If, then, the panthers imagined that their kidnapped little ones were still alive, the furious quest on which they now set forth had a double object--vengeance and rescue.
THE THEFT From their cave in the cleft of Red Rock, where the half-uprooted pine-trees swung out across the ravine, the two pantherscame padding noiselessly down the steep trail.
Here among the great trunks there was less undergrowth to obscure his view, less danger of the panthers being able to steal up upon him and take him unawares.
The two panthers knew all that it concerned them to know about the man, except his object in robbing them of their little ones.
Having repeated this challenge several times without response, he felt sure that both panthers must be away from home.
So the panthers opened the door and he went out, and at once found himself alone in the woods again, and it was winter and very cold, with snow on the ground and on all the trees.
The lonely wayfarer is not often found there afoot, but men have been on the desert unmounted, and the panthers have come to play around them, too.
On the desert of Patagonia there are more panthers in proportion to the area and the numbers of other kinds of animals than in any other region of the world.
Individual panthers play by themselves--old ones as well as young--by the hour.
As the sheep ranches spread over Patagonia, the panthersare killed off as vermin.
A few skins of cattle and panthers and deer will serve for a bed when a blanket has been thrown over them.
Though, perhaps, rather lighter in color, they are in all other respects exactly like the panthers of the United States.
Panthers are knocked in the head with the bolas, and even stabbed to death with knives by the shepherds, though this last act is really dangerous.
Greenwood, a sheep-owner whom I met at Santa Cruz, had killed over 1000 panthers single handed, but in talking of the matter he said panther killing could not be called sport.
The blacks belonging to Rokoff's safari were terror-stricken at the thought of the proximity of the white giant who hunted through the jungle with a fierce pack of apes and panthers at his heels.
It was similar to that which he had heard panthers use after a kill when they had been hunting in pairs.
His words ran glibly and showed an off-hand mastery ofpanthers quite unequalled.
I'm not going to let one of those St. Lawrence panthers into this camp to-night if I know myself.
They approached carefully and cautiously, Ben explaining that "panthers sometimes lived a long time after they were dead," and soon they could see the motionless body before them.
The saying about thepanthers is in this letter of Cicero, who had set the panther-hunters to work.
Mr. Hibben considers hunting panthersand bears a terribly dangerous business that only intrepid heroes like him-self would undertake.
For panthers are fond of goats and sheep--they like them best of all meats.
As a young man, crowned with ivy and grape leaves; he sits in a chariot, drawn sometimes by panthers and lynxes, and sometimes by tigers and lions.
The sails and cordage suddenly appeared hung with grapes and ivy; spotted panthers lay at his feet, and when the terrified sailors tried to leap overboard, they were suddenly changed into dolphins.
These, and many other adventures with wolves and wolverenes, with panthers and peccaries, and porcupines and opossums, I might detail to you; but no doubt you are already wearied with the length of my story.
Old Cudjo leaped over the floor, whipping the panthers and wolf-dogs, and cutting various capers, while the very animals themselves howled with a sort of fierce joy.
Wolves and panthers drawn by the scent of food crept through the thickets toward the faint firelight, but they were afraid to draw near.
It was not quite dark when he arrived, and he found all as it had been except the tracks of twopanthers under the boughs to which he had fastened the big pieces of bear meat.
The panthers were little hunted, except in places where farmers had flocks or herds to protect.
Why," replied Paul, "all this country will be settled up some day, and how can bears and panthers and buffaloes roam wild on farms?
Owing to our severe climate panthers were never very numerous in northern New England--not nearly so numerous as panther stories, in which the "panther" is usually a Canadian lynx.
Neither lions nor panthers could climb over its precipitous sides.
The boy pricked the horse on the flanks with the broad Arabian stirrups and rode at almost breakneck speed, saying in his soul: "What are lions and panthers to me?
The man was in a small shack, and he often heard panthers screaming about the shack, and finally one night when he had some fresh deer meat in the shack, the man was awakened by some animal trying to pull up a roof board.
Panthers were much talked of and occasionally one would be killed by some hunter or trapper of which I will speak later.
It seems to me panthers are thicker here than wildcats in Pennsylvania.
I have often heard him say that he never head any kind of a noise that he thought came from a panther--and panthers were plentiful in this section in those days.
He told of two occasions where he had had adventures with panthers and they screamed fearfully.
It, however, occurred to me that if there were many more panthers in the cover, it would be very unsafe to return alone to where I had left my horse.
It came, and deer, bears, panthers were passing among us, madly flying before the dreaded unknown.
They did not dare to go out to see if they had caught the panthers, lest, having failed, the panthers might catch them.
Hardly had it become dark, when they heard the mewing of the panthers at no great distance in the forest.
At the same time a mewing at the door, and a snuffing at the side of the pen, showed him that he was a prisoner, with at least three panthers as his jailors.
But no panthers appeared; they had probably retired into the deep shadows of the hemlocks.
There are panthers down from the mountains; I saw one make a leap at a sick deer, as the sun was setting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "panthers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
