—Here you are, says Alf, chucking out the rhino. Talking about hanging, I'll show you something you never saw 1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
When so be as a man has no money, why then, a savin and exceptin your onnur's reverence, a's but a poor dog. But when so be as a man as got the rhino, why then a may begin to hold up his head. 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anne St. Ives, vol. III.52:
There I fell in with Betsy, and as she proved a regular out and outer, I spliced her, and a famous wedding we had of it, as long as the rhino lasted. 1835, Frederick Marryat, The Pacha of Many Tales:
This cutting from an East African newspaper caught our eye last month: "The up mail train from Mombasa was held up for an hour at Kibwezi by an angry rhino on Monday night." 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: B.R. exile at work?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586:
‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’ 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24: