Moby-Dick: River horse
River horse
- a hippopotamus
- a massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa
The word river horse appears in the following sentences from Moby-Dick:
Chapter 1 > Paragraph 7 > Sentence 8:
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 bakehouses the pyramids.
Concordance for the word river horse from Moby-Dick.
