cameleopard

• “The hero of Egypt has here carried his arms into a country inhabited by lions, cameleopards, apes, and elephants none of which animals are found in Nubia or Dóngola; the elephant and cameleopard inhabit the banks of the Nile towards Sennaar, the forests on the frontiers of Abyssinia, and the banks of the”

  Travels in Nubia

• “Caesar, in his third dictatorship, A.U.C. 708, showed a vast number of wild beasts, among which were four hundred lions and a cameleopard.”

  De vita Caesarum

• “Oh, no! he shan't -- I'll rescue him!' exclaimed Clara; and leaping up to her cameleopard attitude, she sprang forward, and, with a voice audible in an unlucky lull of the music, she exclaimed, 'Louis!”

  Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1

• “Clara here rushed upon them with her cameleopard gallop, sending her voice before her, 'Can you see them?”

  Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1

• “Zarráf" (whence our word) from "Zarf" = walking hastily: the old "cameleopard" which originated the nursery idea of its origin.”

  Arabian nights. English

• “The Elgin marbles have suffered no abatement of their marvellous beauties; and the coat of the cameleopard is with out a blemish.”

  How to See the British Museum in Four Visits

• “They were aware that the elephant, rhinoceros, cameleopard, zebra, lion and many other strange beasts ranged over its sandy deserts; but very little more about them than the fact of their existence was known.”

  Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley

• “A large bull cameleopard stood the nearest, every now and then turning his head to pluck a bunch of leaves from a branch which no other animal could have reached, but still apparently on the watch for danger.”

  In the Wilds of Africa

• “I think they must have seen me, or perhaps they took me for a cameleopard or ostrich; for”

  In the Wilds of Africa

• “I cannot recall a more delightful hour than that we passed in examining this curiosity, which was like handling and feeding, and playing with a living cameleopard, after having seen a dozen that were stuffed.”

  A Residence in France

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