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- noun Plural form of
pallah .
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Examples
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I am inclined to believe this, because, though the antelopes, as the pallahs, etc., are frequently in separate herds, they are never seen in the act of expelling the males.
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Our children were frequently bitten, yet suffered no harm; and we saw around us numbers of zebras, buffaloes, pigs, pallahs and other antelopes, feeding quietly in the very habitat of the tsetse, yet as undisturbed by its bite as oxen are when they first receive the fatal poison.
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When it resolves to decamp, it lowers its head, and lays its horns down to a level with the withers; it then begins with a waddling trot, which ends in its galloping and springing over bushes like the pallahs.
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Buffaloes, zebras, pallahs, and waterbucks abound, and there is also a great abundance of wild pigs, koodoos, and the black antelope.
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A herd of reddish-colored antelopes (pallahs) stood on one side, near a large baobab, looking at us, and ready to run up the hill; while gnus, tsessebes, and zebras gazed in astonishment at the intruders.
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Several buffaloes, with their dark visages, stood under the trees on the side opposite to the pallahs.
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At sunrise a herd of pallahs, standing like a flock of sheep, allow the first man of our long Indian file to approach within about fifty yards; but having meat, we let them trot off leisurely and unmolested.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The path was well marked by elephants, hyenas, pallahs, and zebras, but for many a day no human foot had trod it.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The fact of killing the pallahs for food shows that the objection does not extend to meat in general.
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Bakalahari were found near them, and great numbers of pallahs, springbucks, Guinea-fowl, and small monkeys.
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