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Definition of Gazelles
1. gazelle [n] - See also: gazelle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gazelles
Literary usage of Gazelles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"Nearer than this one can seldom hope to approach gazelles, except in the springbok
country near Benguella—Portuguese South West Africa — where these animals ..."
2. A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1823)
"THE gazelles. THE gazelles, of which there are several kinds, can with propriety
be referred neither to the goat nor the deer, and yet they partake of both ..."
3. A Journey to Central Africa; Or, Life and Landscapes from Egypt and the by Bayard Taylor (1885)
"... the Crows—gazelles—We encounter a Sandstorm—Tho Mountain of Thirst—The Wells
... Arabs—gazelles again—Ruins of an Ancient Coptic Monastery—Distant View ..."
4. Travels in Central Asia: Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across by Ármin Vámbéry (1865)
"gazelles AND WILD ABBES.—ARRIVAL AT THE PLATEAU KAF- ... of this hope in the
traces of numbers of gazelles and wild asses : he did not betray his thoughts, ..."
5. Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return with Emin Pasha by Gaetano Casati (1891)
"In the region on the right hand side of the Teli elephants abound in large numbers,
and between the two rivers Teli and Poko large herds of gazelles are to ..."
6. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"CHAPTER XVIII THE gazelles AND THEIR ALLIES SUBFAMILY ... THE gazelles are typical
of the subfamily ..."
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