wart-hog

In Xaranna two days earlier, our guides, following tracks in the dirt and the alarm calls of other animals, had impressively led us to a young female leopard; we saw her testing her hunting skills on a wart-hog that was too big and experienced to land in her grasp.

Lions, Leopards and Luxury Sara Clemence 2011

The shot was repeated so many times, and Dan smashed so many bones, that I was afraid we were going to run out of wart-hog (or tapir) skulls.

Tin 2010

Now, I argued, he would choose a safe place, for the wart-hog, hideous though he is, is a wise beast.

Prester John 2005

I saw that it was a big wart-hog, and began to think.

Prester John 2005

I was not the only one who was wallowing in sentiment like a wart-hog in a mud bath; even Kratas and Remrem and Astes, for all their hardbitten and cavalier attitudes which they usually cultivated so assiduously, were grinning like idiots, and I swear I saw more than one pair of wet eyes in their ranks.

River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993

The shot was repeated so many times, and Dan smashed so many bones, that I was afraid we were going to run out of wart-hog (or tapir) skulls.

The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

Only the implicitly violent took his attention: the vultures, the hyena, the wart-hog, the possibility of lion and the scarcity of cheetah.

Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972

Only the implicitly violent took his attention: the vultures, the hyena, the wart-hog, the possibility of lion and the scarcity of cheetah.

Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972

Then he motioned to the driver to go on and the car moved slowly along, the driver avoiding wart-hog holes and driving around the mud castles ants had built.

The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

This is very poor stuff and worthy only of a creature who combines with the intellectual development of a gorilla the pachymenia of the rhinoceros and the dental physiognomy of the wart-hog.

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 Various