Each side acquires wives for the other and redeems their spirits at death by providing their maternal kin with tusked boars and yams. |
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He saw huge beasts, some horned, some tusked, that he could find no name for. |
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The tusked narwhal, white beluga whales and elusive bowhead whale all live off the northern part of this island. |
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Within a manner of half seconds, the wall exploded, and out from among the debris leapt a huge creature with slavering tusked jaws and mean yellow eyes. |
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In the 1980s their numbers dipped to dangerously low levels due to ivory poaching, but an effort to bring back the tusked mammal has had considerable success. |
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Every islander goes out to see it, huge, tusked, posing obligingly on the beach, while wildlife enthusiasts and photographers book themselves on the first plane. |
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The tusked visitor did return twice, but there was no damage to the house. |
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On the left, three other therapsids, tusked mammal-like reptiles by the name of Lystrosaurus, stand at the water's edge while, in the background, the gavial-like Chasmatosaurus bides its time in the water. |
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