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" Mammiferes, whom thus to meet, free on his native plains, has fallen to the lot of few of the votaries of the chase. Sailing before me with incredible velocity, his long swan-like neck keeping time to the eccentric motion of his stiltlike... "
Narrative of an Expedition Into Southern Africa: During the Years 1836, and ... - Page 143
by Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1838 - 406 pages
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ...

1839 - 612 pages
...lofty pine — it was the stately, the long-sought girarte. Putting spurs to nly horse, and desiring the Hottentots to follow, I presently found myself...excitement, rattling at the heels of the tallest of all the mammifères, whom i Im- to meet free on his native plains has fallen to the lot of few of the votaries...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 17

1839 - 572 pages
...Putting spurs to my horse, and directing the Hottentots to follow, I presently found myself, half-choked with excitement, rattling at the heels of the tallest...velocity, his long swanlike neck keeping time to the eccentnc motion of his stilt-like legs ; his ample black tail curled above his back, and whisking in...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 64

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 pages
...many of which its graceful head nodded like some lofty pine — it was the stately, the long-sought giraffe. Putting spurs to my horse, and directing...swan-like neck keeping time to the eccentric motion of his stiltlike legs — his ample black tail curled above his back, and whisking in ludicrous concert with...
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The Magazine of Natural History, Volume 3

John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1839 - 656 pages
...many of which its graceful head nodded like some lofty pine — it was the stately, (he long-sought giraffe. — Putting spurs to my horse, and directing...swan-like neck keeping time to the eccentric motion of his stilt-like legs — his ample black tail curled above his back, and whisking in ludicrous concert with...
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Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Volume 3

1839 - 654 pages
...many of which its graceful head nodded like some lofty pine — it was the stately, the long-sought giraffe. — Putting spurs to my horse, and directing...the lot of few of the votaries of the chase. Sailing bofore me with incredible velocity, his long swan-like neck keeping time to the eccentric motion of...
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The Wild Sports of Southern Africa: Being the Narrative of an Expedition ...

Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1839 - 440 pages
...time. It passed rapidly among the trees, above the topmost branches of many of which its graceful head nodded like some lofty pine — it was the stately,...excitement, rattling at the heels of the tallest of all the Mamtniferes, whom thus to meet, free on his native plains, has fallen to the lot of few of the votaries...
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The Magazine of Natural History, Volume 3

John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1839 - 654 pages
...many of which its graceful head nodded like some lofty pine — it was the stately, the long-sought giraffe. — Putting spurs to my horse, and directing...excitement, rattling at the heels of the tallest of a!l the mammiferes, whom thus to meet, free on his native plains, has fallen to the lot of few of the...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 36

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 pages
...graceful head nodded like some lofty pine—it was the stately, the long-sought girafe. Putting spars to my horse, and directing the Hottentots to follow,...presently found myself half choked with excitement, raiding at the heels of the tallest of all the Mammifères, whom thus to meet, free on his native plains,...
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The Wild Sports of Southern Africa: Being the Narrative of an Expedition ...

Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1844 - 442 pages
...many of which its graceful head nodded like some lofty pine — it was the stately, the longsought giraffe. Putting spurs to my horse, and directing...chase. Sailing before me with incredible velocity, his Inno- swan-like neck keenino' time to the eccentric motion his back, and whisking in ludicrous concert...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 29

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1851 - 706 pages
...pine, all doubt was in another moment at an end — it was the stately, the long-sought giraffe, and putting spurs to my horse, and directing the Hottentots to follow, I presently found myself half-choked with excitement, rattling at the heels of an animal which to me had been a stranger even...
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