  • Don't you want to try to catch a glimpse of a wild boar?

  • Here the brown earth was usually furrowed by the black snouts of wild boar, for mast lay thick here in autumn and tender roots invited investigation.

  • It is called "the father of good fortune," and strangely enough, it is a lucky omen to meet a wild boar on issuing from one's tent.

  • Let thy morning be with a jackal, And thy evening with a wild boar.

  • On the other hand they become emboldened, and take courage if, on setting out, they are greeted by one of those encounters which are reputed fortunate—with a jackal in the morning for instance, or with a wild boar in the evening.

  • A part of the legend accompanying these mysteries was, that when Adonis was slain by a wild boar, Venus laid out the body on a bed of lettuce.

  • He was slain by a wild boar, and having descended into the realm of Pluto, Persephone became enamoured of him.

  • Passing through the crowd, he came presently on the Cretans, arming round Idomeneus, who was at their head, fierce as a wild boar, while Meriones was bringing up the battalions that were in the rear.

  • As a hound grips a wild boar or lion in flank or buttock when he gives him chase, and watches warily for his wheeling, even so did Hector follow close upon the Achaeans, ever killing the hindmost as they rushed panic-stricken onwards.

  • With these words he put heart and soul into them all, and as a huntsman hounds his dogs on against a lion or wild boar, even so did Hector, peer of Mars, hound the proud Trojans on against the Achaeans.

  • The goddess, enraged at this neglect, sent a wild boar of extraordinary size and prodigious strength, which destroyed the sprouting grain, laid waste the fields, and threatened the inhabitants with famine and death.

  • Ardennes, Wild Boar of, an ancestor of Rev.

  • The crest said to be a wild boar, whence, perhaps, the name.

  • A connection with the Earls of Wilbraham (quasi wild boar ham) might be made out.

  • The fall of Teucer struck fresh dismay into the Greeks, who now shrank back behind their defences, Hector following them close, and cutting down the stragglers, like a hound hanging on the flanks of a wild boar.


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