One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know. We tried to remove the tusks but they were embedded so firmly we couldn’t budge them. From LearnThat.org. [Morrie Ryskind (1895 - 1985) American screenwriter. Source: Animal Crackers (1929)]
tusk an elephant. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Now that my tusk is ugly too, I can't sleep nights just thinking about how completely ugly I am, and I weep all the time. From Wordnik.com. [My Father's Dragon] Reference
The ring on his tusk was his own invention, as a means to. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
Feranec believes that the Warren Mastodon tusk, which is 8 feet, 8 inches long, is the longest one uncovered to date. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
This whale's "tusk" looks like a unicorn doesn't it. From Wordnik.com. [Narwhal "Unicorn" Whale Tooth] Reference
Out of nowhere, a tusk was at his chest. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Kirk: Museum Of Natural History And Carl Akeley's Jounrey To Build Its African Wing] Reference
I'll just apply the basic principles of tusk surgery. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
“The tusk is here, Marufa,” remarked MYalu casually. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Fig. 152 shows a tusk tenon furnished with a drawbore pin. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
Behind MYalu came two young slaves bearing a small elephant tusk. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
Like lightning the hog threw him and then ripped him with his tusk. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference
The third grasped a tusk, and the fourth clutched the animal's tail. From Wordnik.com. [Where We Live A Home Geography] Reference
The cruel tusk of a rough, remorseless winter still yearly slays the. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Now ling, tusk, Greenland halibut and blue whiting are all fair game. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Reese Halter: Bountiful Ocean Requires Conservation Plan] Reference
There is a bison tusk, though, that I took, and I keep it on my desk. From Wordnik.com. [Bison] Reference
Each tusk must be worth, at an average, some fifteen pounds at the coast. From Wordnik.com. [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference
Bishop's trained eye fell on the long tusk-like lower teeth, flashing in the sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
I looked over a long, stone-headed spear, and the curve of an elephant's tusk, and. From Wordnik.com. [A Place so Foreign] Reference
The distance from the base or root of the tusk to the point is three feet seven inches. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850] Reference
They rose and placed the tusk beside the old man, shuffled backwards and squatted again. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
"The first flute was made from mammoth tusk," brother said, brushing the metal over his lips. From Wordnik.com. [Estate] Reference
Fig. 155 shows tusk and wedged tenons as used when making a portable book or medicine cabinet. From Wordnik.com. [Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used.] Reference
Each tusk is as long as a knife, and so sharp that a tiger does not always care to fight with a boar. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle Book One] Reference
I can see the gray, the hair follicles ... the eyeball, the trunk, the tusk, the foot -- the whole thing. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Siebel On Being Gored By An Elephant] Reference
A little farther on is Round Top itself, a craggy tusk of the rock-jawed earth pushed up there towards the azure. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
The cover showed a shirtless Barack, abs rippling, holding a battle ax in one hand and an elephant tusk in the other. From Wordnik.com. [Meet The New Guy On Air Force One] Reference
At nine years old, the point of the tusk is worn off, and the part that was concave begins to fill up and become rounded. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
In reality, it was the tusk of a cetaceous animal inhabiting the northern ocean, and known as the sea-unicorn or narwhal. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
I'm one of the few tusk dentists in the world, but I've worked with everything from aardvarks to elephants to gorillas to zebras. From Wordnik.com. [I Aid The Walrus...] Reference
I'm one of the few tusk dentists in the world -- but I've worked with everything from aardvarks to elephants to gorillas to zebras. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
In a tusk tenon, Fig. 267, No. 40, the tenon is made but one-sixth the thickness of the timber, whereas the tusk is made much larger. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
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