A single tusk can represent years of income for an impoverished subsistence farmer.

They could not possibly manage more than a single tusk each.

However, a single tusk 4 cm long was found, showing that this specimen belonged to an even larger individual.

On closer look, Ayla saw that the staff was made from a single, long mammoth tusk which, by some unknown method, had been made straight.

The skull was fixed in the soil at a slight angle, the single visible tusk rising high, the eye socket black as mystery.

But a single tusk is, I must say it, a pathetic sight.

It was simply enormous, more especially that of one old bull, that carried, so said the natives, but a single tusk.

By this time the two halves of the single tusk of the great bull alone remained to be passed up.

If I were offered the whole ivory of the country I would not accept a single tusk, nor interfere with you in any way.

You would think there was not a single tusk left either above or below the ground in the whole country.