For ornament there were a number of ‘Bonzo’ pictures, and the dusty skulls of sambhur. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
They that bade the sambhur wheel, or pinned him as he passed. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Jungle Book] Reference
A broad-horned sambhur to be killed, worthy of your honor's strength! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion of Petra] Reference
"The men-folk, too, they die beside their ploughs," said a young sambhur. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Jungle Book] Reference
For the cry of our mates when the sambhur has wheeled and is standing at bay. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Jungle Book] Reference
For the cry of our mates when the sambhur has wheeled and is standing at bay!. From Wordnik.com. [Songs from Books] Reference
The sambhur lifted high his head again and spread the fan of one ear toward the wind, while one breathed twice. From Wordnik.com. [Son of Power] Reference
He slipped his feet into a pair of sock-like sambhur-skin foot coverings, found a long chair, and lay at length. From Wordnik.com. [The Light That Failed] Reference
I am asked to a great drive of geese, sambhur, and syn, but cannot accept for want of time -- was there ever anything more annoying!. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
Higher up the twenty-foot walls, heads of sambhur, markor, and the lesser deer of the Himalayas showed dimly in the light of one lowered lamp. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Amulet] Reference
I am told there are barking deer and jungle fowl within an hour of the ship, elephant, rhinoceros, sambhur, and much big game within thirty miles, but we are on the move again, and my heart bleeds. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
Or he would turn aside to the sound of clashing horns and hissing grunts, and dash past a couple of furious sambhur, staggering to and fro with lowered heads, striped with blood that showed black in the moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Jungle Book] Reference
And the First of the Tigers ran to and fro, calling aloud to the deer and the pig and the sambhur and the porcupine and all the Jungle Peoples, and they all ran away from him who had been their judge, because they were afraid. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Jungle Book] Reference
One cannot but think of big game; surely this is the place for sambhur if not for tiger: and there are trees like Spanish chestnuts with larger leaves and elms, and between the tall trunks are breaks of under cover, over which we get a glimpse now and then of rolling distant jungle and indigo blue hills against a soft grey sky. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
S’la, ‘and a silk shirt and my sambhur-skin shoes. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
I've seen a sambhur doe with just such eyes cut into ribbons a Rampore hound with her sharp hoofs. ". From Wordnik.com. [Caste] Reference
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