Then he seized the fly just behind the head, and bit off pieces of the wings; these, the proboscis, and the legs dropped to the ground.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
She had it firmly gripped by the proboscis, and she was shrieking with delight.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
About them frisking, played All beasts of the earth, since wild, and of all chase In wood or wilderness, forest or den; Sporting the lion romped, and in his paw Dandled the kid; bears, tigers, ounces, pards, Gambled before them; the unwieldy elephant, To make them mirth, used all his might, and wreathed His light proboscis.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon