Behind them were warriors decorated with gold and emeralds, wearing bright feathers in their gold head-dresses, and carrying mantles of jaguar skins over their arms.
The female jaguar had but just come into view when her mate was killed, and she darted at the serpent with a yell of rage which was answered by an angry hiss.
The boys could see that the boa's tail was fastened firmly around a tree, thus giving him a purchase such as the jaguarwould have difficulty in overcoming.
A few moments later another jaguar appeared, and the boys could understand that the boa was making haste to crush the first victim before meeting the second enemy.
He killed one jaguar easily; but this last beast will soon finish him," Teddy whispered, and almost before the words had been uttered the battle was virtually at an end.
They are a harmless sort of animal, and lead somewhat an unhappy life of it; for when they escape the crocodile in the river, they are certain to fall into the jaws of the jaguar on land.
In spite of the enormous jaws of the latter, the jaguar will leap towards the tail of the creature, tear open its side, and devour it even before life is extinct.
Peter and I knew that you would require a secure resting-place, where you might sleep in peace without the fear of being pounced upon by a jaguar or a puma," answered the skipper.
Both the jaguar and puma steal silently on their prey; and if one of them were to find us out, it might pounce down into our midst before we were prepared to defend ourselves.
We were going up to it when, not twenty yards off, a huge jaguar stalked out of the forest, and stood looking at us, apparently meditating a spring in our direction!
They then so fearlessly assail the jaguar with their sharp tusks, that though it may kill a few of them, it is usually pierced to death, or compelled to take to flight.
I did as he advised, merely holding my pointed stick before me; though I knew that had the jaguar attacked us it would have been of little more use than a toothpick.
We kept perfectly silent, as we hoped the jaguar would not only carry off the dying peccary, but a few of its living companions.
We had good reason, therefore, to be thankful that the jaguar had not found us busy at work with our backs turned towards him; in which case he would probably have killed one or both of us.
Casting my eyes in the direction in which he pointed, I beheld a large jaguar stealing cautiously along towards one of the peccaries which lay wounded on the ground.
We watched them with no small interest, expecting, however, that when they found they could not overtake the jaguar they would quickly return and again lay siege to us.
While Tim was at work, I kept watch in case another jaguar or any other foe should approach.
Ah, the blowpipe is a wonderful instrument; it will serve to kill anything, from a big tapir or a fierce jaguar or puma, down to the smallest manakin or humming-bird.
He saw a yellow object threshing about under the dense growth, and realized that he had given the adventurous jaguar something that was apt to wind up his career as a terror to the monkey hosts of the forest.
Another figure had appeared just ten paces farther along, and he realized that a second jaguar had crept out of the copse, evidently bent on charging the camp.
The name Ounce is from Buffon; but this specific appellation is also applied to the jaguar of America, the Jaguarundi, or lesser jaguar of Paraguay, and even to the Ocelot.
The jaguar and other beasts of prey take advantage of this habit, and often make victims of the whole tableau vivant!
I see no reason why such should not yet be discovered; he was perhaps not aware that the jaguar of Brazil, which comes next to the tiger, has been found black (Felis nigra of Erxleben).
Humboldt speaks of an instance observed by him on the Orinoco, where the fierce jaguar and some other creatures were seen quietly and peacefully floating together on the same log--all more or less frightened at their situation!
In many parts of South America, both jaguar and cougar attack man, and numerous are the deadly encounters there.
Stela D is particularly remarkable on account of the six squares of pictorial glyphs which follow the "Initial" which, in this case, exhibits the head and body of a jaguar in its centre.
In consequence of thisjaguar initial, Stela A becomes particularly noticeable, because one of the personages upon it has a beard, whilst the other is masked as an ocelot or jaguar.
The complete image of the dual State is thus shown to have consisted at one time of an ideal group consisting of a man with a beast of prey, a jaguar or ocelot.
The scene was momentarily illuminated by a shower of sparks raised by the jaguar when it struck the fringe of the embers.
It was a hopeless effort, for nothing could have saved him from those fierce claws, once the jaguar reached him.
Then, before Mr. Brewster could have possibly found time to grab his gun, thejaguar sprang!
Funny notion that a jaguar should be trying to eat a Wolf and a Black Bear.
Perhaps another jaguar will see the signal and give us a call.
In some of the countries south of the Isthmus the jaguar is a menace to the inhabitants, and settlements have been deserted because of them.
But we wouldn't have had the jaguar rugs coming to us," answered Peter.
The pampas were almost destitute of animal life before the horses and cattle of the Spanish invaders were there turned out to graze, and the puma and jaguar never came there until the herds of European cattle attracted them.
Deep silence prevailed through the wilderness, broken only at long intervals by the growling of the jaguar at the spring, or the barking of the prairie dog in his burrow.
The farmer, too, was happy; because a jaguar is very hard to find anyway; and the skin of this one made a very beautiful rug indeed.
The jaguar grew suspicious at these new words, and, rising part way on his hind legs, he growled: "Who is that you are talking to?
The farmer, meanwhile, had been taking careful aim; and just as the jaguar reached the ground, there was a loud report.
Pedrito flew up to a tree top and began to talk as noisily as he could, meanwhile looking in all directions to see if the jaguar were about.
But Pedrito was thinking how pleased the children in the family would be to see such a sleek jaguar coming in for tea.
The jaguar was very cross to see that this same parrot had come around again and with prettier feathers than before.
It happened that they needed a new mat for the fireplace in the dining room, and the farmer was very glad to hear there was a jaguar in the neighborhood.
And the children were very proud that their pet had trapped the jaguarso cleverly.
But the parrot never forgot what the jaguar had tried to do to him.
They agreed that when Pedrito saw the jaguar he would begin to scream to attract the beast's attention.
Before morning he saw the jaguar several times, but the puma renewed the contest with it again and again until morning appeared, after which he saw and heard no more of them.
Greatest among the carnivores are the two cat-monarchs of South America, the jaguar and puma.
I was told by some hunters in an outlying district of the pampas of its effect on a jaguar they started, and which took refuge in a dense clump of dry reeds.
One day the comandante of the district got twelve or fourteen men together, the tiger-slayer among them, and started in search of a jaguarwhich had been seen that morning in the neighbourhood of his estancia.
About the biggest and finest specimen of a black jaguar that ever ravaged a Mexican jungle.
He was heavier and more powerful than a tiger, and he knew that the jaguar often became a man-eater.
He raised himself just a little more, careful to make no noise, and watched the jaguar stealing through the tall grass, so intent on the horse that it failed to notice the most dangerous of all enemies who lay near.
First a jaguar had attacked him, and now another was stalking their horse.
He smiled, his lips drawing back from his white teeth, and in some singular way he made Ned think of the black jaguar and his black lips writhing back from his great fangs.
Even in death the great black jaguar was capable of inspiring terror.
He had shot the jaguar squarely through the heart.
The jaguar shot up into the air, as if an electric spring had been released, then came down with a thump and was dead.
The Mexicans might come, drawn by his shot, and even if they did not, a member of the unpleasant jaguar tribe might take a notion to stalk the only available human being in that grassy little valley.
You may come across the puma and the jaguar also, and be sorry you've met.
Yet, strangely enough, no puma norjaguar would ever even growl or snarl at Beeboo.
Next moment Roland fired, and with a terrible shriek the jaguar took to the bush, wounded and bleeding, and was seen no more.
Prowling wild beasts, the jaguar and puma, also hurried off at his approach, and many a scared bird flew screaming up into the darkling air.
Ever and anon these last would come closer to the tree, as they nibbled grass or moss, then those fierce eyes burned more fiercely, and the cat-like tail of a monster jaguar moved uneasily as if the wild beast meditated a spring.
There was a jaguar not far off, and a huge piece of sodden flesh lay near Beeboo's cheek, undoubtedly placed there by this strange, wild pet, while close beside her stood a tapir.
Fortunately, the tree was too small for the jaguar to climb so as to reach him in that way, while he hung just above the clutch of the brute as it sprang upward time and again in its furious attempt to seize its prey.
You saved my life, but it would have been better for me to have been eaten by the jaguar than to fall into the hands of Castro.
The jaguar had come along, and discovering him began at once its attempted attack.
Ronie was about to signify his assent, when an object nearly buried in the crumpled foliage and torn up earth where the jaguar had made its stand, caught his attention.
As quickly as this was done, the jaguarhad as quickly recovered from the effect of its disastrous jump, had wheeled about, and now crouched for a second leap, his maddening rage increased twofold by his recent failure.
The jaguar had not struck the ground a few feet away, flinging up a cloud of dirt where he landed in a heap, before Ronie had seized the firearm.
He had no time to think of this, or even to question whether the gun was loaded or empty before the dark form of the jaguar shot into the air, and the maddened creature came like a cannon ball toward the twain.
They choose low districts, as a rule, and rush into the safety of water when in danger from the jaguar or other beasts.
They are irascible, attack with fierce energy in concert, and are formidable foes to anything afoot, driving even the jaguar up a tree when the band turns on him.
The jaguar fell over on one side, clawing the air, and then recovered himself.
I believe the jaguar is the bigger, but the puma is the more formidable and fiercer.
The jaguar is more heavily built than the leopard, and stronger, with shorter legs, but it is spotted just as the leopard is.
One night, under the brilliant light of the moon, the boys saw a black tiger or jaguar drinking at the edge of the little creek in which their boat lay.
The jaguar would have kept you busy if the ant-eater hadn’t happened along!
If I see a jaguar I’ll fill him so full of arrows that he’ll look like a feather bed turned wrong side out.
I wanted to get that jaguar skin,” was the answer.
It surely is,” Alex confirmed, “and I move that we go back from the river a short distance and look up a jaguar or an ant-eater.
Illustration: THIS is a picture of the whole story of the Jaguar and the Hedgehog and the Tortoise and the Armadillo all in a heap.
Painted Jaguar darted out his paddy-paw just as Stickly-Prickly curled himself up, and of course Jaguar's paddy-paw was just filled with prickles.
Then they both curled themselves up and rolled round and round Painted Jaguar till his eyes turned truly cart-wheels in his head.
The snouty thing with the little eye that Speckly Jaguar is trying to climb over is the Armadillo that the Tortoise and the Hedgehog are going to turn into when they have finished bending and swimming.
They could hear Painted Jaguar roaring up and down among the trees and the bushes by the side of the turbid Amazon, till his Mummy came.
A little more expression, please, and don't grunt quite so much, or Painted Jaguar may hear us.
A Tortoise can't curl himself up,' Mother Jaguar went on, ever so many times, graciously waving her tail.
One beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar found Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-Solid Tortoise sitting under the trunk of a fallen tree.
Speckly Jaguar is looking over the edge, with his paddy-paw carefully tied up by his mother, because he pricked himself scooping the Hedgehog.
He stopped and saw a black jaguar grappling with a full-grown buck in a small opening between the trees.
The tapir started for the creek in the hope of knocking the jaguar off its back by rushing through the underbrush; not succeeding in this, its next hope was the water in the creek.
The huge black clubs of the Mangeromas fell again and again, with sickening thuds, piercing the heads and brains of the enemy with the pointed jaguar teeth.
The jaguar had felled the buck by jumping on its back from the branches of a tree, and, with claws deeply imbedded in the neck, broke its spine and opened its throat, when Francisco drew the bead on the head or neck of the jaguar and fired.
In one canoe the Chief and I sat on jaguar skins, while two men paddled.
Francisco has just killed one on his estrada while collecting rubber-milk; he will take you down to his barracão, and from there he will lead you to the spot where the jaguar lies, and there you can skin him.
It was nearing half-past five and the sun was low so we launched ourselves into the thicket towards the spot where the jaguar had been killed.
It came from the farthest depths and seemed as if it might well represent the mingled cries of some huge bull and a prowling jaguarthat had attacked him unawares.
This tameness may probably be accounted for, by the Jaguar having been banished for some years, and by the Gaucho not thinking it worth his while to hunt them.
A common method of ascertaining whether a jaguar is in the neighbourhood is to examine these trees.
The jaguar is killed, without much difficulty, by the aid of dogs baying and driving him up a tree, where he is despatched with bullets.
The Gauchos differ in their opinion whether the Jaguar is good eating, but are unanimous in saying that cat is excellent.
The jaguaris a noisy animal, roaring much by night, and especially before bad weather.
On their approach the grizzly bear hides at the extremity of its den; the jaguar bounds far away on seeing them; the eagle itself, which looks the sun in the face, flies from their unerring bullet.
The jaguar drew itself together and prepared to leap forward.
Not taking his eye off the jaguar he had first seen, he went back a few steps obliquely, so as to have his foes nearly opposite him, instead of standing between them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jaguar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
