(A large Asiatic cat known as the chetah is somewhat). From Wordnik.com. [Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization] Reference
A large Asiatic cat known as the chetah is somewhat used in hunting for sport, but the species has never been adopted in any definite way. From Wordnik.com. [Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization] Reference
The "chetah" is much smaller than the leopard, seldom exceeding seven feet from the nose to the end of tile tail. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
Result: one neat and very flat rug made out of chetah. From Wordnik.com. [It, and Other Stories] Reference
He was still warm; and he was flat -- very flat, like a rug made of chetah skin. From Wordnik.com. [It, and Other Stories] Reference
I'd told Ivy where I was going to spread the chetah and that after that I'd come straight home. From Wordnik.com. [It, and Other Stories] Reference
We turned around to go back to our parking spot, and a chetah was sitting on a mound, just surveying the land, seeing where the lions were. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Thus the chetah of India (and probably the puma of Brazil) from far-back times took to hunting in the company of his two-legged and bow-and-arrow-armed friend, with whom he divided the spoil. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning] Reference
Page 56, unusual spelling of "chetah" retained. From Wordnik.com. [Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization] Reference
"As soon as the deer is pulled down, a keeper runs up, hoods the chetah cuts the victim's throat, and receiving some of the blood in. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)] Reference
The next fancy bait I tried was a chetah -- dead. From Wordnik.com. [It, and Other Stories] Reference
"chetah," and the "leopard" or "panther.". From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
The torch showed her where she sat, right near the dead chetah, in the very centre of the trap -- triggers all about her -- to touch one of which spelt death; and all around the trap, in a ring -- like an audience at a one-ring circus -- were the meat-eaters -- the tigers -- the lions -- the leopards -- and, worst of all, the pigs. From Wordnik.com. [It, and Other Stories] Reference
Thus the quadrupeds of Newera Ellia and the adjacent highlands are confined to the following classes: the elephant, the hog, the leopard, the chetah, the elk, the red deer, the mouse deer, the hare, the otter, the jackal, the civet cat, the mongoose and two others (varieties of the species), the black squirrel, the gray squirrel, the wanderoo monkey (the largest species in Ceylon), the porcupine, and a great variety of the rat. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
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