brilliantly-piercing

Updated: June 7, 2025

The enormous head, with its broad triangular front the conical hump on the shoulders the small but brilliantly-piercing eyes the short black horns, of crescent shape the profusion of shaggy hair about, the neck and foreparts of the body the disproportioned bulk of the smaller hind-quarters the short tail, with its tufted extremity; all these are characteristics.

Mayne Reid - The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire