" "Yes; but you killed the panther," said Hal.

"It will be a disgrace to you," he writes in one of them, "that Patiscus has sent ten panthers to Curio, and that you should not send me ten times as many."

As well attempt to elude a panther by flight!

The tribes held in reverence both the panther and the rattlesnake.

After having imported the reindeer from Lapland, which did not succeed in their temperate climate, and the pheasant from Tartary, with which they stocked the woods, they imported with greater success the panther and the leopard from Africa, which were used for furred game as the hawk was for feathered game.

We packed the carcass into camp and while removing the skin, Nat took occasion to congratulate me, on being able to so perfectly imitate a fawn as to lure a panther from its lair; advising me however, to give up deer-stalking until I struck a better streak of luck.

Suppose you were to meet a black panther down here in the willows?" "I wouldn't give a damn if I had my Winchester with me.

Who wants to pat panthers on the way to dinner with pretty women and distinguished men?

The average person would have recollected distastefully that unusual panther and that discomfortable night-porter and the madness which had smitten Duke Asmund's men, and the clattering vicious little hoofs of the shrill dwarfs; and to the average person this room would have seemed a desirable place to be many leagues away from.

And all the while Aja watched her, as if fascinated by a serpent, saying within himself: She moves like nothing I ever saw, save a panther or a gliding snake.

I mind de time when a negro wuz comin' through de woods one nite, when he seed a panther about to spring on him.

The Onondaga in the next three or four days shot a large panther, a little bear, and caught in the traps and snares a quantity of small game.

Yes, spotted panthers.

Then I knew I had no mission for taming panthers.

Ah wuz skeered uv bears an panthers so ah crawled up in a ole bandoned crib an crouched down gainst de loft.

The Ludi Cereales certainly included circenses, and plays are only mentioned as forming part of their programme under the Empire; but on the last day, April 19, there was a curious practice of letting foxes loose in the Circus Maximus with burning firebrands tied to their tails,a custom undoubtedly ancient, which may have suggested the venationes (hunts) of later times, for one of which Caelius wanted his panthers.

She was always tall, but now she seemed lofty, and to combine the supple panther with the erect peacock in her ireful march.