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Peccaries are very fast for a few hundred yards, but speedily tire, lose their wind, and come to bay.

From Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches by Roosevelt, Theodore

Peccaries have delicately moulded short legs, and their feet are small, the tracks looking peculiarly dainty in consequence.

From Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches by Roosevelt, Theodore

I'm not so very big around and not great as to length, But one thing Peccaries have learned—in numbers there is strength.

From Animal Children The Friends of the Forest and the Plain by Kirkwood, Edith Brown

Peccaries are not difficult beasts to kill, because their short wind and their pugnacity make them come to bay before hounds so quickly.

From Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches by Roosevelt, Theodore

And now for the indigenous hogs of America, the Peccaries.

From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by Harvey, William