Gluttons

Usage examples of pigs.

If we found their embarkation port we could pinpoint the ship that carried the stolen pigs to Rome.

Besides, mine were four special bars: stolen pigs to be sold to strangers, stolen pigs that still contained their silver.

I knew how the silver pigs were carried to Italy, by whom, and how concealed: under a cargo so dull the customs force at Ostia who operate the luxury tax and have perfect artistic taste glanced once inside the hold, groaned at the ghastly shale, then never stooped to search his boat.

I remember the pigs and a nice fat farmer’s wife—and everybody being very kind—and I remember, quite clearly, the funny way they used to look at me—everybody—a sort of furtive look.

Christie chooses to identify with the little pigs, to the extent of heading each of five consecutive chapters of the novel (chapters 6 to 10) with the appropriate line of the nursery rhyme, do not have any light thrown upon them by being so identified.

Crocodile Point, and catch wild pigs and African gray and purple herons.

Let's see how close we can get to those pigs without them spotting us.

The pigs were keeping their squat bodies sealed up as much as possible, maintaining an inner reservoir of life-sustaining Air.

Within a few heartbeats they had thrown the net around the two pigs and were prodding at them, trying to force them to subside.

Green jetfarts squirted from the pigs, and the net bulged as the terrified animals strove vainly to escape.

Behind him the two trapped pigs were struggling free of the abandoned net.

Why else ride around in a wooden prison, dependent on the cooperation of young pigs, other than to carry with you enough Air to sit in comfort?

The laboring pigs were emitting green clouds of jetfart, so dense they half-obscured the animals themselves.

Thin leather ropes—reins—were attached to the pierced fins of the pigs and led, through a tight membrane in the front face of the cabin, to Mixxax's hands.

Mixxax held the reins almost casually, as if his control of the pigs and car was unthinking, automatic.