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When safely tied, they'd use a 'breaker stick', a slim piece of hard wood, to pry open the jaws of the dogs from the boar's hide!
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Mr. Greene's descriptions have the clarity one would expect from a poet, whether sketching the striped young boars, called marcassins, playing rough and tumble while looked over by the older sows, or recounting an old boar's happy mud bath.
Stalking the Beast Lawrence Norfolk 2011
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I have personnaly seen a 325 pound boar's shield stop a good .357 mag bullet with a quarter inch of penetration from 20 feet away.
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I have personnaly seen a 325 pound boar's shield stop a good .357 mag bullet with a quarter inch of penetration from 20 feet away.
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When safely tied, they'd use a 'breaker stick', a slim piece of hard wood, to pry open the jaws of the dogs from the boar's hide!
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He spent some of his teenage years in a million-dollar yellow brick home on a 1. 5-acre corner lot in Potomac, where a boar's head hung over the fireplace.
George Huguely, accused in Yeardley Love's death, was a man of privilege, rage 2010
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He describes what it feels like to be drunk ( "the pleasantly warm flush to his normally sallow cheeks"); the buildings at Harvard ( "complete with iron bars, ornate masonry, and a great limestone boar's head carved into its arched pinnacle"); and the girls that neck with the nerds ( "his hands roamed under her open white shirt, tracing the soft material of her red bra, his fingers lingering over her perky, round breasts").
In Your Face(book) Glenn Altschuler 2010
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Sometimes I have really violent dreams where I smash Libby's face in with a liquor bottle, a brick, a mounted boar's head ... really whatever my brain makes available to me.
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But before he could take it home, a Geiger counter showed a problem: The boar's meat was radioactive to an extent considered potentially dangerous for consumption.
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He spent some of his teenage years in a million-dollar yellow brick home on a 1. 5-acre corner lot in Potomac, where a boar's head hung over the fireplace.
George Huguely, accused in Yeardley Love's death, was a man of privilege, rage 2010
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