Macpherson reached up, tore thekoodoo horns from the wall, placed the skull to his chest and charged with a terrible yell.
Another arched doorway led from the courtyard into the house, and over the apex hung a fine pair of koodoo horns.
I was there at the time, and on this occasion the wild dogs were driven off by some Kafir boys, who speared the koodooinside the shed.
Its horns almost exactly resemble those of a koodoo of eighteen months or two years old, though, if anything, they have a broader spread.
About a month later another pack of wild dogs drove a koodoo cow into a shed used as a stable, attached to a store near the Blue Jacket gold mine at Tati, in Matabeleland.
When my waggon-driver ran out with his rifle, both the wild dogs and the koodoo stopped and looked at him, the latter evidently very much distressed.
On further inquiry, I found that soon after midday a pack of those animals had chased the koodoo to within less than a hundred yards of the waggon, and then run it in a circle completely round it.
This lion was pursuing four koodoo cows on a cool cloudy winter's morning.
At last one of the turns in the fight brought me in view, and the koodoo dashed off again.
In the last struggle, while I was busy with the rifle, the koodoo had moved, and it was then lying against one of the fallen trunks.
Since the day he was kicked by the koodoo cow Jock had never tackled an unbroken hind leg; a dangling one he never missed; but the lesson of the flying heels had been too severe to be forgotten, and he never made that mistake again.
The thud of the bullet and the tremendous bound of the koodoo straight up in the air told that the shot had gone home; but these things were for a time forgotten in the surprise that followed.
I ran back for the rifle and followed, and he had already disappeared down the steep bank of the donga when, through the trees on the opposite side, I saw a koodoo cow moving along at a slow cramped walk.
It was a running fight from that on: the instant the koodoo turned to go Jock was on to the leg again, and nothing could shake his hold.
A glance back every few minutes to make sure that we were returning the way we had come was enough, and on we sped, confident for my part that we, were securely on the line of the koodoo and going straight for the waggons.
He did as he had done when thekoodoo bull tossed him: his head was round straining to get at the crocodile before he was able to turn his body in the water; and the silence was broken by a yell of wild delight and approval from the bank.
A herd of koodoo came crashing by; I know there was a herd, but only the first and last will come to mind--the space between seems blurred.
The koodoo holding its nose high and well forward, as they do when on the move, with the horns thrown back almost horizontally, was out of his reach and galloped heavily on completely ignoring his attacks.
The koodoo had been shot through the body, and even without being run to death by Jock must have died in the night, or have lain down and become too cold and stiff to move.
The koodoo lying partly on its side, with both hind legs hampered by the mass of dead wood, could not rise, but it swept the clear space in front with the terrible horns, and for some time kept Jock at bay.
No,' ses he; `I ain't so dead gone on Koodoo meat dese days nohow.
The Koodoois another large species, of which South Africa is the home.
The koodoo loves the shade of the forest, and especially delights to dwell on the banks of rivers--taking freely to the water and swimming well.
He promptly refused to pay, although his horses were overloaded with the finest skins, ivory, and the longestkoodoo horns I have ever seen.
He says there's a thundering big koodoo bull down in the Lumisana, one with record horns.
The worst of it is," went on Verna, "the record pair of koodoo horns can't be ticketed with my name.
Then they talked on about veldt-craft and forest-craft, eventually coming round to the record koodoo head, which Denham was dying to see.
Here koodoo were plentiful, with a sprinkling of the splendid sable antelope.
But I'd like to figure, if only in a rich man's private museum, as having shot the record koodoo in the world.
They were inspecting the great koodoo head in Ben Halse's yard.
If I do I'll go and stare at the big koodoo head and the indhlondhlo.
We will go after that big koodoo bull to-night, Undhlawafa," he said, rising to go inside.
So Ben Halse and the induna agreed to stalk the big koodoo bull with the "record" horns on the following night.
Then some fine day the record leaks out that we have been shooting koodoo on a Government game preserve without a permit.
One important item of the load was a case containing the record koodoo head.
Then he went on to expatiate on a very large koodoo bull that was always to be met with of late in the same haunts down yonder in the Lumisana forest.
I told father that it seemed a thousand pities my name shouldn't figure as having shot the record koodoohead of the world, even if it was only in a private collection.
It is a veritable swamp-liver, about the size of a goat, with long, brownish hair, and horns resembling those of the koodoo in miniature.
I remember one cold cloudy winter’s morning in Mashonaland coming suddenly upon a male lion, as he was chasing a small herd of koodoo cows.
It was the Dutchmen, who were out on the Koodoo Flats with their cattle.
Then I took along Kermit, who, in the case of the bongo and koodoo and Northern Sable, was able to supply the qualities that I once had had and now lacked.
It was during this expedition that one day whilst chasing four koodoo bulls Selous charged straight into one of the pitfalls made by the natives for trapping game.
On the first day Selous killed a splendid koodoo bull which he preserved, and shortly afterwards encountered numerous herds of pookoo and other antelopes.
The koodoo lives chiefly on buds and leaves and the young shoots of trees and bushes, and it is said that he is capable of going a long time without water.
The little koodooand zebra had, however, been safe in their pen, or they would probably have run off, and we should have seen no more of them.
We were very unhappy about you; but now you will soon be yourself again, and till you are well enough to go about, our koodoo will give you plenty of employment, for Chickango says he requires careful nursing, just like one baby.
The koodoo ran by her side, every now and then looking round into the zebra's face, as much as to ask how he liked it.
Koodoo gazed at them with looks of astonishment, but in a short time ran up to the little oryx and seemed to welcome it.
Now a huge buffalo would leap into the pit through the slender covering of rushes; now a tall giraffe would go toppling over; an active koodoo or gemsbok would spring over their heads, to fall hopelessly into the same trap.
In one pair of shoes thus made, with soles of buffalo hide and koodoo uppers, we have performed three journeys of eighty miles each, with quite enough intermediate walking to make up the 300.
The edges are then either buttoned to brass studs along the leer boom, or tied down with thongs of koodoo hide, stitched on for the purpose.
It is quite well to know that the marrow-bones slightly warmed afford most delicious food; the marrow of the ox is good, that of the buffalo is better, but that of the koodoo is the ne plus ultra.
There's an odd koodooor so comes sniffing around after that stuff, but the thorn fence humbugs them.
He would invariably be with him when a hunt was afoot in the wild and broken forest country they were then traversing; and for more than one successful find of koodoo or impala, Wyvern had to thank Mtezani.
Shortly afterwards the Greek stopped, and I noticed he had seen something; they were the koodoo we had been tracking up, though I did not see them myself.
They left her sawing through a big koodoo marrow bone with a hand saw.
Jan Kokerboom had shot a leopard one night, close to the camp fire, as it clawed down the venison of a koodoo which had been recently slain.
With respect to the period of development, Mr. Blyth informs me that there was at one time in the Zoological Gardens a young koodoo (Ant.
Both sexes, for instance, of the koodoo (Strepsiceros kudu) (Fig.
Well, I made no further remark, as the occasion was too solemn for talking, but merely led the way to where the koodoo had fallen.
By the time that we had finished our supper of koodoo steaks (which would have been better if the koodoo had been a little younger), it was time to get ready for Jim-Jim's murderess.
The koodoo was at the moment in the air, clearing a pile of stones with its fore-legs tucked up underneath it.
I called Harry to my side, and explained to him what I thought would be our best course, when suddenly, without any delay, the koodoo saved us further trouble by suddenly starting off down the hill like a leaping rocket.
Such being the state of things, it may be imagined with what alacrity they fell upon some koodoo flesh we had prepared; in fact I thought they would never stop.
On the death of the koodoo they broke the leg-bones, and ate the marrow warm, but not with cooking, for that is a preliminary which they entirely dispense with in enjoying this luxury.
On setting out, the direction we took was that where, between two shelving plains, covered with bright green vegetation, a sparkling river flowed; for the koodoo requires water.
The koodoo is much prized by the Kaffir, owing to the good flavour and tenderness of its flesh; and soon one was prepared for our eating.
Now of a sudden a great koodoo bull appeared for an instant standing out against the sky on the crest of the ridge, then vanished in the shadow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "koodoo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
