The river-horse feeds upon the herbage of the Nile, and the behemoth is said to eat grass like an ox.
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River horse
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Liverpool started and snorted like a river-horse roused amongst his reeds by thunder.
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It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
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Here, before a feast that would prick the dead with appetite, were shapes of beasts with heads of men, asses, elephants, bulls, horses, swine, foxes, riverhorses, dromedaries; […]
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