153 examples of jaguar in sentences

Probably he or his ancestors have found it pay as a protection; for no jaguar or tiger-cat, it is to be presumed, would care to meddle with anything so exquisitely nasty, especially when it is all over sharp prickles.

[U.S.], cougar, jaguar, puma. hag, hellhag^, beldam, Jezebel. monster; fiend &c (demon) 980; devil incarnate, demon in human shape; Frankenstein's monster.

Upon hurrying to the pilot house and making inquiries of Felipe he learned that, just as he suspected, the animal was a jaguar, the most feared inhabitant of the tropical forests away off at the headwaters of the Magdalena and Orinoco rivers.

It couldn't be that a jaguar has boarded us.

" "Wow! reckon now you must mean a yellow boy, a jaguar!

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.

Nearing Rheims we turned into a splendid straight highway bordered by trees, where the late afternoon sunlight filtered through the dead leaves, which still hung from the boughs and dappled the yellow road with black splotches, until it made you think of jaguar pelts.

I'll take the shine out of collar and pump, And their wearers will look silly When I once begin the Giraffe-Galump, The Chicken-Run and the Jaguar-Jump, The Wombat-Walk and the Buffalo-Bump, With a chamois vest on my manly chest, And football-boots and the smartest of suits They can cut in Piccadilly."

These include the jaguar, the great ant-eater, and the armadillo.

There was a scene of uproar and confusion, and the jaguar was forced to drop his prey and flee into the woods.

At last, on the edge of a patch of jungle, in wet ground, we came on fresh jaguar tracks.

Both the jaguar hounds challenged the sign.

We had the miscellaneous pack with us, all much enjoying themselves; but, although they could help in a jaguar-hunt to the extent of giving tongue and following the chase for half a mile, cowing the quarry by their clamor, they were not sufficiently stanch to be of use if there was any difficulty in the hunt.

The only two dogs we could trust were the two borrowed jaguar hounds.

Kermit, Cherrie, and Miller squatted outside the railing on the deck over one paddle-wheel and put the final touches on the jaguar skins.

In South America concealing coloration plays no more part in the lives of the adult deer, the tamandua, the tapir, the peccary, the jaguar, and the puma than it plays in Africa in the lives of such animals as the zebra, the sable antelope, the wildebeeste, the lion, and the hunting hyena.

In front rode our vigorous host and his strapping son, the latter also carrying a jaguar-spear.

The only mammal I saw on the walk was a rather hairy armadillo, with a flexible tail, which I picked up and brought back to Millerit showed none of the speed of the nine-banded armadillos we met on our jaguar-hunt.

Near Megasso a jaguar had killed one of the bullocks that were being driven along for food.

When specially hunting the jaguar, marsh-deer, tapir, or big peccary, an ordinary light repeating riflethe 30-30, 30-40, or 256is preferable.

The only animals that can be classed as dangerous are the jaguar and white-jawed peccary, and a 30-30 or 44 calibre is heavy enough for such game.

Bomba, the Jungle boy on Jaguar Island; or, Adrift on the river of mystery.

If an astronomerto take another illustrationwere told that de astronomia non est disputandum, and that the Namaquas, who believe that the moon is made of bacon, or the Brazilian tribes who think that an eclipse consists in an attempt on the part of a monstrous jaguar to swallow the sunhave as much right to their opinion as he has, he would consider the person who advanced such an argument either a wag or a fool.

Although he knew that the great jaguar was found in Peru, as well as the puma and black bear, the captain had not supposed it likely that any of these creatures frequented the barren western slopes of the mountains, but he now reflected that there were lions in the deserts of Africa, and that the beasts of prey in South America might also be found in its deserts.

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