| 单词 | rogue elephant |
| 例句 | The manager of a local hotel came to fetch us armed with rifles and reported that he had been delayed by a herd of rogue elephants. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Although both remained vocal in their disagreement – Fowles said afterwards that Gross viewed him as a rogue elephant in the matter – the view of the majority held. John Gross obituary 2011-01-11T18:09:15Z In January, after state forest officials captured alive a rogue elephant in Palakkad district, they found that its body had more than a dozen pellet marks, possibly from air guns. Padayappa: The friendly India elephant whose fame is a curse 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Gage provides proof that Hoover was no rogue elephant, acting entirely on his own. Review | A biography that may change your mind about J. Edgar Hoover 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z That great hit song was something of a beautiful rogue elephant who, after escaping from the zoo, remained hidden in the Hollywood Hills somewhere near Argyle. Rickie Lee Jones remembers Chuck E. Weiss: 'He was a Svengali to Tom Waits and everyone who knew him' 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Bomba the jungle boy is ordered to slaughter a herd of rogue elephants that have been trampling natives. Movies on TV this week: 'Tootsie' on Showtime; 'Halloween' on AMC 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The rogue elephant was spotted Thursday with a drone in the Kankata Reserve, Northeast Now reports. Elephant in India named after Usama bin Laden tramples to death 5 villagers 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z His face was on the leather jackets of Thai bikers and T-shirts in Kenya, while his name was given to a rogue elephant in northeastern India. No longer does al-Qaida grab the headlines. That might be the plan | Jason Burke 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z A “rogue elephant,” as British colonists on the Indian subcontinent discovered, is one that roams apart from the herd, exhibiting aberrant or vicious behavior. ‘Rogue’ Dates Back Long Before ‘Star Wars’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Arensberg promptly revised the description to “that rogue elephant in porcelain,” in view of Stevens’s social ineptitude. The Thrilling Mind of Wallace Stevens 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z The notion that the C.I.A. was running its own foreign policy, or that it was a “rogue elephant,” as one senator later called it, is absurd. When the C.I.A. Duped College Students 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z As my old boss Church pointed out so many years ago, the CIA often acts as a “rogue elephant.” CIA Torture Report Shows the 'Rogue Elephants' Are Back 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z This revives the notion of the CIA as a “rogue elephant” that was propounded by Frank Church’s committee in the 1970s but has been rebutted by many historians. David Ignatius: The Senate’s CIA report is a necessary public accounting 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z The expression “going rogue” has also found favor in military circles, though the Oxford English Dictionary dates it back to 1905, referring to rogue elephants. ‘Rogue’ Dates Back Long Before ‘Star Wars’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z A "rogue elephant"—one who has been tamed, and afterwards goes back to his savage state—is one of the most dangerous of wild beasts. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z But Ling may be likened to a solitary beast of prey, a man-eating tiger, or a rogue elephant--than which there is no more dangerous beast in all the world. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z Without strong congressional oversight, the “rogue elephants” will return again and again. CIA Torture Report Shows the 'Rogue Elephants' Are Back 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Still, when I find myself face to face with a rogue elephant, I know that my life is in danger. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z He adopted a herd of rogue elephants that would otherwise have been shot. Lawrence Anthony, Baghdad Zoo Savior, Dies at 61 2012-03-12T03:40:19Z Now, early next morning a rogue elephant was to be tracked, and if possible bagged. Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z He was, I fancy, what they call a rogue elephant—an elephant, that is to say, who has been sent to Coventry, for some offence, by his companions. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z He had his gun up to his shoulder with pretty much the confidence of a veteran Nimrod, meeting the charge of an old rogue elephant, or a wounded tiger, in the East Indian jungles. Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country 2011-10-21T02:00:18.430Z When I reached the Torsa, a broad and rapid river, across which, some thirty miles to the north, I had driven the man-killing rogue elephant months before, I found it unfordable. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z After all, Gramps said, he didn't have to go looking for rogue elephants, man-killing lions or short-tempered buffalo. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z Even in Africa I have never known anything but a rogue elephant or buffalo, or an occasional rhinoceros, to attack so viciously or with such premeditation when itself neither wounded nor threatened. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Mukna committed the most terrible crime—he actually tried to kill people; and then he tried to run away into the jungle and perhaps become a rogue elephant. The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two I was becoming morose when I found her—like a rogue elephant. Love of Brothers I found a round punctured wound several inches deep in her back; and on her rump were several smaller holes and cuts made by the rogue elephants. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z Many a shot that "rogue elephant" had received, years before the three or four Indian sportsmen, who presented its skull as a trophy, succeeded in planting a shot in its brain, or in its heart. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. As he did so, the rogue elephant curled forward his trunk and trumpeted loud and shrill—a wild scream of rage and defiance that sent the chattering monkeys scurrying in frightened silence. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series Those scars are the brand of the rogue elephant. The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two The author also talks in a lively and pleasant way about white elephants, rogue elephants, baby elephants, trick elephants, of the elephant in war, pageantry, sports and games. Sara Crewe or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's I found that I was known to most by reputation as the lunatic who had walked up to a notorious rogue elephant with only a camera in his hand. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z It was evidently a rogue elephant, an ill-tempered brute who had been driven from the herd to spend a solitary existence. Adventures in Africa By an African Trader This was a visible sign that the rogue elephant was indeed to be feared, and the doctor brightened up and rubbed his hands. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series Thus, no matter what herd the rogue elephant tried to join, he would be driven out. The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two I told him he must look out, and not be caught by another rogue elephant. In the Wilds of Africa There are a number of solitary male rogue elephants about that are always dangerous and should be shot at on sight, especially if you have an elephant with you. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z He told the story of the rogue elephant, modestly granting a co-hero's role to his guide. The Hunters That would account for the desolated country—that and the rogue elephant. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series A rogue elephant, being the outlaw of the jungle, does not live long. The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two The neighbourhood was infested by a huge rogue elephant, whom none of these people could succeed in killing. My First Voyage to Southern Seas It happened that day that when on foot I had been attacked by a rogue elephant which I had only brought down with a bullet in the head fifteen paces from me. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z Post-breaker, my mistress' rogue elephant, broke the stake he was tied to, killed his keeper, and ran into the street, making a terrible commotion. The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika Then, from the forest, not behind but ahead of them, broke a group of yelling Masai headed by Bakari, running on the spoor of the rogue elephant. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series Just as an outlaw among men gets shot by the sheriff's men sooner or later, so also a rogue elephant gets shot by hunters. The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two It was well known that the rogue elephant was near, and so audacious had he become, that though driven off from one part, he was very likely to appear directly afterwards in another. My First Voyage to Southern Seas "I put it in on chance of being useful if we had trouble with tigers or a rogue elephant." Jack Haydon's Quest The author talks in a lively and pleasant way about white elephants, rogue elephants, baby elephants, trick elephants, of the elephant in war, pageantry, sports and games. Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy He had seen the crushed bodies, battered to pulp and with the limbs torn away, of men killed by rogue elephants. The Elephant God Twice did he pull out his watch as he came along the street, and he pushed through the crowd like a rogue elephant going through a rice crop. The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery I remembered my narrow escape from the rogue elephant, and scarcely expected to be so fortunate again. My First Voyage to Southern Seas He not only miscalculated the distance, but, on the approach of nightfall, he was chased by a vicious rogue elephant. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon Both plainly belonged to the same species and it pleased my whim to symbolise them as a mastodon and a rogue elephant. The Collectors A big maskinonge lives a life much like that of a rogue elephant in its isolation. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories We were going after a rogue elephant that had been doing a lot of damage among the natives' plantations. Rujub, the Juggler We might be wandering about day after day, searching for each other in vain, till all our ammunition was expended, and might easily then fall victims to rogue elephants, or bears, or other wild beasts. My First Voyage to Southern Seas No, I was rather unfortunate, but I and another fellow killed two tigers, and went after a rogue elephant; but he nearly killed us. Dawn He looked the amateur, and indeed does not the rogue elephant trample down villages chiefly for the joy of the affray? The Collectors She was systematically and constitutionally mischievous, like a rogue elephant, so I call her a rogue squaw. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) It was Umbashi who had collided with them and accompanying him was Aga, the man who killed the rogue elephant. The Boy Aviators in Africa I have now only to meet a rogue elephant, a wild boar, a buffalo, and a leopard, to fill up the list of my possible opponents. My First Voyage to Southern Seas If they are not molested by man, there is very little to fear from any of them save the man- eating lions, and tigers, the northern wolf packs, Alaskan brown bears and rogue elephants. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations The mastodon, we must suppose, lacked much of the finesse of the rogue elephant of later evolution. The Collectors That’s a rogue elephant of the worst kind, and he’s at the height of his rage.” Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land A rogue elephant is one that has become estranged from the rest of his kind by reason of his fierce intractability. The Boy Aviators in Africa He could talk sense to a peevish cobra in fifteen native languages, and probably knew what to do if you found a rogue elephant on your croquet-lawn; but he was shy and diffident with women. The Chronicles of Clovis A famous case in point is the rogue elephant, who goes from meanness to meanness until he becomes unbearable. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations I had been caught by a rogue elephant a few days before, and my right thigh was so damaged that I could only walk a few yards with difficulty. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 The great risk in attacking rogue elephants consists in the impracticability of quick movements upon such ground as they generally frequent. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon It is a curious sight, and one of the grandest in the world, to see a fine rogue elephant knocked over in full charge. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon They could not approach nearer, as a notoriously vicious rogue elephant was consorting with the herd. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon A rogue elephant will attack anything from a wheelbarrow to a hut, and destroy it. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations The rogue elephant did not appear to notice them until within about 200 yards; it then suddenly halted, and turning round, it faced them as though in astonishment at being disturbed. Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa and America — Volume 1 In this forest we saw deer and wild buffalo, but we would not fire a shot, as we had just discovered the fresh track of a rogue elephant. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon In November and December elephant-shooting requires more than ordinary caution at the 'Park,' as the rogue elephants, who are always bulls, are in the habit of attending upon the herds. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon When within a mile of the tent, as we were riding along a path through a thick thorny jungle, an immense rogue elephant stalked across our road. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon On another occasion a vicious rogue elephant elected to try conclusions with a railway train. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations This class are generally the worst description of rogue elephants, who seldom move far from the lakes, but infest the shores for many years. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon The servants were engaged in arranging for the departure, when a native brought intelligence of a rogue elephant within four miles of the tent. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon The most extraordinary tale that I have ever heard of rogue elephants in Ceylon was told me by the Rhatamahatmeya of Doolana, who was present at the scene when a lad. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon A rogue elephant was bathing in a little pool of deep mud and water near the tank of Monampitya, about six miles from the 'Gunner's Coin.' The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon While describing the long shots performed by this particular rifle, I cannot help recounting a curious chance with a large rogue elephant in Topari tank. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon Their attractions to rogue elephants having been explained, it may be readily understood that these gentry abound throughout the district. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon To my surprise I saw a rogue elephant drinking in the lake, within a quarter of a mile of me; but the Fates were against his capture. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon This is the proper way to succeed with rogue elephants, although of course it is attended with considerable danger. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon |
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