单词 | river horse |
例句 | The massive "river horses" are not the kind of mammals you want to mess with. Watch the 6 Most Gripping Animal Battles of 2017 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z Nile hippos are also known as river hippos or river horses. Ultrasound confirms Nile hippo at Cincinnati zoo pregnant 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Then, sitting down, aware of the pleasant viridian background in Francesco’s painting, my eyes blur: I feel like I am falling asleep: then, the river horse, my Magnifico, appears inside the pigment. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z One of the opposition shows was making a great feature of a pair of hippopotami, or river horses, from the Nile. Sawdust & Spangles Stories & Secrets of the Circus 2011-05-27T02:00:18.113Z The river horse couches there among the bulrushes, and on a great granite throne sits the God Memnon. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Crocodiles abound in these waters, as well as the hippopotami, or river horses. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z People often giggle as they read the plaque at the base of the statue, which refers to the hippo as George Washington's "river horse" and claims hippos once swam in the Potomac River. It's a jungle out there! Animal statues around Washington, D.C. 2010-05-11T04:00:00Z He threw coils of the rope about the short legs of the "river horse" and down went the hippopotamus with a thud. Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank The children gave a great shout and woke up the river horses, as they called them. The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone Now we could trace the marks of horsemen on the plain; and as we travelled up the river horses and cattle appeared on both banks. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 From the ivory of a river horse's tooth I had endeavoured to carve me a representative of Nais as last I had seen her. The Lost Continent He made his way down the stream to a point where the hills receded, and where he had observed a great many marks of the river horses. By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War I should not be surprised to see him some day put out the head of a river horse; or come forth a pewitt, or lapwing, some feathered metamorphosis. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bakehouses the pyramids. Moby Dick: or, the White Whale This he had already done, and he had exchanged a river horse, worth twenty dollars, for a terrestrial horse, worth twenty piastres. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs The river horse, which lives only on grass and branches of trees, is satisfied with killing the men, but the crocodile being more voracious, feeds upon the carcases. A Voyage to Abyssinia The explosive balls had both flown true to the mark, invariably a fatal one in the case of the river horse. By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War We should not be surprised to see him some day put out the head of a river horse; or come forth a pewit, or lapwing, some feathered metamorphosis. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia When I saw them thus floating with only the very top of the head and snout out of water, I for the first time appreciated why the Greeks had named them hippopotamuses-the river horses. The Land of Footprints |
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