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Definition of Nilgais
1. nilgai [n] - See also: nilgai
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nilgais
Literary usage of Nilgais
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sport and Travel in India and Central America by A. G. Bagot (1897)
"Suddenly I heard the band cease, or in other words the hackery stopped, and
instantly up went all the nilgais' heads, and they gathered themselves together ..."
2. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1885)
"... among the nilgais, laid hero, expects tlio noblest crown, which tlio just
Judge shall give to him in Hint day. lie lived the years of 1'lato. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1904)
"When we enquire into the past history of this group we find that extinct nilgais
occur in India and China, where various types of kudu, eland, and, perhaps, ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The fauna of the Province includes tigers, leopards, hyaenas, lynxes, wolves,
hears, jackals, and foxes; nilgais, antelopes, and deer; wild boar, ..."
5. The Works of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon, James Spedding, William Rawley, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (1870)
"There are, according to Aristotle, three kinds of nilgais or motion, corresponding
to the three categories which admit of contrariety; namely, ..."
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