The various species of oryx differ from Hippotragus by the absence of the white eye-tufts, and by the horns sloping backwards in the plane of the face.
Schoverling put down another oryx and a zebra, whose flesh the Masai delighted in, though it was too tough for the others.
Toward midnight a number oforyx were seen, their long, black, sword-like horns mixed with a herd of zebra.
To his vast delight, von Hofe's oryxbounded high and fell dead; it was found that both bullets had gone through the heart.
Owing to the circumstance that a measure of informal police protection had been afforded to the vicinity of Brabies during the previous two years, practically all the oryx in the desert had there congregated.
In hunting the oryx one has to follow a method opposite to that followed in the case of all other game.
The bodies of the oryx were out of sight; nothing was visible but their long and almost straight horns.
There, pacing towards us at a leisurely stroll, was a lordly oryx bull.
The moment was a critical one; should the paauw have taken alarm and flown, the oryx would undoubtedly have galloped straight out towards the plains as fast as his strong legs could carry him.
If one wished to stroke the back of an oryx one would have to do so from back to front, as the hair slopes in a reverse direction as compared with all other antelopes.
The herd of oryxsped on; I remounted and followed at a slow canter.
The oryx was crossing a strip of Kanya not more than twelve feet wide when the accident happened.
Hence it is far more easy to ride down a large herd of oryx than a small one.
The great oryx bull was now only about two hundred and fifty yards off.
That day our hunting was to be northward, for thither all the oryx spoor trended.
Were I to have pressed the oryx too hard, they would have again swerved to their right and rushed for the opening between Hendrick and me.
Five oryx emerged from a depression and stood at gaze about six hundred yards away.
A trained dog can thus easily bring an oryxto bay, and hold him engaged until the hunter comes to close quarters.
The oryx next became the subject of conversation, and Swartboy could tell more about it than any one.
The oryx when hunted does not, like many other antelopes, make for either water or cover.
A single touch of her claws brought the cow oryx to the earth, and ended the strife; and the lioness now stood over the victims screaming her note of triumph.
The oryx had been unable to extricate them, and would thus have perished along with her victim, even had the lioness not arrived to give the fatal blow!
Of course the oryx were also brought up to the camp to be skinned and cut up.
Arend and some of the others had read in several books of travellers that the oryxwas supposed to be the fabled "unicorn," derived from Egyptian sculptures.
The fourth species of oryxis the "algazel," (Oryx algazella).
But it afforded Groot Willem an opportunity of exhibiting his enormous strength; and the big boy, seizing the tow-rope, dragged the oryx after him with as much ease as if it had been a kitten at the end of a string of twine.
Of the oryx Congo knew very little, as the region most frequented by this beautiful antelope lies farther west than the country of the Kaffir tribes.
The oryx is a desert-dwelling antelope, can live without water, and grows fat even on the plants that thinly vegetate over the barren soil.
Egyptian sculpture is at best but a rude affair, and the peculiar curve and set of the oryx horns are difficult to depict.
The supposition of the oryx being the original of the unicorn rested only upon the fact that its horns when seen en profile appear as but one; and the unicorn is so figured on the Egyptian sculptures.
Defn: A large antelope of North Africa (Oryx leucoryx), allied to the gemsbok.
The oryx boldly defends itself when pressed by the hunters, is quarrelsome during the rutting season, and it is said that even the lion dreads an encounter with it.
While the final disposition was being made of the defunct rhinoceros I wandered over the edge of the hill to see what I could see, and fairly blundered on a herd of oryx at about a hundred and fifty yards range.
We finally debouched from the forest to the great clearing at the head of a most impressive procession, flags flying, oryx horns blowing, boys chanting and beating the sides of their loads with the safari sticks.
Down one of the slopes the growing half light revealed two oryx feeding, magnificent big creatures, with straight rapier horns three feet in length.
Finally, across a glade, not over a hundred and fifty yards away, we saw a solitary bull oryxstanding under a bush.
His course led him along a side hill about four hundred yards from where the oryx lay.
Moreover I passed years as ruler in the Oryx nome.
When there came years of famine, I arose and ploughed all the fields of the Oryx nome to its boundary south and north, giving life to its inhabitants, making its provisions.
The slightly-curved horns of the Oryx leucoryx (fig.
Koodoo gazed at them with looks of astonishment, but in a short time ran up to the little oryxand seemed to welcome it.
The height of the Oryx at the shoulder is between three and four feet, and its colour is greyish white, mottled profusely with black and brown in bold patches.
When, however, the Oryxis brought to bay, or wishes to fight, it stoops its head until the nose is close to the ground, the points of the horns being thus brought to the front.
In vain does the Oryxattempt its usual defence: the curved horns get more and more entangled in the elastic meshes, and become a source of weakness rather than strength.
Sleek oryx with horns like rapiers galloped off with even, gliding gait.
The herd I watched was not assailed; it cantered off; oryx and waterbuck came down to drink and also cantered off.
Having ridden half a mile, I discovered Cobus dismounted in a hollow, and no oryx in view.
Whilst deliberating in which direction to ride, I suddenly heard a pistol-shot, some distance to my left, which I knew to be Cobus's signal that the oryxwas at bay.
The oryx is found in herds varying in number from six or eight up to thirty or forty.
In many of the Bushman caves the head of the oryx is scratched in profile, and in that position one horn hides the other entirely.
In Syria, even up to the present day, I am told, a very near relation of the Oryx capensis is found; it is the habit of man in his hunting stage to try his hand at delineating the animals he lives upon.
This oryx was for a long time confounded with the Oryx beisa of the Somali country, which, however, does not range south of the Tana river.
A bull oryx is very often found entirely by himself, and occasionally with a herd of G.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oryx" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
