Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
sambur .
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- noun Alternative form of
sambar .
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Examples
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For ornament there were a number of ‘Bonzo’ pictures, and the dusty skulls of sambhur.
Burmese Days 2002
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Leaving the elephants to graze freely the _mahout_ and his coolie disembowelled the _sambhur_ and hacked off the head with their heavy
The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly
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He had calculated on getting another couple of _sambhur_ stags to present to the _Deb Zimpun_ as food for his hungry followers.
The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly
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In one such spot Wargrave's eye was caught by a flash of bright colour, and his rifle went half-way to his shoulder, only to be lowered again when he saw two _sambhur_ hinds, graceful animals with glossy chestnut hides, watching the advancing elephants curiously but without fear.
The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly
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Other tiger-skins had joined the first; and, although he had not secured a second bison, several good heads of _sambhur_, _khakur_ and _cheetul_, or spotted deer, hung on his whitewashed stone walls.
The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly
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"Hiven hilp ye av ye bring any _sambhur_ flesh to the Mess, Wargrave," said Burke.
The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly
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A broad-horned sambhur to be killed, worthy of your honor's strength! '
The Lion of Petra Talbot Mundy 1909
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Higher up the twenty-foot walls, heads of sambhur, markor, and the lesser deer of the Himalayas showed dimly in the light of one lowered lamp.
The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906
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The sambhur lifted high his head again and spread the fan of one ear toward the wind, while one breathed twice.
Son of Power Zamin Ki Dost 1905
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One dawn, from a distance he watched a sambhur buck pause on the brow of a hill.
Son of Power Zamin Ki Dost 1905
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