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Examples
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But the great sport was to stalk bush-buck in the thickets, which is a game in which the hunter is at small advantage.
Prester John 2005
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I have been knocked down by a wounded bush-buck ram, and but for Colin might have been badly damaged.
Prester John 2005
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He must abstain from many foods, such as eggs, birds of all sorts, mutton, dog, bush-buck, and so forth.
Chapter 60. Between Heaven and Earth. § 1. Not to touch the Earth 1922
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He must abstain from many foods, such as eggs, birds of all sorts, mutton, dog, bush-buck, and so forth.
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We tramped a great deal of bold, rugged country, both in cañon bottoms and along the open ridges, but found only a rhinoceros, one bush-buck and a dozen hartebeeste.
African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909
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The bush-buck we jumped occasionally quite near at hand.
African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909
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Besides these common species were bush-buck wart-hog, lesser kudu, giraffe, and leopard.
African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909
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But the great sport was to stalk bush-buck in the thickets, which is a game in which the hunter is at small advantage.
Prester John John Buchan 1907
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I have been knocked down by a wounded bush-buck ram, and but for Colin might have been badly damaged.
Prester John John Buchan 1907
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Hartbeest, reedbuck, the maned and huge-eared roan antelope, gazelle, and bush-buck, all were here, skull or mask, dominated by the vast head of the wildebeest, with ponderous sickle-curved horns.
The Pools of Silence 1907
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