With trembling excitement the Boy Aviators saw their young companions with both paddles make desperately for the shore, but before they reached it one of the Hippopotami intercepted them, and with a charge of angry fury literally tossed the boat clean out of the water.
"The Boy Aviators in Africa"
Captain Wilbur Lawton
Still the day wore on, and our poor horses followed us with feeble steps, and it was pitiable to look at them, so swollen and disfigured had they become, their faces resembling Hippopotami rather than terrestrial steeds.
"With Axe and Rifle"
W.H.G. Kingston
A herd of fat ungainly Hippopotami, on the bar out beyond the mangroves of the river mouth, fixed his gaze.
"Out of the Primitive"
Robert Ames Bennet