Quote Originally Posted by it-ogo View Post
1. South Ethiopian rook took a mouse away to the Congress of Lizards with her proboscis.
Or maybe "...the rook took the mouse by the proboscis..."?

(If the rook has a proboscis, then the rook takes the mouse "with the proboscis". If the mouse has a proboscis, then the rook takes the mouse "by the proboscis". Compare: "The cat grabbed the frog by the leg, with her teeth.")

But I assume that за хобот means that the хобот belongs to the mouse, not the rook.

P.S. For John Douglas, the word хобот most commonly means the "trunk" of a слон ("elephant").