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Example sentences for "blesbok"

Lexicographically close words:
blendings; blends; blenny; blent; blenty; bless; blesse; blessed; blessedest; blessedly
  1. Far below her, stretching across the track, a great herd of blesbok were moving restlessly, their forms looking vague and unreal through the gauzy veil of heat.

  2. The legs, too, in the blesbok are not so white as in the bontebok, and whilst the horns of the latter species are always perfectly black, in the former they are of a greenish colour.

  3. In a word, the differences between the bontebok and the blesbok are confined to the intensity of the colours on various portions of their hides, the former being much more brilliantly coloured than the latter.

  4. The general body colour of the blesbok is dark brown, but not so dark as on the neck and sides of the bontebok, and the delicate purply lilac colour of the back in the latter species is altogether wanting in the former.

  5. This would permit the absolute preservation of such animals as the springbok and the blesbok in certain parts of the country where they are scarce, without interfering with sport in other localities where they are plentiful.

  6. The blesbok is rather less frequent, though he used to be common enough, but there are numerous small herds in various parts of the country.

  7. Before we started next morning, a huge herd of blesbok suddenly appeared on the scene, wildly galloping about in every direction, being continually brought up by the barbed wire fences of the farms.

  8. The blesbok (Gazella albifrons) is neither so large nor so brilliantly marked as the bontebok, (Gazella pygarga).

  9. In this respect both he and the blesbok bear some resemblance to the antelopes of the acronotine group--the hartebeest and sassabye.

  10. Such is the colour of the bontebok, and that of the blesbok differs from it only in the points already mentioned, and in its colours being somewhat less marked and brilliant.

  11. When they had got fairly within the boundaries of the blesbok country, the young yagers resolved to make halt for a day or two, and hunt these beautiful antelopes.

  12. Our young yagers had now arrived in the land of the blesbok and bontebok.

  13. Bubalis, blesbok and sassaby (Damaliscus), and the gnu (q.

  14. In Damaliscus, which includes, among many other species, the blesbok and bontebok (D.

  15. If the blesbok were changing ground, I believed that the hunters were calling out their hounds and getting ready for the chase.

  16. The blesbok are changing ground,' he said, and looked me straight in the face.

  17. Suddenly I observed a number of vultures seated on the plain about a quarter of a mile ahead of us, and close beside them stood a huge lioness, consuming a blesbok which she had killed.

  18. Numbers of springbok and blesbok were seen in every direction, and 'jagged' whenever near enough to render it easy to overtake the party again, which was a very different affair from catching up the infantry column.

  19. By this time the blesbok had recovered from the hard run, and took himself off.

  20. The night being very dark, we could only distinguish, by the light from our fire, that an immense herd of blesbok was amongst us.

  21. In the morning, on examining the spoor, there must have been many wild dogs engaged in the chase, but they were stopped at the sight of the two fires and waggons, and our shots at the blesbok as they passed us.

  22. I have often seen forty and fifty in a pack in full cry, after blesbok or springbok, and a beautiful sight it is.

  23. A few wild beasts; blesbok and many springbok may now be seen on the plains, and also the ostrich.


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