Jun. 9th, 2010 02: 36 am (UTC) 'The rhinoceros is all that's left of the unicorn. From Wordnik.com. ["This whole world is wild at heart...and weird on top."] Reference
James had visited the San Diego Zoo and thought rhinoceros is the coolest animal on the planet. From Wordnik.com. [Subhankar Banerjee: Youth Across North America Are Fighting For Their Future Climate] Reference
A new rhinoceros from the lower Miocene of the Bugti Hills, Baluchistan, Pakistkan: the earliest elasmotheriine. From Wordnik.com. [Are Sumatran rhinos really ‘living fossils’?] Reference
No doubt the old rhinoceros is making trouble, but it is hard not to sympathise with him when he says of Ming Campbell. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Clarke "We must turn to the Liberals"] Reference
The jungle seems to be full of wild beasts, specially tigers, in this neighborhood, and the rhinoceros is not uncommon. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither] Reference
In Sao Paulo's city council election in 1959, the top vote getter among hundreds of candidates was Cacareco - a rhinoceros from the zoo. From Wordnik.com. [Brazil in Grip of Historic Vote] Reference
"A quarter of a century ago there was not a huge amount of interest in Chinese rhinoceros horn libation cups, but things have changed rather a lot since then.". From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference
This was the rhinoceros, which is found so near the Philippines as Sumatra. From Wordnik.com. [Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate] Reference
Next to the mighty elephant, the rhinoceros is the largest and strongest of animals. From Wordnik.com. [New National Fourth Reader] Reference
Throughout the whole course of our journey the rhinoceros was the most abundant of the larger animals. From Wordnik.com. [African Camp Fires] Reference
As you know, a rhinoceros is a very short-sighted brute, indeed his sight is as bad as his scent is good. From Wordnik.com. [Maiwa's Revenge] Reference
Moreover, he has to defend himself against the rhinoceros, which is a formidable antagonist, and often victorious. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission; or Scenes in Africa] Reference
Doctor say I got a hide like a "rhinoceros" or somethin. From Wordnik.com. [Forrest Gump]
A rhinoceros was a very awkward affair, if they did not get out of the way. From Wordnik.com. [The Mission; or Scenes in Africa] Reference
For example, big game such as rhinoceros were hunted to the point of extinction not recently but 17 thousand years ago. From Wordnik.com. [the case for unsustainability] Reference
The young rhinoceros is house-trained. From Wordnik.com. [Masters of Our Fate] Reference
If he did not do one or the other, he would easily make his escape -- as any kind of rhinoceros can outrun a man. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
Nothing stood between Paul and the mother rhinoceros now. From Wordnik.com. [True Love and the Giraffe] Reference
The rhinoceros, Craigie noted, is practically extinct outside the parks. From Wordnik.com. [SCIENCE NEWS] Reference
He's like a rhinoceros, an elephant, and a hippopotamus all rolled up in one. From Wordnik.com. [Women Making Love to Monsters] Reference
The oldest museum specimen in existence, as far as I know, is a rhinoceros in the. From Wordnik.com. [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] Reference
A rhinoceros on trek for water and nearly mad with thirst had winded the waterskins in a. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Footnote: A herd of buffaloes is generally accompanied by one or more red-beaked rhinoceros birds. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
It is as clumsy as a hippopotamus, as ugly as a rhinoceros, and as kind and gentle as an old muley cow. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Canst thou bind the rhinoceros with thy thong to plough, or will he break the clods of the valleys after thee?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
They were seen by a deer, a boar, an elk, a buffalo, a wild ox, a rhinoceros, a tiger, a lion, and an elephant. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore] Reference
In the known history of Tallahassee, nobody had ever been killed by a rhinoceros, and that was going to change. From Wordnik.com. [True Love and the Giraffe] Reference
For the first time a rhinoceros was shown; eighteen elephants were killed by fierce Libyan hunters, and five hundred. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
It was formerly thought that the legendary unicorn was in reality the one-horned rhinoceros, but this seems improbable. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
There are people who are having plastic surgery to graft something that looks like a rhinoceros horn on their foreheads. From Wordnik.com. [Paretsky's PI Uncovers Murder In Chicago] Reference
There are many elephants in the uplands; the rhinoceros lives in the lowlands; the tiger lives in the jungle, as in India. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Rheena's broken horn wouldn't hurt her any — some zoos snapped off rhinoceros horns intentionally — so there was no issue there. From Wordnik.com. [True Love and the Giraffe] Reference
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