horn-points

Updated: May 18, 2025

And then, in a flash, before any one had a second's warning to grasp the truth or prepare, with head down, eyes burning in the down-dropped, shaggy head, and upcurved horn-points gleaming in the afternoon sun, he charged, hurling himself, a living, reckless, furious battering-ram, straight at the little ratel. Did that ratel quit quick? Do ratels ever quit an unbeaten foe? I don't know.

F. St. Mars - The Way of the Wild