chetah
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The chetah is a great big cat But very quick, for all of that, She's cunning but she's gentle, too, And if you're good she's good to you.
From Animal Children The Friends of the Forest and the Plain by Edith Brown Kirkwood
Out rolled furs, many and many of them, black, and yellow, and striped--the pelts of the grizzly, of the leopard, the chetah, the royal Bengal himself.
From Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England
I'd told Ivy where I was going to spread the chetah and that after that I'd come straight home.
From It, and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris
A large Asiatic cat known as the chetah is somewhat used in hunting for sport, but the species has never been adopted in any definite way.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
There are two distinct species of the leopard in Ceylon—viz., the "chetah," and the "leopard" or "panther."
From Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
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