The sambur deer is one of the most distinguished of the deer tribe. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
Account of an interesting friendship between a tame sambur deer and a bull bison. From Wordnik.com. [Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore] Reference
Both knew that Ossaroo meant by "Samboo," the great deer or stag known to Europeans as the sambur deer. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
About a week afterwards a young doe sambur, which was being pursued by jungle dogs, rushed into one of the labourer's huts and was secured. From Wordnik.com. [Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore] Reference
The history of this animal, and more especially of the warm friendship that sprung up between it and a doe sambur deer, is extremely interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore] Reference
The others did not join him in this singular viand, although the shikarree assured them that tiger-beef was far superior to the venison of the sambur deer. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
Ossaroo, especially, declared that there was not the slightest danger in attacking him, armed as they were; not so much as there would be in an encounter with a sambur stag. From Wordnik.com. [The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains] Reference
When thus led out to graze the sambur sometimes remained behind, but seemed to have no difficulty in finding the bull even though it had been taken to a considerable distance. From Wordnik.com. [Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore] Reference
Your brains must be one fossiliferous deposit, in which gaur and sambur, hog and tiger, rhinoceros and elephant, lie heaped together, as the old ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs are heaped in the lias rocks at Lyme. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Idylls, New and Old] Reference
He had evidently been stalking the sambur, which had uttered the note of alarm I had heard, and no doubt seeing that there was something at the edge of the jungle, had crawled to the edge, and there lain down within ten or twelve yards of me. From Wordnik.com. [Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore] Reference
But it is natural that all wild animals should become more dangerous the more they are hunted, and, rather to my amusement, my old shikari, to whom I have previously alluded, complained in a querulous and aggrieved tone that every animal -- even the sambur deer -- seemed to charge one nowadays. From Wordnik.com. [Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore] Reference
It is difficult to believe that big game in remote spots can perceive whether a man means to harm them or not, but it is remarkable that when on his way to the jungle alluded to, the photographer passed two sambur deer in the long grass, and at no great distance away, and saw them still lying there on his return. From Wordnik.com. [Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore] Reference
I was fortunate enough to have one of these in my service, and to no sporting scenes in life can I look back with greater pleasure than when I was able, with my trusted native follower, to spend delightful mornings and evenings, and at certain times whole days, in stalking bears, bison, and sambur in the Western Mysore mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore] Reference
One might have fancied this was the encampment of newly-come invaders, were it not for the larger villages that are overgrown with thickets and altogether swallowed up again in the wilderness, and for the deserted temples that are found rent asunder by the roots of trees and the ancient embankments that hold water only for the drinking of the sambur deer. From Wordnik.com. [The Research Magnificent] Reference
Scent of a sambur, up and gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Winds of the World] Reference
She follows the sambur! ". From Wordnik.com. [King of the Khyber Rifles] Reference
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