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  • "What makes it difficult to work for NBC is that they're like a pack of wolves, always nipping at the rhinoceros's heels."

    Law and Disorder 2008

  • Professional politicians typically had hides that made a rhinoceros's look like rose petals, because they expected to have things hurled at them, some true, some not.

    The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

  • Cultivate a hide like a rhinoceros's, and Society will let fly its pin-pointed arrows in vain.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

  • The encounter was over in less than a minute, three of the rhinoceros's legs being taken off, and the head almost severed from the body.

    A Journey in Other Worlds 1894

  • There was no mistaking that mouth that opened like a kit-bag, and shut in a sneer like a rhinoceros's.

    The Magic World Gerald Spencer Pryse 1891

  • The encounter was over in less than a minute, three of the rhinoceros's legs being taken off, and the head almost severed from the body.

    A journey in other worlds A romance of the future John Jacob Astor 1888

  • If you cut it down and use it, you can send it through a rhinoceros's hide; -- what is the use of learning? '

    The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 James Legge 1856

  • Then comes the bird Rukh and carrieth off both the rhinoceros's eyes and blindeth him, so that he lieth down on the shore.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Voyagers and pilgrims and travellers declare that this beast called "Karkadan" will carry off a great elephant on its horn and graze about the island and the sea-coast therewith and take no heed of it, till the elephant dieth and its fat, melting in the sun, runneth down into the rhinoceros's eyes and blindeth him, so that he lieth down on the shore.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Yemen accused of responsibility for rhinoceros's endangered status Posted in: Environment

    Yemen Observer 2009

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