What is "javelina"

Usage examples of "javelina".

The rasp of fur and the rattle of hooves against rock, and as he looked down the bore of the handgun a pack of javelina burst out of a side-corridor where they had been hiding.

They could hear quail murmuring under the palo verde and mesquite, and the breeze brought them a brief, pungent scent of javelina, here, then gone.

They rode the sun up and ate the sandwiches John Grady had brought from the house and at noon they watered the horses at an old stone stocktank and walked them down a dry creekbed among the tracks of cattle and javelina to a stand of cottonwoods.

His belly was full of javelina and watching this dying man was simply the most interesting thing to happen his way in a long time.

If Aldo Finessa had been mauled by that javelina boar a hundred years ago, the most advanced hospital the ancients possessed could have done little more than amputate his arm.

When I think of the javelina meat I et and the bare-footed bandits I had to associate with whilst living in Old Mexico to avoid having to kill that wuthless critter, his present attitude embitters me.

He assumed that someone had hit a deer or javelina, and he expected to find a worried driver out of his car and checking the grill and front bumper for dents while an animal corpse lay on the asphalt illuminated by headlights, but that was not the sight that greeted him when he stepped outside.

It could have been a bird, could have been a javelina, could have been a mountain lion, could have been a hundred other things.

We dug in like wild javelinas, Alicia watching in horror and volunteering to make some oatmeal if anybody wanted it.

She had a long standing aversion to javelinas that were the bane of farmers back home in Texas.

Small orphans were abroad like irate dwarfs and fools and sots drooling and flailing about in the small markets of the metropolis and the prisoners rode past the carnage in the meatstalls and the waxy smell where racks of guts hung black with flies and flayings of meat in great red sheets now darkened with the advancing day and the flensed and naked skulls of cows and sheep with their dull blue eyes glaring wildly and the stiff bodies of deer and javelina and ducks and quail and parrots, all wild things from the country round hanging head downward from hooks.

Bear tracks, but several days old, javelinas, and what could be a cat track, a big one, probably a panther.

I could see a place where some javelinas, the wild pig of the desert, had been bedded down.

After a while he rose and made his way to the edge of the pan and up the dry course of an arroyo, fol­lowing the small demonic tracks of javelinas until he came upon them drinking at a standing pool of water.

There were antelope and deer tracks, and some of javelinas, those wild boars that I'd not seen this far north and west before.