Examples from literature

• Ever since that date, for five hundred years, a boar's head has graced the college table at Christmas. 
• Several large hogs and boars had been brought from thence which had weighed, when fattened, from one hundred and eighty to three hundred and six pounds. 
• The first of these was an enormous brute, evidently the boar we wanted. 
• This boar was afterwards shot by one of my people in an adjacent jungle—at least a boar was shot, which we infer must have been the one in question, as since then my garden has not been disturbed. 
• To his extreme amazement, the identical boar which had caused all his trouble and fatigue, appeared closely followed by both the dogs.