A circle of brush fires will keep the lions andleopards away.
Night after night she had gone to sleep with the roars of lions and the hunting squalls of leopards for a lullaby.
There are nights that Maami will remember as long as he lives, when among the beasts that come to the pools his sharp eyes have counted wounded lions, leopards and elephants.
These weapons, ready for immediate use, were thrust between the bars as a menace to the leopards who were, very much against their wills, to be made to perform.
The situation was deservedly tense, and Ralph developed it with cautious care, making no abrupt movements, his eyes playing everywhere over dogs and leopards and the men outside with the prods and bars.
A few minutes later, one of his patrons, a tow-headed young man who was boarding and rehearsing three performing leopards at Cedarwild, was asking Collins for the loan of an Airedale.
Sometimes, when the leopards seemed better natured, Ralph even encouraged the two dogs to lie down.
All of which was provocative of great hilarity to the onlookers, while her squalls and cries excited the leopards to spitting and leaping against their bars.
After that the leopards accepted Michael as they accepted Jack.
It produces also leopards of great strength and courage, and the rhinoceros.
Camel-leopards are bred in these parts, but they do not in any respect resemble leopards, for their variegated skin is more like the streaked and spotted skin of fallow deer.
But of all wild animals, the leopards are the greatest jumpers, being able to hurl their lithe and beautiful bodies, curled up almost into a ball, to extraordinary heights.
The stillness now would be absolute but for a very curious sound, which comes out of the gloom beyond the big cage of leopardsand tigers.
This belt of country, running about a hundred miles along the foot of the Himalayas, is composed of forest and jungle, and is a favorite habitat of wild beasts--tigers and leopards and wild elephants.
The leopards seemed throughout the conflict sedulously to avoid a breach of the peace.
Hunting with Leopards "The leopards are each accommodated with a flat-topped cart, without sides, drawn by two bullocks, and each animal has two attendants.
Leopards eat goats; there might conceivably be fastidious leopardsthat cannot eat goats without salt; but a leopard does not take ivory tusks even to pick his teeth with.
Instead, there came complaint from the Akasava that "many leopards were in the woods.
If the leopards have not taken him, you will meet him on the road, because by this time he will have waked up.
Leopards will keep, thought Sanders, and, anyway, the Akasava were good enough hunters to settle that palaver without outside help.
In two weeks these leopards had carried off three score of goats, twenty bags of salt, and much ivory.
Once they came upon two leopards fighting; once they stumbled over a buffalo sleeping in their path.
One sported a shield showing three leopards in daffodils against a green background.
Those are the leopards of Jersey, the old Norman insignia.
Win stopped to look at the carved mantel over the great fireplace, sporting the leopards of Jersey, the Lisle coat of arms and the date 1509.
Leopards were not common thus far in; they clung to the rocks and hills in and near the colony.
We had been too hasty in concluding that the cubs we had seen belonged to the leopards we had shot.
The jackal lay in wait and the leopards drove the game to him.
When he had had as much as he could eat he came out and let the leopards begin their meal.
After going a short distance he saw golden leopards dancing, and directly he set eyes on them, he himself was changed into a golden leopard and began to dance with the others.
From that day tigers andleopards have eaten raw flesh; and cats bury their excrement, because of what the tigers had said.
So the leopards all jumped across the stream safely but when the jackal tried he fell into the middle of the water and was carried away down stream.
So when the leopards came up they found that the jackal had killed nothing.
And when the dogs barked he got angry and caught and killed one of them; and from that time tigers and leopards eat dogs.
The young leopards offered to carry the jackal over on their shoulders but the jackal was too proud to allow this.
But he was very frightened at what he saw; for the seats in the house were great coiled up snakes and on one side a number of tigers and leopards were crouching.
The skins of the larger birds the toucans, razor-bills and serpent birds are keeping very badly but those of the monkeys, leopards and antelopes are in better condition.
This is protected on all sides by a strong stockade twelve feet high for leopards abound and when game is difficult to find do not hesitate to enter villages and carry off people.
Footnote G: Maserier affirms that there are neither lions, tigers, nor leopards in Egypt.
Leopards and Panthers have often been confounded together, and are called Tigers by most travellers.
She had frequently to take journeys through the forest with the leopards swarming around her.
In a marvellous way it had been left by leopards and snakes, with which this bit of forest abounds, and, more marvellous still, the driver ants had not scented it.
She also started to accumulate stock, though the leopards were a constant menace.
It is one of the fairest of landscapes, but is the haunt of leopards and other wild beasts, and after rain the roadway is often covered with the marks of their feet.
We may, indeed, suppose that at first prey was sometimes attacked by leaping upon it from the branch of a tree, as leopards sometimes do; but the less our ancestor in his new career trusted to trees the better for him.
Hungry leopards often watch at the dusk of the day by the springs where women get their water and then leap upon them.
Yes," they all shouted, "let us kill all theleopards in the country.
In the twinkling of an eye, however, Rogala came out of the den holding two little live leopards by the neck.
I hope we shall kill leopards enough to have canines for a big necklace for him.
Rogala looked at me anxiously, and said: "Oguizi, if the leopards are on their way back with food for their little ones, we shall have a bad time.
I wondered again why theleopards were moving away from their lair.
Illustration: "Rogala came out of the den holding two little live leopards by the neck.
He himself wore one with twenty-four canines; so before me were the witnesses of eighteen leopards that he had killed.
Shinshooko was the speaker, and began thus: "Leopards have made their appearance in the neighborhood since you left, Rogala.
Severtsof also states that the enemies of the Ovis Poli are the wolves, [and Colonel Gordon says that the leopards and wolves prey almost entirely upon them.
I saw also the envoy of a certain Soldan of India, who had brought eight leopards and ten greyhounds, taught to sit on horses' backs, asleopards sit.
The leopards were kept in a ditch of the Castle of Amboise, and the name still borne by a gate hard by, Porte des Lions, is supposed to be due to that circumstance.
Black leopards and jaguars are occasionally, but rarely, to be met with; and this natural melanizm has been attributed to a larger proportion of iron in the blood.
Now, in these black leopards the distinctive pardine livery of the species is always present, and visible upon minute inspection.
It was always in the night that we had the disturbance of them, and sometimes they came in such multitudes that we thought all the lions and tigers, and leopards and wolves of Africa were come together to attack us.
Saw two sea leopards this evening, one in the water making short, lazy dives under the floes.
These are called lions and leopards because they look less like lions and leopards than anything else in the world; just as the harp seal is so called because he has a broad mark on his back, which doesn't look like a harp.
Three leopards passant guardant or, pelletee, appear on the arms of the Marquis of Downshire.
The supporters of the Earl of Northesk are two leopards reguardant.
Sable three leopardsrampant argent spotted sable are given as the arms of Lynch.
King Henry of England threeleopards as a present in token of his armorial bearings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leopards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
