Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa.
1 Their name in ancient Greek translates to " river horse " yet modern science linked the animals to pigs.
2 The explosive balls had both flown true to the mark, invariably a fatal one in the case of the river horse .
3 This he had already done, and he had exchanged a river horse , worth twenty dollars, for a terrestrial horse, worth twenty piastres.
4 He threw coils of the rope about the short legs of the " river horse " and down went the hippopotamus with a thud.
5 From the ivory of a river horse 's tooth I had endeavoured to carve me a representative of Nais as last I had seen her.
6 The children gave a great shout and woke up the river horses , as they called them.
7 Now we could trace the marks of horsemen on the plain; and as we travelled up the river horses and cattle appeared on both banks.
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