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Early in the mornings, out riding my horse, I imagined her dreaming of turquoise water and the taste of springbok.
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2014
Watched a cheetah hunt down and catch a springbok this morning..
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2011
Who would win in a fight between a lion and a springbok?
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2010
The menu features typical African dishes like springbok shank and Nigerian spice-rubbed beef cubes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2010
A stuffed springbok with horns and glassy amber eyes, stared at me from over the fireplace, and for a moment I forgot what I was going to say.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
Cleary Gottlieb bought legal-tech firm Springbok AI, bringing a team of AI engineers in-house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
There does, however, remain a Springbok in the room.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
Favre made it a double for La Rochelle and there were further tries from Aleksandre Kuntelia and former Springbok full-back Dillyn Leyds.
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
Many will feel Carley should have sin-binned Springbok fly-half Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu early in the first half when he turned and put his shoulder to Tommy O'Brien's head.
From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025
Springbok, duiker, and waterbuck hid in the shadows of musasas.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Witek finds giraffes, rhinos, hippos, baboons, one nasty-looking crocodile, wart hogs, kudus, wildebeest, mongooses, zebras, springboks, impalas but only a trace of lions — a half-eaten elephant carcass alongside a pond.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2010
All the springboks playing baseball, the pandas who controlled the big wooden slides, even the nerdy pangolins who played D&D in the shade of the library.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
They were neither gnoos, nor springboks, nor hartebeests, nor any of the common kinds that the party had already met with, and had hunted to their satisfaction.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
George and Matamo rode in pursuit and succeeded in killing a hartebeest and two springboks, the more dainty parts of which were cooked for the evening meal.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by Adams, H.C.
We have, however, still herds of antelopes of all kinds, springboks, gemsboks, elands, koodoos, hartebeests, and gnus.
From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by Adams, H.C.
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