"Leopard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... served by groups of devils and giants, which preyed upon mankind in bleak and desolate places when night fell. In the ocean home of Ea were bred the "seven evil spirits" of tempest—the gaping dragon, the leopard which preyed upon children, the great Beast, the terrible ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie
... not notice the grey dust and the hearth full of matches and cigarette ends. She only saw what seemed to her fabulous splendour. A foxhound rose from the moth-eaten leopard-skin by the hearth as they ...
— Gone to Earth • Mary Webb
... the ruins of a small atelier. It lies nearly opposite the mouth of the Wady Tafrigh, which is bounded north by a hill of the same name; and south by the lesser "Shigd." Beyond it comes the Wady Nimir, the broad drain of the Jibal el-Nimir, "Hills of the Leopard," feeding the 'Afal: the upper valley is said to have water and palms. After a "leg" to the north-east (45 deg. mag.), they found the 'Afal running from due north; and one hour ( three miles) led ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... of the earth. And he shall smite the earth with the blast of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked one. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his lions, and faithfulness the cincture of his reins. Then shall the wolf take up his abode with the lamb; and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling shall come together, and a little child shall lead them. And the heifer, and the she bear shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the suckling shall play upon the hole of the asp; and ...
— The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old • George Bethune English
... figure, lithe as a leopard in his tight fitting trousers and jacket with his robe now discarded, went swiftly down the spider incline ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various
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