"Boar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... well could be sadder Brutes always rub their broad backs and stiff bristles Against—anything that comes handy. Oh lor! How the brute shoulders, and snorts, grunts and whistles! Off to the gutter, you big Irish boar! ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892 • Various
... dark glades of forest shades There rushed a raging boar, Two sapling oaks with cruel strokes His crooked ...
— A Book of Golden Deeds • Charlotte M. Yonge
... great fatigues; living, as they do, so constantly on horseback but, like all the people of India, they are not fond of exercise, save when at war. That is the difference between us and the English. These will get up at daybreak, go for long rides, hunt the wild boar or the tigers in the jungles of the Concan, or the bears among the Ghauts. Exercise to them is a pleasure; and we in the service of the English have often wondered at the way in which they willingly endure fatigues, when they ...
— At the Point of the Bayonet - A Tale of the Mahratta War • G. A. Henty
... "savage haired," for they wore their coarse black hair in many fantastic cuts, but the favorite fashion was that of a stiff roach or mane extending from the forehead to the nape of the neck, like the bristles of a wild boar's back or the comb of a rooster. By the Algonkins they were called "serpents," also. Their own name for themselves was "Wendat," or "People of the Peninsula"—a word which the ...
— Boys' Book of Indian Warriors - and Heroic Indian Women • Edwin L. Sabin
... growing longer, that outside the sun was shining later and later into the pearl-covered depths of the clouds, and that a timid and pallid Spring was beginning to show its green finger tips in the buds of the branches suffering the last nips of Winter—that wild, black boar who so often turned on ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
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