sambur,
- a variation of sambar.
Example Sentences
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The foothills on which we were camped are low wooded ridges rising out of open cultivated valleys, which often run into the jungle-filled ravines in which the sambur sleep.
From Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Andrews, Roy Chapman
The stupendous wave of dust and waving trunks and galloping black bulks thundered up at a terrific pace, and fell with irresistible impact upon the flank of the marching sambur.
From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
On one of our hunts my wife and I discovered a water hole in the midst of a dense jungle where the mud was trodden hard by sambur, muntjac, wild boar, and other animals.
From Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China by Andrews, Roy Chapman
But presently the whole colossal array brought itself 311 to a halt, got itself turned to the left, and went thundering off on the trail of the sambur remnants.
From In the Morning of Time by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
A herd of deer—either the dark sambur or black buck—sprang from the misty shore-line and leaped away into the bamboos.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various
