"Oryx" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... now fairly naturalized in Texas and New Mexico, and the two-toed ostrich in South America; on the pampas of that continent travellers may meet with the gazelle, the springbok, the oryx, and the kangaroo. Elephants are domesticated and used for court occasions in Brazil, as they are in India. Tea and coffee are now largely cultivated in California, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. In exchange, the cinchona tree abounds more now in India than ...
— 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century • Henry Hartshorne
... gave us a black man, a corporal in one of the Nubian regiments, who was so renowned as a sportsman that he went by the name of "El Baggar" (the cow), on account of his having killed several of the oryx antelope, known as "El Baggar et Wahash" (the cow ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker
... got a gemsbok!" he exclaimed; "one of the most interesting of the antelope tribe. It is known also as the oryx." ...
— In the Wilds of Africa • W.H.G. Kingston
... was prepared; but as it consisted of a considerable number of dishes, and the meat was killed for the occasion, as at the present day in Eastern and tropical climates, some time elapsed before it was put upon table. An ox, kid, wild goat, gazelle or an oryx, and a quantity of geese, ducks, teal, quails and other birds, were generally selected; but mutton was excluded from a Theban table. Plutarch even states that "no Egyptians would eat the flesh of sheep, except the Lycopolites," ...
— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy |
