...Between them was a stand of ivory, some two feet high, whose top was a disk, cut from the largest tusk that ever could have been...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...The Makololo, knowing nothing of steelyards, but supposing that they were meant to cheat them, declined to trade except by exchanging one bull and one cow elephant's tusk for each gun...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...With another tusk we procured calico, which here is the chief currency, to pay our way down to the coast...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...But arms and ammunition flow in on all sides by new channels, and where formerly the price of a large tusk procured but one musket, one tusk of the same size now brings ten...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...For one tusk they got two muskets, three kegs of powder, large bunches of beads, and calico and baize enough to clothe all the party...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...You want ivory; I am a simple traveller; why should we clash? If I were offered the whole ivory of the country I would not accept a single tusk, nor interfere with you in any way...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...—A Lunda slave-girl was sent off to be soldfor a tusk, but the Manyuema don't want slaves, as we were told inLunda, for they are generally thieves, and otherwise bad characters...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...The Metamba orforest is of immense extent, and there is room for much ivory to bepicked up at five or seven bracelets of copper per tusk, if the slavessent will only be merciful...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...The sale of such a gigantic tusk, as may well be supposed, is considered an affair of almost national importance, and the bargain can only be adjusted through the medium of a "big palaver...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...The tusk obtained by Mr...
Frederic A. Lucas 「Animals of the Past」
...There is another hint of relationship in theupper tusks of the earlier mastodons, and thisis the presence of a band of enamel runningdown each tusk...
Frederic A. Lucas 「Animals of the Past」
...An instant later the copperhead lay twisting andwrithing and thrashing impotently among the grassroots;its back broken, and its body seared almost intwo by a slash of the dog's saber-like tusk...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Lad: A Dog」
...(3) A portion of a tusk and part of a skull were found on theBeebe Farm near Baroda...
Lee Raymond Dice 「The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan」
...I was therefore very desirous of adding the tusk of one of these wild boars to my trophies of the chase...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...usi(le), tusk...
Robert W. Williamson 「The Mafulu」
...—This is so named because a tusk was formerlyexhibited at the hotel which was reported to have come from here...
Gerard Fowke 「Archeological Investigations」
...The horn is made out of an elephant's tusk...
A. Clutton-Brock 「The Cathedral Church of York」
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