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I shoot the Hippopotamus bullets
— Hippopotami
I shoot the Hippopotamus bullets
The broad-backed hippopotamusHe is merely flesh and blood.
Did you ever see the Rhinoceros, and the Hippopotamus, at the Zoological Gardens, trying to dance a minuet together? It is a touching sight.
He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk'There won't be much for us!'
A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake.
Behold the hippopotamus!I wonder how we look to him.
Away on the hilltop sat combing her hair
There is something about a blurb-writer paying his respects to a funny book which puts one in mind of a short-sighted lord mayor raising his hat to a hippopotamus.
