boar

• In German New Guinea the bent tusks of a boar are used as money. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• He wallowed, turned head over heels, kicked about with his four feet in the air, and got up black and disgusting as the inside of a chimney After this he halted, grunted a cheerful note, and wished to fawn on the monk, who checked him with a gesture Your boar is splendid!" —  En Route
• Sanglier is French for wild boar, the hairy, wiry cloth resembling the coat of the animal Sebastopol.= A twill-faced cloth named from Sebastopol, the Russian fortified town captured by the English and French in 1855 Serge.= Under this name are classed a large number of fabrics of twill construction. —  Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
• "I confess to partiality for the thick of the fray, the brunt of the fight, where men press all around you Assuredly, my Lord; for then the boar is in his element; no matter how he rushes, his tusks strike yielding flesh Why should we fight at all--at present?" —  Under the Rose
• A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females; and these have acquired weapons to combat each other for this purpose, as the very thick, shield-like, horny skin on the shoulder of the boar is a defence only against animals of his own species who strike obliquely upwards, nor are his tusks for other purposes except to defend himself, as he is not naturally a carnivorous animal. —  Evolution, Old ; New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin

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