gazelle

• The second sentence was as follows: The knights of our troop were hunting a wild animal, called a gazelle (which is just like a roebuck). —  The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville
• I also found that while the gazelle is the most timid of animals, it is not the most cowardly He let his glance rest only casually upon Gernois after he had spoken, for he did not wish the man to know that he was under suspicion, or surveillance, no matter what he might think. —  Return of Tarzan
• 11 Where browse the fecho and the dun-gazelle Among the wild animals are prodigious numbers of the vari-colored species of the gazelle, the bohur sassa, fecho, and madoqua. —  Autographs for Freedom, Volume 2 (of 2) (1854)
• It was enough, no doubt, to represent the several parts of an ox or a gazelle--the shoulder, the leg, the ribs, the breast, the heart, the liver, the head, properly prepared for the spit; but it was equally easy to retrace the whole history of the animal--its birth, its life in the pasture-lands, its slaughter, the cutting up of the carcass, and the presentation of the joints. —  Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt
• The two new boys were dressed in moleskins, cotton shirts, and soft felt hats, and each had a gaudy handkerchief tied round his throat One was light, wiry, and graceful as a gazelle--a very handsome boy, the embodiment of lightness and activity. —  Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life

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