Hyenas of different species alternatively howled, chattered, and laughed, while jackalscontributed their snappish bark to the fear-inspiring din.
Unluckily, left hanging too low, the hyenas and jackals had dragged it down, and devoured it to the last scrap.
They were little more than skeletons now; for as he rode up to them nigh a score of jackals went scampering off, while twice that number of vultures rose sluggishly into the air.
When I came near a pack of jackals that had been worrying something under the tree slunk away.
For their fathers are jackals and their mothers without honor; and the sahib will doubtless bestow upon them the reward due to their valor.
The waters bathed her ankles, her knees, her waist, as she made a cup of her two hands and drank of the holy water; the jackals yelled from the far shore, and the unseemly body of a dead youth floated past face downwards a few yards away.
In the heat of the day nothing stirred, not even the air, though the distance shimmered and trembled with heat; but towards night jackals padded lithely from one rock shelter to another.
Jackals live together in troops, which are sometimes composed of more than a hundred individuals.
Several of the Jackalshave already felt his weapons.
I will reverse, if you like, the comparison, and say that the great territorial families of England, which were enthroned at the Revolution, have followed their prey like the jackals of the desert.
The jackals of the wilderness are gorged, The ravens weary with feasting.
Never were the jackals so fat as in the year when Jerusalem was encircled by the enemies of the Lord.
At night, he rode through bitter winds, or broke his fast with the inky outlines of jackals squatting about the rim of the immediate landscape.
Comfort thee; the jackals have ceased to haunt the place since their hunger was last satisfied, thirty years ago.
Desmond was for some time tormented by the doleful yells of packs of jackals roaming abroad in search of food.
Zebras uttered the absurd small-dog barks peculiar to them; ostriches boomed; jackals yapped; unknown birds uttered hasty wild calls.
During the whole of the day the Jackals lie concealed in their holes or hiding-places, which are usually cavities in the rocks, in tombs, or among ruins.
If any animal should be killed, or even severely wounded, the Jackals are sure to find it out and to devour it before the daybreak.
The jackals and vultures have eaten as much of the flesh as they can manage, and the vultures are sitting, gorged, round the stripped bones.
The wolves and jackals will follow the lion, and eat every soft portion of the dead animal, while the vultures will fight with them for the coveted morsels.
On the plain the high yelping chorus of jackals arose over the steady crack, crack of the enemy's snipers.
On looking to see what it was, I found several jackalsand pie-dogs mangling a horse that had strayed and been sniped.
Beyond the line of infantry that separated us from the Turk, some jackals howled in ghoulish song.
Soon the jackals scented the carrion, their peculiar wailing cry coming nearer and nearer.
Night came on; the cries of the animals began to be heard, and the jackals soon found out the carcass of the rhinoceros.
It seemed to him like a horrible nightmare, the long wail of the jackals taking the place of the cry of the fabled Banshee over the living dead.
Outside all was quiet save the usual cries of the jackals and hyenas hovering round the kraal, and the heavy breathing of the sleeping guard.
Heavy stones were rolled over the spot to baulk the jackals of their prey, and the old chief stood calmly by, finally escorting the party to their canoe.
The voices of the speakers as they conversed eagerly together, with the wail of the jackals and hyenas, the barking of the foxes, the snort of the hippopotami on the river bank, broke the silence of the starlight night.
All night long the lions were heard roaring, the cry of the jackals and hyenas showed that they too were very numerous, and several large snakes, one of them more than eight feet long, came within the light of the fire.
The best parts of the meat were brought into camp, and then the jackals and hyenas assembled in large numbers, holding high carnival, while the tusks, together with the panther and lion skins, remained as a memento of the night.
The rifles were loaded, and the whole party moved off once more, leaving the carcase of the grey pony lying in a pool of blood where it had fallen, to become a prey to the jackals and hyenas, those scavengers of the African plains.
And the poor child was so utterly alone, and her way lay through the desert where she might be attacked by dissolute soldiery or tomb-robbers or jackals and hyenas.
The discordant yelling of a pack of hunting jackals came from a little distance, breaking the perfect stillness.
The distant howling of jackals came closer and closer until, topping one long rise and descending into a hollow that was long enough and wide enough to be fully lit by the moon, they came to the place where the ambush had been laid.
The desolation before them to him seemed a land of promise, for he was entering it with Ruby, and in it there were thousands of wild duck, and jackals that slunk out by night among the stunted tamarisk bushes.
They say there's any amount ofjackals down there in the tamarisk bushes.
Then silence, broken only by the long howl of jackals gathering before their time round that scene of mutiny and murder.
Look there," said Oom Dantje, pointing to a couple of jackals slinking off into a small patch of scrub about two hundred yards ahead.
The sudden silence reminded him of what he had suffered during the night, before the jackalsclaimed fellowship with him, and passed the word of his initiation into their brotherhood across the listening Desert.
Around every nest that one finds are sure to be several jackals and white crows.
Bitterns stood by the stagnant pools and jackals skulked through the low bushes; but there was no sign of the caravan of the wise men, far or near.
By night the jackals prowled and barked in the distance, and the lion made the black ravines echo with his hollow roaring, while a bitter, blighting chill followed the fever of the day.
The horses were all picketed about; the men were lying here and there in the silvery moonlight, which lit up our tripod and kettle; and the jackals howled and capered as they sniffed the savoury bones.
Every night the jackals played round our tents in the moonlight, and made the ruins weird with strange sights and sounds.
The jackals are always ready to slight the dead lion.
The sun was still tinting the stone-coloured hills, the dark blue range of Moab, when a gong sounded through the rocks, and I saw flocks of jackals clamber up to the monastery to be fed, followed by flights of birds.
We could do nothing but wrap ourselves up completely in sheets, and walk up and down all night long by the camp-fires, while the jackals howled outside.
He was in despair, but his kindly nature would not let the poor brute lie there to be devoured by jackals and vultures, so he piled a mound of stones over its body and sat down to weep.
Their cry is like the voice of the cat and dog mingled together, and Im Faris knows some of the ditties which they sing to their children about the jackals and their fondness for chickens: You cunning rogues beware!
Do you hear the jackals crying as they come up out of the valley?
And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
There were others as furtive as Pansy prowling round the city walls; jackals searching for offal, snarled at her as she passed along, slinking away and showing teeth that gleamed like ivory in the moonlight.
A peevish wail in the night, came the cry of jackals prowling around the city walls.
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