It is not the springbuck alone that manifests this feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
The island hosts 23 recorded species of mammals, including small herds of bontebok, springbuck, steenbok, fallow deer and eland. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The springbuck, possessing this feeling in an intense degree, and being eminently gregarious, becomes uneasy as the grass of the Kalahari becomes tall. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
The Cape Argus reported on its front page on Tuesday that among the animals affected were bontebok, springbuck, fallow deer and rabbits, and that environmentalists blamed neglect by the museum, which manages the island. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Black rhino, buffalo, eland and warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) have been reintroduced, while natural populations of greater kudu, bushbuck, common duiker and springbuck (Antidorcas marsupialis) as well as chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas) and vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus aethiops) are common. From Wordnik.com. [Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets] Reference
We were informed by the Bayeiye, who live on the lake, that when the annual inundation begins, not only trees of great size, but antelopes, as the springbuck and tsessebe (‘Acronotus lunata’), are swept down by its rushing waters; the trees are gradually driven by the winds to the opposite side, and become imbedded in mud. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Moves like a springbuck, and what an eye and form!. From Wordnik.com. [Jess] Reference
Can I shoot an elephant backwards over my shoulder with a rifle meant for springbuck?. From Wordnik.com. [The Ivory Child] Reference
It was a very pleasant room, furnished in European style, and carpeted with mats made of springbuck skins. From Wordnik.com. [Jess] Reference
Of all the South African antelopes, perhaps none is more known and admired than the Spring-boc (springbuck). From Wordnik.com. [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference
On our way through the Orange Free State we saw immense herds of springbuck and an occasional herd of blesbuck and wildebeeste. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference
It was startling because they were the only living creatures except birds and springbuck that I had seen for miles of that lonely march. From Wordnik.com. [The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900] Reference
The five-star lodge, which boasts six fly fishing dams and an array of native animals including wildebeest, springbuck, zebra an giraffe, is just 15 minutes away from their training ground. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
It was a much better building than the Boers generally indulge in, and the sitting-room, though innocent of flooring -- unless clay and cowdung mixed can be called a floor -- was more or less covered with mats made of springbuck skins. From Wordnik.com. [Jess] Reference
The springbuck, whence the best South African venison is obtained, has the colours of black, white and brown; and this blend has not prevented it from having the reputation of being the prettiest and most graceful antelope in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XVIII] Reference
And there, too, is the wild game, following its feeding-grounds in great armies, with the springbuck thrown out before for skirmishers; then rank upon rank of long-faced blesbuck, marching and wheeling like infantry; and last the shining troops of quagga, and the fierce-eyed shaggy vilderbeeste to take, as it were, the place of the cossack host that hangs upon an army's flanks. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Three Lions] Reference
"I see," said Jimmy, capering like a springbuck. From Wordnik.com. [Actions and Reactions] Reference
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