roebucks
- plural of roebuck.
Example Sentences
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It is the birds in the trees, the insects in the grass, the roebucks and the stags in the coppices, and even the little fishes splashing the quiet water with their beating fins.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
Methinks the great king has issued out a proclamation strictly inhibiting the destroying of stags, does, wild boars, roebucks, or other royal game, on pain of death.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Why what do you take me for, good reader?—what can I possibly want with that?—I, who am about to knock over two roebucks and three wolves?
From Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Jesse, William
Wild boars were plentiful, roebucks not so, hares innumerable in some of our battues.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas
In passing through these deserts we saw certain wild beasts, such as asses, all white, roebucks, leopards, foxes, and many hares, a considerable number of which last we chaced and killed.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert
