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On her way back to where her baggage lay stowed, the young woman passes under the tusk-like overhang of the Gershwin Hotel, where next door, the comforting aroma of coffee lures her through the door.
Raw Sugar Karen Eileen Sikola 2011
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Its whole head with those huge tusk-like teeth looks really exorbitantly, like a monster from a B-Movie, but it was yet a real creature.
Studio Shot in ImagineFX James Gurney 2010
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These were ogre-like monsters with tusk-like canines protruding from their lower jaws and claws that dug into my flesh without mercy.
The Saved Man 2010
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They are always painted red and have a fixed form with curving tusk-like projections and protruding globular eyes.
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They are always painted red and have a fixed form with curving tusk-like projections and protruding globular eyes.
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Basal forms had multiple teeth, but mostly they had a strongly reduced dentition, with only large tusk-like upper canines projecting from their short, beaked jaws.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Meanwhile, Sir John of Scotland Yard (Siegfried Schürenberg, flirting as usual with sexy secretary Miss Findlay, played by Ilsa Pagé) sends a man (likeable Heinz Drache as "Humphrey Connery"!) to the area to investigate a series of animal attacks committed by a hound with large, tusk-like teeth.
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Meanwhile, Sir John of Scotland Yard (Siegfried Schürenberg, flirting as usual with sexy secretary Miss Findlay, played by Ilsa Pagé) sends a man (likeable Heinz Drache as "Humphrey Connery"!) to the area to investigate a series of animal attacks committed by a hound with large, tusk-like teeth.
Archive 2006-04-23 2006
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But its face, limned in the bright moonlight, was bestial, with close-set ears, flaring nostrils, and a great flabby-lipped mouth in which gleamed white tusk-like fangs.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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But its face, limned in the bright moonlight, was bestial, with close-set ears, flaring nostrils, and a great flabby-lipped mouth in which gleamed white tusk-like fangs.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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