Smith, two others, thehippopotamus, the giraffe, the bos caffer -- as large as a full-grown bull, and the elan -- but little less, two zebras, and the quaccha, two gnus, and several antelopes even larger than these latter animals.

Pava, a perfect beauty, huge as ahippopotamus, with her back turned to them, prevented their seeing the calf, as she sniffed her all over.

In the great Zoological Gardens we found specimens of all the animals the world produces, I think, including a dromedary, a monkey ornamented with tufts of brilliant blue and carmine hair--a very gorgeous monkey he was-- ahippopotamus from the Nile, and a sort of tall, long-legged bird with a beak like a powder horn and close-fitting wings like the tails of a dress coat.

Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus orhippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.

"He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk Descending from the bus: He looked again, and found it was AHippopotamus:

Its head and mouth are similar in appearance to those of ahippopotamus, except that from the sides of the lower jawbone two mighty horns curve slightly downward toward the front.

"Now if only ahippopotamus could fly up in the air out of that bush, or you preserved flying elephants on the estate, why, then--"

She took from the window some specimen or other of natural history,--her eyes being too dim with moisture to inform her accurately whether it was a rabbit or ahippopotamus,--put it into the child's hand as a parting gift, and went her way.

Its head and mouth are more similar in appearance to those of ahippopotamus than to any other earthly animal, except that from the sides of the lower jawbone two mighty horns curve slightly downward toward the front.

"Well," said Sir Henry, as we sat down, having first lit a lamp of the sort used by the Kukuanas, of which the wick is made from the fibre of a species of palm leaf, and the oil from clarifiedhippopotamus fat, "well, I feel uncommonly inclined to be sick."

He found pleasure in watching the ungainly antics of Duro, thehippopotamus, and keen sport in tormenting the sluggish crocodile, Gimla, as he basked in the sun.

'He said he WOULD come in,' the White Queen went on, 'because he was looking for ahippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning.'