Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "bushbuck"

Lexicographically close words:
buscar; buse; bused; buses; bush; bushed; bushel; bushell; bushells; bushels
  1. One of the prettiest bits in Siever's Kloof was the very spot whereon Blachland had shot the large bushbuck ram, and here the two had taken up their position.

  2. A fine bushbuck ram leaps lightly into the open, and as its large protruding eye lights on this unusual object, its easy, graceful bound becomes a wild rush.

  3. Rides will be cut in the woods, and when my friends come to stay we shall drive bushbuck and pig, and stalk tiger-cats in the forest.

  4. Also, I had no desire to meet a bushbuck ram, than whom no fiercer fellow for his size exists, at close quarters in his native haunts.

  5. Kreli was by no means taken in by the bushbuck horn and its contents.

  6. As to this"--here he produced the bushbuck horn sent by the Bomvana chief, and scornfully scattered its contents upon the ground, after which he hurled the horn away over the heads of his hearers.

  7. Bushbuck too were plentiful enough, but so wily in keeping to the dark woods and deep kloofs that unless we organised a drive the only chance one got was to stalk them in the early morning as they fed on the fringes of the bush.

  8. We had nearly reached the kloof we were aiming for when we had the good luck to get a bushbuck in a very unexpected way.

  9. We determined however to go on, and if we failed to get a trace of the tiger, to put in the day hunting bushbuck or wild pig, both of which were fairly plentiful.

  10. In the case of the Cape bushbuck the adult females have already lost all the stripes and most of the spots of the ancestral form.

  11. Our host seemed to be something more of a sportsman than most of his countrymen, and only the day previous to our arrival had shot a fine reedbuck ram, and a short time before a bushbuck ram, having killed both with buck shot.

  12. Lion was just about to spring upon him, when Little Jackal said softly: "Be still, do you not see that bushbuck on the other side of the rock?

  13. He went to a place where he found a bushbuck (imbabala) building a hut.

  14. The bushbuck answered, "You must not do it.

  15. On reaching the spot, where all now had foregathered, it transpired that Prior had turned over two bushbuck ewes, while Elvesdon pleaded guilty to shamefully missing a ram with both barrels.

  16. An old bushbuck ram is no end of a slim beast.

  17. They wouldn't have stuck you on a horse, and romped you about over all sorts of rough country, bushbuck hunting and all that.

  18. He had taken to so nicknaming Edala since the bushbuck hunt and she seemed rather to like it.

  19. But since the incident at the wind-up of the bushbuck hunt the estrangement had widened.

  20. She could shoot, too, and sometimes, when out with her father, would turn over a big bushbuck ram streaking across a small open space, as neatly as he could himself.

  21. Er--may I come and try for a bushbuck someday?

  22. There's a fair number of bushbuck in the kloofs--duiker and blekbok too, guinea fowl, and other small fry.

  23. It was a magnificent bushbuck ram--whose spiral horns, almost straight, looked of record length.

  24. A bushbuck with fifteen-inch horns is considered a fine prize, although horns of nineteen inches are on record.

  25. The bushbuck is the smallest, and is found over nearly all of East Africa except upon the open plains and deserts.

  26. Sometimes we have kongoni steaks, at other times we have the heart of waterbuck or the liver of bushbuck or impalla.

  27. They had left the main body to get up a bushbuck hunt on the banks of the Bashi.

  28. The insane idea of bushbuck hunting in a small party in an enemy's country, then venturing across the river right into what was nothing more nor less than a not very cunningly baited trap--all was due to his truculent fool-hardiness.

  29. We are bound to get a bushbuck ram or two in some of these kloofs.

  30. The bushbuck is the largest of the smaller antelopes, the male standing higher than a large goat.

  31. It is a young bushbuck ram, and as it crosses the open Claverton waits till it has just passed him and fires.

  32. The crashing of the underwood draws nearer and nearer, and a large bushbuck ram breaks cover.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bushbuck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.