Bartlett watched a wild boar quarrelling rather savagely with his sow; and both had their mouths open and their ears drawn backwards. But this does not appear to be a common action with domestic pigs when quarrelling. Boars fight together by striking upwards with their tusks; and Mr. Bartlett doubts whether they then draw back their ears. Elephants, which in like manner fight with their tusks, do not retract their ears, but, on the contrary, erect them when rushing at each other or at an enemy.英文原著 · 《The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals》
"Adonis they show as an hunter-god, violently killed by a boar- tusk, and unable to help his own distress. How then shall he take thought for mankind, he the adulterer, the hunter who died a violent death?英文原著 · 《Barlaam and Ioasaph》
A beechen cup brimming with milky foam, A fair cloth wrought with cunning imagery Of hounds in chase, a waxen honey-comb Dripping with oozy gold which scarce the bee Had ceased from building, a black skin of oil Meet for the wrestlers, a great boar the fierce and white-tusked spoil英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》
Combats between male animals are often violent and obstinate, and the employment of the natural weapons of the species in this way has led to perfecting of these, e.g. the tusks of the boar, the antlers of the stag, and the enormous, antler-like jaws of the stag-beetle. Here again it is impossible to doubt that variations in these organs presented themselves, and that these were considerable enough to be decisive in combat, and so to lead to the improvement of the weapon.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
The second sub-family, that of the Amynodonts, followed a totally different course of development, becoming short-legged and short-footed, massive animals, the proportions of which suggest aquatic habits; they retained four digits in the front foot. The animal was well provided with weapons in the large canine tusks, but was without horns. Some members of this group extended their range to the Old World, but they all died out in the middle Oligocene, leaving no successors.英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
"Our young king, blythe and gay, Is foremost in the fray: Poitou he plunders, Tuskland burns, -- He fights and wins where'er he turns."英文原著 · 《Heimskringla》
Tusk is a hand grenade. If he pardons him -- You're right. Tusk is a hand grenade, and we need to pull the pin and throw him at Walker before Walker pulls the pin and throws him at us.美剧 · 《House of Cards》