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  • For in the mead of the reedy river there lay, cooling his flanks and huge belly in the mud, a white-tusked boar, a deadly monster, whom even the nymphs of the marsh dreaded, and no man knew it; but all alone he was feeding in the wide fen.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • A great, white-tusked elephant ambled around a clump of the trees, half a dozen more behind it.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

  • Meet for the wrestlers, a great boar the fierce and white-tusked spoil

    Collected Poems 2003

  • For in the mead of the reedy river there lay, cooling his flanks and huge belly in the mud, a white-tusked boar, a deadly monster, whom even the nymphs of the marsh dreaded, and no man knew it; but all alone he was feeding in the wide fen.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • For in the mead of the reedy river there lay, cooling his flanks and huge belly in the mud, a white-tusked boar,

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • Ornytus the hunter rides near in strange arms on his Iapygian horse, his broad warrior's shoulders swathed in the hide stripped from a bullock, his head covered by a wolf's wide-grinning mouth and white-tusked jaws; a rustic pike arms his hand; himself he moves amid the squadrons a full head over all.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Past white-tusked walruses and sleepy penguins he flew, till on the eleventh day he saw the green, icy pinnacles of the Giant's palace against the waving curtain of the Polar lights.

    The Firelight Fairy Book Henry Beston 1928

  • ‘Bring the best of the swine, that I may sacrifice it for a guest of mine from a far land: and we too will have good cheer therewith, for we have long suffered and toiled by reason of the white-tusked swine, while others devour the fruit of our labour without atonement.

    Book XIV Homer 1909

  • Then he went to lay him down even where the white-tusked boars were sleeping, beneath the hollow of the rock, in a place of shelter from the North Wind.

    Book XIV Homer 1909

  • And he gave Odysseus the portion of honour, the long back of the white-tusked boar, and the soul of his lord rejoiced at this renown, and Odysseus of many counsels hailed him saying: 23

    Book XIV Homer 1909

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