It would have taken a springbok to have leaped out of it; and no quagga could possibly have cleared itself from such a pit.
In vain the quagga tried to get out by the most desperate efforts.
He was curious moreover, to find out whether his own quagga was quite equal to any of its old companions.
No; the big, solid-hoofed antelope that eats like nylghau or quagga.
Their colour is bay, marked more or less like the quagga in a darker tint.
Hendrik's eye was upon him; and in a moment the quagga was turned upon his track.
The quagga and striped quagga, as you may see, have the ears of a horse, while the zebra has those of the ass.
Was he jealous about his quagga's speed, and determined it should beat all the others?
As I spoke the quagga turned his head and very nearly caught him by the arm.
quagga trembled like an aspen, and did not dare lift his eyes from the book.
zebra-like South African animal, 1785, from Afrikaans (1710), from the name for the beast in a native language, perhaps Hottentot quacha, probably of imitative origin. In modern Xhosa, the form is iqwara, with a clicking -q-. What was likely the last one died in an Amsterdam zoo in 1883.
